Clearwater’s forest fuel reduction brings in $M

Keith McNeill, Clearwater Times – May 01, 2011
District of Clearwater’s forest fuel reduction programs brought a total of $2.4M into the community and resulted in 31.4 person-months of employment over the past two years.

Those were just some of the figures corporate administrator Leslie Groulx used when she introduced Wes Bieber, the forest consultant who coordinated the programs. Bieber gave his final report to town council on April 19. North Thompson and Wells Gray provincial parks received nearly $800,000 in collateral benefit, Bieber said. School District 73 had 19 hectares treated for $145,000 in collateral benefit. Three local woodlots plus Wells Gray Community Forest benefited saw improvements to their standing timber inventory. One of the biggest problems they faced was disposing of the woody material generated, said Bieber. Domtar accepted 23 B-trains of it and some was salvaged, but the much of the rest was burned.
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