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A four-month-long project in northeastern British Columbia – in which low-grade residual wood fibre was harvested for pellet production through funding

After wildfire burns through a forest, a lot of debris and charred trees are left behind—which is true of the Elephant Hill fire in 2017. Often this

“FESBC was allocated $3 million from the provincial government as a part of its StrongerBC For Everyone: B.C.’s Economic Recovery Plan to deploy to projects that would increase the utilization of wood fibre throughout the province,” said Ray Raatz, RPF, Operations Manager, FESBC. “The submission from Duz Cho Logging and Canfor Energy North was well thought out and we collectively could envision how it might be a catalyst for more of this kind of work in the Northeast region of B.C.” T...

A two-year project to reduce the risk of wildfire west of Clinton is almost finished. Forest Enhancement Society of B.C. operations manager Ray Raatz says fuel mitigation has been done in three areas near Big Bar Lake, totalling 50-90 hectares in size. He says all that’s left to do is slash pile burning. He says some of the forest stands treated there were “very similar” to stands that burned in the Elephant Hill wildfire, which charred 192,000 hectares of land in 2017, in the Thompson Pl...

Photo courtesy FESBC. Zanzibar Holdings Ltd. and the community of Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation (St-wet-lem hight-lem) (SXFN) have partnered to reduce wildfire risk to the rural communities of Big Bar Lake, B.C., with funding support from the Forest Enhancement Society of BC (FESBC). FESBC provided close to $625,000 toward two projects in the Cariboo region, both of which are nearing completion and are focused on reducing wildfire risk in forested areas near Big Bar Lake, which is locat...