Effective immediately, Tree Farm Licence (TFL) 57 on the west coast of Vancouver Island will have an area-based allowable annual cut level of 222 hectares, chief forester Diane Nicholls announced.

Smoke may be visible north of Canim Lake, near 100 Mile House, due to large-scale industrial burning that’s currently underway to clear out wood debris and reduce wildfire risks in the area.

BC Wildfire Service crews will be conducting a series of fuel management burns in the Northwest Fire Centre in September and October to remove accumulated woody debris and reduce the wildfire hazard in the region.

The BC Wildfire Service will be conducting a series of prescribed burns in the West Parsnip area of the Mackenzie Natural Resource District from Sept. 19-23, 2016, if weather and site conditions are favourable.

Provincial biologists are calling on British Columbia anglers to take extra precautions following the discovery of a potentially fatal fish disease in an Alberta lake.

BC Wildfire Service crews will be conducting a 54-hectare ecosystem restoration burn about 15 kilometres northwest of Deer Park (near Sunshine Creek) between Sept. 13 and Sept. 30, depending on weather and site conditions.

The nomination process for Japanese Canadian historic places has been extended to Nov. 30, 2016.

Effective at noon Pacific Time on Sept. 9, 2016, Category 2 open fires will once again be permitted in the Columbia, Arrow and Kootenay Lake fire zones of the Southeast Fire Centre, due to a decreased risk of wildfire in those areas.

The Province is calling on hunters in the Cherryville-Lumby area to help monitor bovine tuberculosis in wildlife by bringing the heads of white-tailed or mule deer to select locations.