Kamloops Region Pilot Project

Logging ideas on the value of woodwaste

Kamloops This Week

They are the garbage dumps of the forest: a tangle of fat, scarred Douglas fir ends ravaged by fire, three-metre-long tree tops and twisted pieces deemed too small for the mill. Pushed and scraped into heaps along with needles, twigs and the occasional boulder, these slash piles will remain through the summer until the cold fall and early winter months, when a little fuel and a match will make the waste disappear. But, fingers were pointed at the forest industry last fall when the Thompson Valley became choked with smoke as an unexpected inversion set in during the annual rite of burning slash piles.

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