August 25, 2014
Public Advisory: Prescribed Burns to be Conducted
The Department of Natural Resources advises that two prescribed burns will be undertaken tomorrow (Tuesday, August 26) weather permitting. This includes 21-hectares near Robinsons River in Forest Management District 14 located approximately 10 kilometres east of the community of Robinsons; and 215-hectares in an area referred to locally as Clam Pond located approximately six kilometres southwest of Hampden and four kilometres inside the Clam Pond Resource Road in Forest Management District 16.
The prescribed burns are part of the province’s silviculture management program to prepare these sites for planting and to eliminate the threat of adelgid, a non-native forest pest which limits tree growth. If weather and wind conditions are not favourable, the burn will proceed as soon as conditions permit.
More than $8 million is allocated in 2014 to support silviculture management across the province, which includes the enhancement of more than 3,500 hectares and the planting of more than 8.5 million tree seedlings.
For further information, please contact Basil English, Supervisor of Silviculture, at 709-637-2343 or by email at benglish@gov.nl.ca.
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Media contact:
Diana Quinton
Director of Communications
Department of Natural Resources
709-729-5282, 631-8155
dianaquinton@gov.nl.ca
2014 08 25 12:50 p.m.