The Prince George Fire Centre received multiple reports about three grass fires in the Peace Region this week. All of these fires were human-caused.

Comments and feedback are being sought on the North Vancouver Island draft Marine Plan at a series of open houses and public meetings in Campbell River, Port McNeill and Port Hardy, as part of the Marine Planning Partnership (MaPP) initiative for the North Pacific Coast.

The Cariboo Fire Centre is encouraging the public to exercise caution when doing any outdoor burning this spring.

The Conservation Officer Service is requesting the public’s assistance in their investigation into illegal hunting of Roosevelt elk in the Cowichan Valley.

Prescribed burning is planned in the Lundbom Lake area south of Merritt between April 10 and May 16, 2014.

VICTORIA - The 2014 Crown Contaminated Sites Program Biennial Report released today details work government has done over the past decade to clean up sites that have been contaminated by historic industrial activity.

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

The B.C. government is recommending Okanagan tree fruit growers include insurance for hail damage in their 2014 risk management plans, and take advantage of the fact that B.C. premiums are the lowest in Canada.