Outdoor enthusiasts who enjoy exploring this province's spectacular backcountry need to do it responsibly and be aware of their legal obligations, or else they may face hefty fines and possible jail time.

Smoke from the Cherry Creek prescribed burn will remain visible in the surrounding area as residual fuels behind the well-established containment lines continue to burn.

On Sunday, April 19, 2015, the Wildfire Management Branch conducted an ecosystem restoration burn near Cherry Creek in the East Kootenay. Wildfire Management Branch fire crews are monitoring the area again today and extinguishing any hot spots within the fire's perimeter.

The Wildfire Management Branch is planning to conduct an ecosystem restoration burn near Cherry Creek in the East Kootenay.

Natural resource officers from the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations have worked with a local recycling company to remove over 90 tonnes of illegally dumped waste metal from Crown land northeast of Kimberley.

The Wildfire Management Branch is planning prescribed fires near Bare Mountain and the Artesian Pasture in East Kootenay to take place between Sept. 23 and Oct. 31, 2014, weather conditions permitting.

A prescribed fire is being planned in the Elder Creek drainage of the Flathead River Valley to take place between Sept. 19 and Oct. 1, 2014, weather conditions permitting.

The Province is permanently closing two kilometres of the White-Ram Forest Service Road, which runs through the Ram Creek Ecological Reserve that protects a geothermal hot spring, as well as rare plant and animal species.

If you are interested in helping shape fisheries policy in the East Kootenay, then the Province would like to hear from you.

The Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations is planning to conduct two prescribed burns in the East Kootenays in April.