Natural Resources
September 16, 2009Public Advisory:
Prescribed Burn to be Conducted
The Department of Natural Resources advises that it
will conduct a 150-hectare prescribed burn on tomorrow
(Thursday, September 17) weather permitting ,
at an area referred
to as Grindstone, near the headwaters of Mary March
Brook. The burn site is located approximately 20
kilometres north of the community of Millertown in
Forest Management District 12.
The prescribed 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 one day to complete.
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Media contact:
Connie Boland
Manager of Communications
Department of Natural Resources
709-637-2923, 640-6409
connieboland@gov.nl/ca
2009 09 16 2:25 p.m.
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