Possible Pile Burning & New Collaboration Project with Wildsight - Youth Climate Corps.

Creston Community Forest
May 21
2 min read

Fuel Reduction Meets Food Security.

Notice to the public : possible pile burning during May 20th - 30th on Goat Mountain. From wildfire prevention to regenerative farming, a new project on Goat Mountain is connecting the dots.

In partnership with the Creston Community Forest, the Youth Climate Corps is building hands-on skills while reducing forest fuels and feeding local farms with mulch made on-site. Details below:

- The Youth Climate Corps, Wildsight East and West Kootenays regions combined are completing a wildfire risk reduction treatment project in partnership with the Creston Community Forest on 3.1 hectares on Goat Mountain.

To view our project head to the "2025 West Kootenay" projects list on the Wildsight website listed here: https://wildsight.ca/programs/youthclimatecorps

- The goal is reduce the fuel build-up adjacent to private land to reduce the risk of wildfire as well as to help restore fire-maintained ecosystems to increase resilience in a changing climate.

- The project provides an opportunity to foster young, local skill and knowledge in the work and objectives.

- The group will be chipping the gathered woody debris and delivering the chips to local farms that signed up in the Creston area, with the goal of promoting local food systems and creating a local carbon cycle.

- Where the debris is too far from the roadside to warrant chipping, the debris will be piled and burned in small piles (less than Category 2 sized: <2m in height and <3m wide), venting dependent.

- This project is anticipated to go from May 20 - 30th.

- Wildsight is one of the Creston Community Forests 5 share-holders.