Pair of prescribed burns in Kamloops postponed because of unfavourable weather

Uzeloc says the 17-hectare burn at Peterson Creek Nature Park, which was expected to get underway as early as March 5, had to be cancelled at the last minute. He is urging caution, saying he would have preferred if the other two burns would have been done before the summer wildfire season.

“There’s a lot of factors that get looked at around having a burn and we got the Rose Hill one done,” Uzeloc said. “We were all good to go at Peterson Creek but the day before the weather changed and the forecast wasn’t good so it got cancelled the afternoon before we were going to be doing it.”

“Unfortunately, the weather didn’t cooperate in the small window that we had but we do plan for these, we prepare for these but the best thing the public can do is to pay attention to the FireSmart principles and action them.”

No date was announced for the ten-hectare burn in a publicly-owned area of the Lac Du Bois Grasslands near Batchelor Heights.

“Prescribed fire is a proven land management tool that helps restore ecological balance, protect critical infrastructure, and enhance community safety by reducing the intensity and spread of potential wildfires,” a statement from the City of Kamloops said.

“The prescribed burn project objectives include wildfire risk reduction, low-intensity surface fire application, ecological restoration, invasive species removal and overgrown sagebrush reduction.”

For more information on wildfire protection in Kamloops, go here.

by Victor Kaisar

Pair of prescribed burns in Kamloops postponed because of unfavourable weather

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