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"Environmental stewardship for our community and our park"

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Waskesiu Community Council 2004 Vegetation Management Plan

At its March meeting the Community Council approved the following main elements of the 2004 vegetation management plan for the townsite. Other initiatives may be undertaken during the year by Parks Canada or other groups such as Friends of the Park.

The main elements include:

  • The second year of the aerial spruce budworm control spraying program. The final BioForest report showed the 2003 program to have succeeded in reducing defoliation in the town's white spruce trees but also showed moderate to high larvae counts. Therefore, Council and Parks Canada have jointly agreed to proceed with the second year of this three-year program. Extensive monitoring will be repeated this year to determine if a third year will be required.

    Precise timing of the spray program depends on larvae development. Two applications will be made in late May or early June. The same firms who conducted the successful 2003 program are being engaged for 2004.

  • FireSmart Initiative. Council and Parks are developing a FIRESMART program for the community beginning with the promotion of a major clean up effort on the weekend of June 19th. MARK THIS IN YOUR CALENDARS. Tentative plans include a workshop on the evening of Friday, June 18th designed to make residents more aware of fire hazards in the community and to provide information about steps to make our community more fire safe. On Saturday, residents will be encouraged to clean their yards - Parks trucks will be available to take away the materials. The day will culminate with a barbeque. Watch for details in the weeks ahead.

    The Kelowna disaster last summer taught valuable lessons about ground maintenance. We can learn from that! FireSmart will be an ongoing effort. Be FireSmart!

  • Arbor Day. The 2003 ARBOR DAY was a huge success with 75 trees planted by more than 60 volunteers. The 2004 ARBOR DAY promises to be even bigger with plans to transplant 150 trees with a variety of species. This event will again be held on the Labour Day weekend in September. PLEASE MARK IN YOUR CALENDARS. If you have any suggestions for transplant locations, please let Herve Langlois know.
  • Tree Removal. The Council and Parks Canada will explore means whereby the removal of trees, including hazardous trees can be coordinated to reduce costs for everyone, Golf Course, Parks Canada and leaseholders. This idea is at the conceptual stage at this time but we hope to get something going this summer.

  • Native Plants. Residents are encouraged to beautify their properties by planting native plants. Friends of the Park will be selling a variety of native bedding plants and seeds in their store on or before July 1. As well, they are considering the development of an information corner on native plants in their bookstore. Watch for it! Friends also plan to clean up the native plant display on Waskesiu Drive.

Vegetation Management Committee members: Herve Langlois, chair; Don Ravis, Peter Strawson, Bryan Matheson, Jeff Weir, Carla Flaman, and Fiona Moreland.

March 21, 2004

The Waskesiu Community Council is democratically elected to represent your views to Parks Canada. We assist Prince Albert National Park in establishing practices for the operation of Waskesiu. Our council operates under the terms of a Memorandum Of Understanding outlining responsibilities to you and to Parks Canada.

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