Urban Logging

Thursday, May 04, 2006 04:00 AM

Stretch of roadside along North Nechako Road, has become an urban logging operation

The City of Prince George continues removing beetle killed trees from municipal property and waits for word on a community forest license that would allow it to move forward and remove trees from crown land within city limits. The removal of the beetle kill is crucial as a means of preventing serious damage from wildfires.

The City of Prince George Manager of Environmental Services, Mark Fercho says not only is the removal of the trees important, but the removal of the debris once an area has been logged is critical. All left over materials are now chipped and Fercho says just recently an agreement was reached with BC Hydro to make sure debris is dealt with when trees are cut back from power lines.

In a recent presentation to the Regional District, Fercho says its important the District communicate with the Ministry of Forest and Range to direct resources to the area to continue dealing with the removal of the mountain pine beetle impacted trees. There are still two areas Fercho says need treatment. One is on Cranbrook Hill, the other, along North Nechako. Both fall under the jurisdiction of the Regional District, but both pose a fire threat to the City.

This weekend, the first Forestree event will be held. Saturday from 10 a.m. till 2 p.m. at the Railway and Forestry Museum, its the kick off event to another season of planting new trees.

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Posted on Thursday, May 04, 2006 04:00 AM in News by 250 News

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Comments

Posted by: acrider54 on May 4 2006 6:07 AM

Sad. Except for fir and balsalm PG will look like a bald rolling prarie. Looking much like Alberta, maybe the provincial tax will go away. lol

Posted by: kimbo on May 4 2006 1:33 PM

With two Registered Professional Foresters, Arborist and Mark Frecho with all the balarney you can handle its a great job. They logged a park ajacent to our property and i mean logged. Before they arrived we were given an information package that told us juvenile pine, fir, Spruce and any understory would be retained. After the loogging operation was completed all but a few spruce ans fir remained. When I complained to the City Manager that the understory all juvenile pine had been removed his response was unfortunatley some of the under story was lost.Not a word was said about what they had told us and what actually happened.
And why is the City going to logg crown land. I would think that is the responsibility of the Provincial Government. The City is unable to manage the infistructure that we have. Would it be about building empires I wonder