Exciting news! 🌲🔥 Last week, we kicked off our wildfire risk reduction efforts on the Mt Buchanan Fire Access Trail! Over the next month, we’ll be hard at work in the area, focusing on 10 hectares with a keen eye on the trail (TU1-J), and TUs 1-A, 1-B, and 1-H this fall and winter. Thanks …
Wildfire Risk Reduction: Mt Buchanan Trail Work in ProgressRead More
You are invited on a guided field tour to Keen Creek with the Kaslo & District Community Forest Society. Saturday September 30th 10:00 am to 2:00 pm This tour will be focused on the impact from the 2022 Briggs Creek forest fire and the harvesting to salvage timber in that area. Meet at the Kemball Memorial …
KDCFS operations to salvage fire damaged timber from the Briggs Creek wildfire have begun. Sunshine Logging started road construction by Kemp Creek to access CP 52-01. This block is 30ha but has been reduced to three 5ha patches that will be harvested this year by a winch assist system. The remainder of the block has …
After watching the Briggs Creek wildfire burn down the Nashton Face last summer it reinforces thataccess is critical to enable crews to combat fires and the need for us to proactively manage for wildfirerisk reduction and plan for future forest fires. KDCFS has received funding for multiple wildfire riskreduction projects through the Forest Enhancement Society …
KDCFS has developed several blocks on the Nashton Face behind the Kaslo dump and in Keen Creek to harvest timber damaged from the Briggs Creek wildfire. The block locations can be seen on the overview map. The Briggs Creek fire burnt area as well as our fuel mitigation projects can be seen on the Briggs …
Read the article here: https://www.canadianbiomassmagazine.ca/b-c-community-forests-get-funding-for-wildfire-risk-reduction-projects/
B.C. community forests get funding for wildfire risk reduction projectsRead More
We invite you to join our next Board meeting on Thursday Jan 12th 2023. In person in the Loki Room at the Langham @ 7pm or via Zoom. Link to ZOOM Virtual Meetings: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6949720471 The Board welcomes input from the public during a five minute consultation period at the end of each meeting. Please visit one …
Road Building We are currently extending the Branch 7 road 3km up towards Blue Ridge. The work is being completed by Sunshine Logging and will provide access further up Mt Buchanan to complete our FESBC funded landscape level fuel break next year. Briggs Creek Fire Timber development on the Briggs Creek fire in both Keen Creek and …
We invite you to join our next Board meeting on Thursday Nov 17th. In person in the Loki Room at the Langham @ 7pm or via Zoom. Link to ZOOM Virtual Meetings: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6949720471 The Board welcomes input from the public during a five minute consultation period at the end of each meeting. Please visit one of …
Join us on Oct 29 at 10am
Due to our logging activities producing only a few loads of firewood this year the Kasloand District Community Forest Society is selling firewood by the cord with a limit of 3 cords per person.The first-come, first-serve list is open to individuals from within Kaslo and Area D. Price: $350/cordincluding delivery within Kaslo. Call (250) 353-8534 …
