It’s an undeniable fact the resinous pitch-soaked pine and spruce will light up much more swiftly than a water-logged aspen should a fire sweep into our city.
If there’s one thing this past fire season has told us, it’s that we need to get serious about reducing the fire risk around Prince George.
When I travel our boulevards, Ospika, Tyner, and Foothills to name a few, I see pine plantation landscape features. More detrimentally, hundreds of hectares of broadleaf forests on regenerating cutblocks between the Nechako River and the city, probably the most likely path a fire will take to enter our city, were either sprayed with glyphosate or manually brushed to grow conifer. BC Timber Sales even aerially sprayed cutblocks inside city limits back in 2009 and 2010. We spent hundreds of thousands of public dollars doing this, and we did almost all of this after a 2009 city wildfire report told us not to.
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