Natural Resources
September 10, 2009
Public Advisory: Prescribed Burn to be Conducted
The Department of Natural Resources
advises that it will conduct a 105 -hectare
prescribed burn starting Friday, September 11, weather
permitting,
at an
area referred to as Faulkner�s Flats. The site is
located approximately five kilometres northwest of the
community of Hampden and 13 kilometres inside the Clam
Pond resource road in Forest Management District 16.
This prescribed burn originally
scheduled for August was delayed due to unfavoruable
weather conditions. It 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 to
two days to complete. If weather and wind conditions are
not favourable on Friday, the burn will proceed on
Saturday, Sunday or Monday when conditions permit.
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Media contact:
Tracy Barron
Director of Communications
Department of Natural Resources
709-729-5282; 709-690-8241
tracybarron@gov.nl.ca
2009 09 10
11:15 a.m.
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