Manning Park Fuel Mitigation

Cabin completed 17.4 ha of fuel mitigation (both mechanical and manual treatments) behind the Manning Park Visitors Center and staff residences in collaboration with Sarkris Contracting Ltd.

The primary objective was to fire smart and treat a linear fuel break around critical resort infrastructure to create a defensible and safer control line for suppression efforts. Along with a defensible space, the objective was to also reduce potential fire behaviour within the stand during a fire event. This was achieved by:

• Mechanical thinning of the overstory
• Manual thinning of the overstory
• Manual thinning of the understory stems
• Pruning
• Debris management (piling burning)