Reducing wildfire risk at regional parks in Central Okanagan
Global News
On Thursday, RDCO staff set up an information table at Kalamoir Park in West Kelowna to inform park users about the efforts underway to reduce the fire risk.
With so much fuel load, parkland is fertile ground for wildfires.
That’s why the Regional District of Central Okanagan (RDCO) is focusing its efforts on fuel mitigation work at its regional parks.
“We take ‘FireSmarting’ within our park systems extremely seriously,” said Matt Hammond, the RDCO’s manager of park operations.
On Thursday, RDCO staff set up an information table at Kalamoir Park in West Kelowna to inform park users about the efforts underway to reduce the fire risk.
“That effort is a variety of works, ” Hammond said. “A lot of it is to clean up the forest fuel.”
In 2020, the RDCO conducted a FireSmart review of its 30 regional parks across the Central Okanagan to create a priority list of parks slated for fuel mitigation work.
“2,100 hectares of parkland that we assessed and that brings it into a priority rating so that way we will know which parks and areas to treat first,” Hammond said.
Kalamoir Park was among the top on the list with work scheduled to start at the park in November.
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