Wet Weather Scuttles Alberta's Plans to Slow Eastward Advance of Pine Beetle
Posted on: Friday, 5 October 2007, 15:00 CDT
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
CALGARY - Alberta's plans to light three large forest fires this fall to slow the pine beetle's aggressive march eastward will be delayed until at least next spring.
Recent cold and wet weather across the province has scuttled plans to light three controlled fires along the western boundary with British Columbia. The biggest burn was to be a 112 square kilometre fire in the Kakwa-Willmore interprovincial park north of Jasper National Park.
Two other fires were planned for an area west of Rocky Mountain House and in a mountain valley south of Canmore.
Rob Harris, with Alberta's sustainable resources department, says nature simply hasn't co-operated and the prescribed burns will now be postponed until next spring.
The goal of the fires is to remove some of the beetle's food source and slow its migration from British Columbia, where an area twice the size of New Brunswick has been affected.
Source: Canadian Press
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