By Mandy Vocke

Government grants

Wildfire risk reduction grants to support northern B.C.

May 4, 2019 | 9:50 AM

PRINCE GEORGE— The B.C. government is providing more than $395,000 in community resiliency investment grants to support projects in the Prince George Fire Centre. It will also provide $462,000 in grants to the Cariboo Fire Centre.

The community resiliency investment program looks at the big picture of risk reduction and fuel management treatments by considering fire prevention activities on provincial Crown land, private land, local government land and reserve land.

“Community resiliency investment funding will help Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities increase their resiliency to wildfire threats,” Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development Doug Donaldson says. “The program is designed to support projects at the local level to help keep British Columbians safe.”

The recent funding is part of more than $6 million in community resiliency investment grants provided to 85 municipalities, regional districts and First Nations throughout the province, following the program’s first application intake.

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