Natural Resources
September 13, 2010Public Advisory: Prescribed Burns
to be Conducted
The Department of Natural Resources will conduct three prescribed
burns at the following locations and on the following dates:
- A 120-hectare prescribed burn will start Tuesday,
September 14, at Lynx Pond. The site is located north of Sandy Lake
on a forest access road approximately three kilometres west of
Birchy Narrows in Forest Management District 9.
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A 300-hectare prescribed burn will start Tuesday,
September 14, at Denny's Pond. The site is located approximately 20
kilometres southwest of the community of Millertown in Forest
Management District 12.
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A 95-hectare prescribed burn will start Wednesday, September 15,
at an area referred to as Faulkner's Flats. The site is located
approximately five kilometres southwest of the community of Hampden
and six kilometres east off Route 420 on the Clam Pond resource road
in Forest Management District 16.
The prescribed burns are 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. If weather and wind conditions are not favourable, the burn
will proceed as soon as conditions permit.
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Media contact:
Ken Morrissey
Director of Communications
Department of Natural Resources
709-729-5282, 685-6612
kenmorrissey@gov.nl.ca
2010 09 13 1:40 p.m.