Burning to reduce hazard

Some burning will be taking place near Vernon this week.

As part of the Silver Star Provincial Park Wildfire Hazard Reduction Project, remaining bush piles will be burned to reduce the wildfire hazard.

The burning will be carried out by Ministry of Environment contractors and is weather dependant.

The burns are required to reduce interface wildfire threats to Silver Star Mountain Resort and the park’s recreation facilities caused by the mountain pine beetle infestation in the southwest corner of the park.

The British Columbia Transmission Corporation, which has an existing right-of-way through the Campbell Brown Ecological Reserve for its transmission power line, will begin piling and burning felled hazard trees in the ecological reserve next week to reduce the wildfire hazard.