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Originally Posted by DoubleK
I got my forestry degree in 2003.
I disagree with everything you have just posted.
To accuse the BC government of 'not learning' and loosely implying of them doing nothing is laughable.
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Did you get your degree from the back of a match book?
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/nature/scien...rojet-projects
Banff National Park
Dormer Valley
Date: Spring/Fall
Size: 6,800ha
Location: Within the east slopes area of Banff National Park, directly adjacent to the east park boundary approximately 45 km north of the Banff townsite.
Additional Details: The goal is to safely use fire to restore habitat. Parks Canada will use prescribed fire in the Dormer Valley to meet ecological and operational objectives. This fire will contribute to the restoration of open forest and grassland meadows by reducing the encroachment of conifer species caused by decades of fire suppression. These meadows provide critical year-round habitat for mountain sheep, goats, grizzly bears, wolves, elk and potentially bison.
Moose Meadows
Date: Spring/Fall
Size: 100ha
Location: In the middle Bow Valley in Banff National Park along the Bow Valley Parkway, 26 km west of the Banff townsite.
Additional Details: The goal is to safely use fire to restore habitat and create a fuel break for the Banff townsite. The Moose Meadows prescribed fire is a key component of a valley wide fuel break in the middle Bow Valley. It will help mitigate the spread of wildfires, and will assist in the maintenance and restoration of native grassland habitats important to wildlife.
Harry's Hill
Date: Fall
Size: 25 hectares
Location: Adjacent to Harry's Hill subdivision near the hamlet of Lake Louise.
Additional Details: The Harry's Hill prescribed fire will help maintain the safety of residents by strengthening pre-existing firebreaks and increasing the security of the Bow Valley Corridor against significant wildfire events. In addition, the Harry's Hill prescribed burn will enhance wildlife habitat and help to restore native meadow vegetation.
Baker Creek
Date: Fall
Size: 800 hectares
Location: 10 km east of Lake Louise on the north side of the Trans-Canada Highway.
Additional Details: The objectives of this prescribed fire are to increase grizzly bear habitat quality, reduce mountain pine beetle susceptible trees, contribute to historic fire cycle objectives by restoring an area of young fire generated forest and enhancing natural barriers to fire spread.
Alexandra
Date: Fall
Size: 1,571 hectares
Location: West of the Icefields Parkway in the north of Banff National Park, near the Jasper border
Additional Details: The goals of this prescribed fire include re-establishing early seral forest, contributing to area burned goals, enhancing grizzly bear habitat and restoring whitebark pine habitat.
Kootenay National Park
Redstreak Mountain
Date: Spring/Fall
Size: 235ha
Location: Adjacent to Redstreak Campground in south Kootenay National Parks Canada Agency
Additional Details: The purpose of the Redstreak Mountain prescribed fire is to protect people and property from wildfires by reducing forest fuel loads in the vicinity of Radium Hot Springs, and to restore grasslands and associated habitat traditionally used by Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep and other wildlife.
Vermilion Guard
Date: Fall
Size: 75ha
Location: The northeast corner of Kootenay National Park, 2.4 km west of the continental divide and the border between Banff and Kootenay National Parks.
Additional Details: The purpose of the Vermilion Guard prescribed fire is to enhance barriers to fire spread and enhance habitat for whitebark pine and grizzly bears by re-establishing an early seral forest.
Glacier National Park
20-Mile
Date: Fall
Size: 3200 ha
Location: Southern Glacier National Park within the Beaver Valley
Additional Details: The goals of this prescribed fire are to aid in Whitebark Pine regeneration, protect neighbouring lands, protect species at risk and reintroduce fire in a controlled fashion to an area where fire exclusion has occurred.
Jasper National Park
Henry House 3 - Fireguard Construction
Date: Spring/Fall
Size: 330 ha
Location: Along Highway 16, 13 km north of the Town of Jasper
Additional Details: Will help restore grassland.
Community Fireguard
Date: Spring/Fall
Size: 5-15 ha
Location: Small units along the Community Fireguard
Additional Details: Community protection and ecological restoration.
Fiddle Complex
Date: Fall
Size: 300 ha in four sub-units
Location: Along the park's east boundary
Additional Details: Will provide a landscape fireguard, remove mountain pine beetle habitat and provide ecological restoration.
Rocky Mountain House National Historic Site
Date: Spring
Size: 100ha
Location: Rocky Mountain House National Historic Site, 7km west of Rocky Mountain House
Additional Details:
Parks Canada will implement the Rocky Mountain House National Historic Site prescribed fire to reduce the wildfire risk to the national historic site. Other added benefits of this fire include improving the quality of forage for bison, and the removal of non-native vegetation.
Mt. Revelstoke National Park
Parkway Bend
Date: Fall
Size: 150 ha
Location: Meadows in the Sky Parkway, Mount Revelstoke National Park
Additional Details: The goals of this prescribed fire are to protect neighbouring lands by reducing the risk of wildfire spread off the front face of Mount Revelstoke, to create a safety zone for staff and visitors in the event of a wildfire in Mount Revelstoke National Park, and to reintroduce fire in a controlled fashion to an area where fire exclusion has occurred.
Yoho National Park
Porcupine
Date: Spring/Fall
Size: 2800ha
Location: The northeast corner of Yoho National Park, 17 km west of Field in the Porcupine Creek drainage.
Additional Details: The purpose of the Porcupine prescribed fire is to enhance habitat for whitebark pine and grizzly bears by re-establishing an early seral forest.
Mt. King
Date: Fall
Size: 1900ha
Location: The northeast corner of Yoho National Park, 15 km west of Field in the lower Kicking Horse River region of Yoho National Park.
Additional Details: The purpose of the Mt. King prescribed fire is to enhance barriers to fire spread and Mountain pine beetle and enhance habitat for grizzly bears by re-establishing an early seral forest.
Float Creek
Date: Spring/Fall
Size: 850ha
Location: The northeast corner of Yoho National Park, 11 km southwest of the Field in the Float Creek drainage of Yoho National Park.
Additional Details: The purpose of the Float Creek prescribed fire is to enhance barriers to fire spread and enhance habitat for whitebark pine and grizzly bears by re-establishing an early seral forest.