The CFGP is planning to implement a number of wildfire mitigation projects over the next couple of years and will be seeking public input in early 2022. Wildfire mitigation, or so called fuel modification projects, typically involve a mix of thinning the forest to reduce the amount of dry flammable fuels available to burn, and to increase the diversity of ages and stand types within a forested area.
Over the past several years, the CFGP has been working with partners to evaluate options for investing in wildfire preparedness on the island. As part of the revised Community Wildfire Protection Plan, several areas have been identified on the island that would benefit from some form of fuel modification treatment. See the revised plan (map on pp 91) for details:
The areas identified for treatment have been ranked in order of priority based on a number of factors including fuel loads, proximity to residential neighbourhoods and critical infrastructure.
There are four areas within the community forest that have been identified as priority areas for treatment. These include the area between the highway maintenance shed and Anvil Lake, the area east of the residential neighbourhood in Coulter Bay, the area surrounding the recycling centre, and along the community forest logging road in Squirrel Cove.
See maps below for details:
CFGP Operating Plans 2022 Overview Map Dec 2021
In the past year prescriptions have been prepared by wildfire planning professionals for three of these areas, along with a Traditional Use Assessment (TUS) by the Tla’amin First Nation. The prescriptions completed to date are available below, and the TUA final report is expected shortly.
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Much of the planning work described above was completed with grant funding received through the Union of BC Municipalities and administered by Shaun Koopman at the SRD. Many thanks to Shaun for helping make this work possible.
At this point it is likely that the treatments around the recycling centre and in Squirrel Cove will also be funded through the same mechanism, which comes with a number of limitations including that all the useable wood is to go out as free firewood available to be collected at roadside. The prescriptions in these two areas are primarily comprised of removing the dead trees and lower grade small stems that are likely do die soon and become dry fuel.
The treatments in the CAR and Anvil Lake areas will be designed and and funded by the CFGP as they will involve harvesting merchantable timber that will be sold as with a typical harvest. The CFGP would like the invite the public to provide input as part of the planning for each of these areas. Public consultation notices will be sent to neighbours in each of these areas, and will be posted on the tideline in the next few weeks.
The CAR prescription as described above primarily involves thinning the forest and removing the fuels on the forest floor. The prescription for the the Anvil Lake area is not yet completed but in most of the area will be similar to the CAR prescription above.
An additional component in the Anvil Lake treatment area will involve removing several areas of dead and dying mistletoe Hemlock and may include planting Alder on appropriate sites, as deciduous forest canopies are considered a natural fire break for low to medium density canopy fires.
Access to each of the areas except the Anvil Lake treatment area has already been developed. There are two possible access routes for the Anvil Lake area, and a decision on access will be made once the public consultation has been completed.
The CFGP has had to make some changes to the 5 year plan from 2017 for a number of reasons, and this wildfire mitigation work is being moved forward as a result. The harvest at block VON2 is still part of the plan for the next five years (see the CFGP Operating Plans 2o22 map above) but access to the area has not been finalized and therefore a timeline has not been established for this project. The current plan for block VON2 is an intermediate harvest (thinning), similar to the 2020 harvest in block CAR1.
A timeline of projects is being worked on and will be posted in the coming weeks.