five_alarm
03-31-2005, 07:26 AM
VALEMOUNT, BC - It doesn’t take a three month study to determine that Valemount and Tete Jaune are high risk communities when it comes to wildfires. Both communities are literally surrounded by and even contain mature or over-mature forests. Add to this high winds, drought-like conditions and a mountain pine beetle epidemic, and you have two communities that are very good candidates for a devastating wildfire.
Rick Publicover presented the Fire Hazard Risk Assessment and Wildfire Protection Plan to the village council last Tuesday. While Tete Jaune and Valemount are at risk during extreme summer conditions (like the two years previous), there is much that private property owners, Crown, village and the regional district can do to reduce the threat. Publicover developed 110 recommendations on how to prepare for wildfires.
Source: robsonvalleytimes.com (http://www.robsonvalleytimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=54&Itemid=49)
Rick Publicover presented the Fire Hazard Risk Assessment and Wildfire Protection Plan to the village council last Tuesday. While Tete Jaune and Valemount are at risk during extreme summer conditions (like the two years previous), there is much that private property owners, Crown, village and the regional district can do to reduce the threat. Publicover developed 110 recommendations on how to prepare for wildfires.
Source: robsonvalleytimes.com (http://www.robsonvalleytimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=54&Itemid=49)