Beetle Kill Removal Hits Another High Profile Area

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Beetle kill logging along the 5th Avenue Corridor began last year, and has resumed


The City's winter beetle tree removal program resumed just after Christmas...

This week, it's the beetle-kill trees lining the 5th Avenue corridor between Tabor Boulevard and Kerry Street that are being selectively logged.

The program to deal with the ravages of the mountain pine beetle began last year with a total of 220 truck-loads of beetle-killed pine being removed from city-owned land (for complete details, click here).

After receiving council's stamp of approval earlier this month, city staff has submitted an application for a Community Forest Licence to log the 3,000-hectares of crown-owned land within Prince George limits in a bid to reduce the fire hazard posed by the dead trees.

School District 57 has been "piggy-backing" on the city's tree removal program...most recently removing dead trees from the John McInnis school yard.  The district's cost is pegged at $214,000.00 this year and the School Board has written to the Ministry of Education seeking extraordinary funding to cover the costs (for more on this story, click here) 

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