Duhamel Wildfire Resilience Initiative The Duhamel Watershed Society (DWS), with support from the Columbia Basin Trust and the BC Ministry of Forests, is launching a two-year initiative to mitigate wildfire threats and enhance neighbourhood protection in the Six Mile communities. What We Are Doing: Forest Fuel Management: Guided by a Registered Professional Forester, we are establishing up to 10-hectare demonstration sites to reduce fire intensity, prevent crowning, and cre

Forest Fuel Management WHAT is the Wildfire Resilience Initiative? With Columbia Basin Trust, BC Ministry of Forests and the Duhamel Watershed Society Two year grant by Columbia Basin Trust & BC Ministry of Forest that funds Wildfire Resilience projects to reduce fire risks in the Six Mile communities in case of a wildfire. One of the projects is Forest Fuel Management on selected forested parcels on Crown and RDCK lands: 1) Lower Six Mile parcels and 2) Heddle bench hills

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