Cortes Islanders

The Regional District has applied for a Community Resiliency Investment grant to help mitigate wildfire risk for Cortes Island by:
• developing a Community Wildfire Protection Plan for Klahoose First Nation;
• updating the 2011 Cortes Island Community Wildfire Protection Plan; and
• obtaining a fuel management prescription for portions of Hanks Beach Forest Conservation
Park and Crown land adjacent to the Cortes Island recycling centre.

I would like to thank the Cortes Fire Department, Klahoose First Nation and the Cortes Forestry General Partnership for their support on this proposed project.

Wish us luck.

The full staff report can be found at this link https://agenda.strathconard.ca/SRDAttachments/SRDBoard/Open/BRD/09-Oct-19/20190927-Community-Resiliency-Investment_1-COMBINED-CORRECTED.pdf

The 2011 Cortes Island Community Wildfire Protection Plan can be found at this link https://srd.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Cortes_CWPP_Final.pdf