Features Forestry Management Harvesting
B.C. wildfire season start hits 10-year high

April 20 ,2016 - The wildfire season this year in British Columbia has begun in a hurry with 132 fire starts and more than 10,000 hectares already burned, according to a report in The Globe and Mail. 

The article states that 50 of the fires to date have taken place in the Prince George Fire Centre, accounting for more than 9,000 hectares burned.

To read the full article, click here.  

To learn more about wildfire strategies in Western Canada taken from lessons learned in 2015, click here. 

April 20, 2016  By  Andrew Snook