“I think the city of Prince George is sitting on a time bomb,' logging contractor says.
Prince George is ripe for a wlidfire disaster of a similar scale to Fort McMurray in 2016 that destroyed 2,500 homes and buildings unless the forests that surround the city are managed appropriately, a local logging contractor says.
“We know the problem is there and we’re not addressing it. So far, the city has done about 60 hectares of fire mitigation. Prince George is not doing enough to address the extremely high fire hazard inside of the city. You have all these neighbourhoods that have forests that go right into them. We’ve been lucky so far.”
Some regular users of the Pidherny trails have complained about damage done to the trails where heavy excavating equipment crossed over to get to trees cut down to thin the forest. Some trails were driven on for their entire length to get to remote areas and will have to be rebuilt. Parfitt says the damage will be fixed in Phase 2 of the project later this summer.
Russell Phillips has been riding the Pidherny trails for 16 years and he likes what has been done to make to make the area more fire resistant.
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