City Applies to Log Crown Land
Friday, August 26, 2005 04:01 AM
Mountain Pine Beetle damage at golf course one of the most visible areas of Pine Beetle kill in the city
The City of Prince George is taking the necessary steps to apply for a “Community Forest”. Basically, that would give the City the right to log Crown Land.
At issue is the large amount of pine beetle trees, which form a “significant” fire hazard to the City “We all saw what happened in Kelowna when you have an Urban area with a tinder dry forest” says Kim Menounos, Urban Forester with the City of Prince George. “With the number of dead, red trees, we need to increase our fire break to reduce that hazard here”.
The Ministry of Forests advised Prince George last spring to apply for the Community Forest designation in order to handle the pine beetle epidemic. Part of that process calls for public support for the effort. “We need to prove to the Ministry we have the public behind us in this application” says Menounos.
Public consultation meetings have been planned for the middle of September, and if all is approved, logging of the pine beetle kill on Crown Land within the City Limits could start in January.
Menounos says they have identified about 3,000 hectares of Crown forest which need to be dealt with, that’s about one tenth the size of all Prince George.
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Posted by: owl on August 26 2005 10:26 AM
Better get a few studies in by January 2006. That'll be the first cost , and who knows where it will go from there????
We will have a shortage of skilled loggers by then-so might have to import some high priced tree fallers.
Does the city get to sell the beetle killed trees, or are they donated to Canfor???
Bet the citizens in this city have lots of questions about what this plan is going to cost them??
Get right on it folks!!!!