Natural Resources
September 18, 2009Public Advisory:
Prescribed Burn to be Conducted
The Department of Natural Resources advises that it
will conduct an 80-hectare prescribed burn
starting Monday, September 21, weather permitting, at an
area referred to as Saltwater Pond. The site is located
approximately 14 kilometres northwest of the community
of Hampden and 24 kilometres inside the Clam Pond access
road in Forest Management District 16.
This 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
