The Province announced today that it is lifting the Provincial wide campfire ban, however please check with your local communities as some have bylaws in place that still restrict camp fires. Chilliwack is an example of a municipality that has such a bylaw.
Updated campfire info. Fire Bans and Area Restrictions - Wildfire Management Branch - Ministry of Forests and Range - Province of British Columbia The only area that is exempt from this ban is the south east corner of BC.
Dear Members and Supporters: Looking back to the 2010 Annual General Meeting (AGM) and the couple of months preceding it, I must say that the Association has come a long way in a short time. At the beginning of this year, membership was very low and animosity toward the association seemed high. Most of the Board Of Directors (BOD) and previous BOD agreed that the primary reason for this was a failure to communicate to our membership with any consistency. After the ...
Read the full article: CAMPFIRES PROHIBITED ACROSS THE COASTAL FIRE CENTRE
This has been reported on a few web sites already, but in case you haven’t heard … People will be sitting around smaller campfires in B.C. this summer under new rules taking effect on Canada Day. The government is shrinking the size of fires from one metre across to about a half metre as of July 1 to try to reduce the risk of wildfires caused by careless people, Forests Minister Pat Bell said Thursday (June 24). Since April 1, fire crews have responded ...
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