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The City of Kamloops is hosting an open house this week to give residents a chance to learn more about a handful of prescribed burns that are planned for the spring.
Prescribed burns will be happening in Rose Hill Park (eight hectares), Peterson Creek Nature Park (17 ha), and a publicly owned area of the Lac Du Bois Grasslands (10 ha).
On Thursday, Jan. 30, residents can stop in at the Kia Lounge at the Sandman Centre between 3-6 pm to ask questions and learn more about how the planned burn will benefit those areas.
“Carefully planned and monitored, prescribed burns involve the controlled application of fire to targeted areas,” the city said in a news release.
“The prescribed burn project objectives include wildfire risk reduction, low-intensity surface fire application, ecological restoration, invasive species removal, and overgrown sagebrush reduction.”
The prescribed burn is scheduled to happen between March and April 2025 but will depend on weather conditions. If conditions are not ideal, the burns will be rescheduled to the fall.
The work is being done in partnership with BC Wildfire Service, Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc, and Thompson Rivers Natural Resource District.
As a result of the planned burns, residents can expect temporary trail closures and visible smoke from the areas being treated.