Wildfire Management Branch personnel will be conducting a series of small burns north of Merritt off the Coquihalla Highway, between Thursday, April 30 and Tuesday, May 5, 2015.

Effective May 1, 2015, the Anderson Beach Recreation Site will be closed to overnight camping and parking between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. due to overuse by visitors, the presence of bears in the area and ongoing issues with unmanaged wildlife attractants.

Effective at noon on April 27, 2015, Category 3 open burning will be prohibited by the Wildfire Management Branch throughout the Cariboo Fire Centre to help prevent the public.

Effective at noon on May 15, 2015, the size of open fires will be restricted in most of the Kamloops Fire Centre to help prevent human-caused wildfires and protect the public.

British Columbians are invited to comment on a draft land use order that, if approved, would establish 27 old growth management areas within the Whistler Landscape Unit...

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.

On Thursday, April 16, 2015, the Wildfire Management Branch responded to two new wildfires in the North Columbia region, both of which were human-caused and therefore preventable.