WILLIAMS LAKE – Cariboo Chilcotin Forest District and B.C. Wildfire Service will be working in collaboration with SDX Limited Partnership to perform a Wildfire Risk Reduction Project along Tinmusket Forest Service Road (FSR). This project is funded through the Community Resiliency Investment Crown Land Wildfire Risk Reduction Program.

When and where

Work on this project started in October of 2024 and will continue into next year, until March 20, 2026.

The project is located along the Tinmusket FSR, south of the community of Stswecem’c Xgat’tem (Canoe Creek/Dog Creek).

What to expect

• Piles no larger than two metres by three metres were created in the first phase of the project.
• The piles will be burned starting as early as November 19, 2025.
• Crews will ignite piles using hand torches under favourable conditions and will closely monitor all fire activity.
• Burning may occur over multiple days, as weather and site conditions allow.
• Personnel will remain on-site each day to ensure fires are controlled and will only leave once the fires have safely burned down and no longer pose a risk of spreading.
• Fires will continue to be monitored and extinguished once burning is complete.
• Smoke and flames will be visible to surrounding communities.

Objectives of this Wildfire Risk Reduction project

• Reduce the wildfire risk to in an area near Stswecem’c Xgat’tem (Dog Creek)
• Strategically remove fuels, reducing the ability of wildfire to spread from ground to canopy and reducing overall intensity of a potential wildfire.
• Help restore grown-in Interior Douglas-fir stands to a more natural/desirable state.

The Ministry of Forests has completed several wildfire risk reduction projects throughout the Cariboo Chilcotin Natural Resource District.

Learn more

Fire is a natural process in many of B.C.’s ecosystems. The BC Wildfire Service works regularly with land managers to undertake fuel management activities, including the use of prescribed burns and wildfire risk reduction projects, to help reduce the severity of future wildfires and related threats to communities.

As we get further into the cooler weather, you may see smoke in your area from open burning activities. Open burning can be expected to be seen from the fall through to the spring as the wildfire risk is lower. Overnight recoveries and relative humidities are higher and therefore, not conducive to fires burning or at high risk of spreading throughout this time of year.

Contact
Shelly Harnden, RFT
Land and Resource Coordinator
Cariboo Chilcotin Natural Resource District
Phone: 250-706 6276
Email: Shelly.Harnden@gov.bc.ca

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