Public Advisory: Prescribed Burn to be Conducted

Natural Resources
September 9, 2009
Public Advisory: Prescribed Burn to be Conducted

The Department of Natural Resources advises that it will conduct a 280-hectare prescribed burn sometime between Thursday, September 10, and Sunday, September 13, at an area referred to as River Brook near the community of St. Fintan�s in Forest Management District 14. The burn is being conducted as part of a silviculture management activity to prepare the site for planting and to eliminate the threat of adelgid, a naturally occurring forest pest which limits tree growth.

The prescribed burn will take place in close proximity to the Trans-Canada Highway and will take one day to complete. It will proceed if weather and wind conditions permit.

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Media contact:

Tracy Barron
Director of Communications
Department of Natural Resources
709-729-5282, 690-8241
tracybarron@gov.nl.ca

2009 09 09 4:15 p.m.

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