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Kaslo – Shutty Wildfire Corridor Update
Wardner Trails re-opened
![Storm damage](https://b2355506.smushcdn.com/2355506/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/1-1024x768.jpg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1)
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KDCFS Forestry Crew -Training and Employment
*Application Deadline Extended to May 31st, 2021
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2021 Wildfire Risk Reduction (WRR) funding released
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2021 AGM April 14: Resolution Results
Thank you all for a successful meeting !
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Our 2021 AGM will be a ZOOM meeting and we will be voting on 4 Resolutions (scroll down to ads)
ZOOM AGM Housekeeping:
Advance AGM pre-registration is appreciated. Please email us: manager@kaslocommunityforest.org
- If several members zoom/call in from the same household, please use separate devices, so that every member can vote individually. Note: if you call from a landline you may not have functionality to vote.
- You will be muted on entry and unmuted for question periods.
- You may also use the Chat Box during presentations to place your questions.
- We ask that you email us (manager@kaslocommunityforest.org) the questions you may already have prepared prior to the meeting as it keeps the ZOOM session more manageable and flowing.
- New members and guests who are not qualified to vote in this AGM will be send to a virtual breakout room during voting.
- Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have questions about the event.
- Your ZOOM link to the meeting is
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6949720471
If you call by phone your Meeting # is 6949720471
- Please test your connection beforehand. You may be required to download an App to participate.
How-to-Join-a-Zoom-Meeting-by-Telephone
Meeting Documents
2021 Membership Form
KDCFS 2020 Annual General Meeting Minutes
2021 AGM Agenda
2020 Annual Financials
2021 Membership Form
Director nomination form 2021
For orientation: see below information from the 2020 AGM.
We have held a successful ZOOM AGM on September 16. Thank you all for joining.
2020 AGM Agenda
2020 08 26 Minutes
2019 Annual Financials Complete
2020 AGM Director’s & Treasurer’s Report
Schroeder Creek Wildfire Project
Schroeder Creek Wildfire Project
CP 42 BLK 7
December 3, 2020 – March 3, 2021
Funded by FESBC
Implemented by the Kaslo and District Community Forest and Timber Ridge Contracting Ltd – Kaslo
Shane McKinnon on reconnaissance. Equipment: Feller Buncher, Linkbelt 3240 Excavator w/ Bucket, Thumb and Grapple; Cat 525 Grapple Skidder, D4 Hi-Drive Bulldozer; Cat 518 Line Skidder.
A diseased and down layer of lodgepole pine killed by beetle in a previously high-graded and species limited stand of predominantly hemlock.
Conner wading through the pile & burn treatment
Installing a fuel free zone along the residential interface
Lost teeth and racking up the hours
Choices for mature retention were limited by stand condition
This project made possible by FESBC and much appreciated by the residents of Kaslo & Area D.
2021 Kaslo Wildfire Corridor Operations – the End in Sight
We have returned to Branch 7 for the spring to finish the remainder of the permitted blocks in the Kaslo-Shutty Wildfire Corridor CP43.
Here is an outlook where the action will be, with approximate timeline.
We are nearing completion of Block 4 at 4 1/2km on Branch 7. The snow is melting quickly. Branch 7 remains closed to traffic from 4km up during the week, with harvesting in progress until approx. April 21. Gazetted Mt Buchanan recreation trails will remain open. Trails adjacent to Block 4 are closed (Trump, Bigfoot), are still under snow and will require clean-up after log decks are removed. Please watch for equipment and logging truck traffic on the spur, as we are nearing completion of CP43 and equipment will move off the mountain sporadically.
The post-harvest clean-up contracts have not been tendered yet by the Ministry of Forests. We anticipate completing the harvesting in the middle of May. Clean-up /residue piling will follow but pile burning will have to wait until the fall. We will update the timelines here as well as on Facebook.
Here a recent glimpse of our work in Block 1: