Parks Canada protecting Banff and Lake Louise with fire break

The south side of Protection Mountain is a strategic area for Parks Canada, because it's able to make a fire break by mechanically cutting trees.Charlie McLellan is the fire and vegetation specialist with Parks Canada and says a lot of work has already gone on around the mountain communities of Banff and Lake Louise, but this project is on a larger scale.

"If we get a fire and, in this location of the Bow Valley, we have something we can easily tie it into to reduce the size and spread of it," he said. "At least on one on one side and gain containment, which reduces a lot of impacts to communities or infrastructure or tourists visitation here, but also at a broader scale it will reduce the amount of smoke that we've been seeing in our summer months.

Tamelin says in exchange for doing the work, the lumber that comes off of the mountain side becomes the property of the contractor.

It’d be interesting to see the environmental impact study on that job. Basically putting a highway in. What happens with the flood waters?

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