A community meeting has been planned for Thursday, March 31 to keep residents informed of the soon-to-be-implemented Early Warning System to reduce the risk to residents from post-wildfire landslides in the Wiseman Creek area. 

The meeting will be held at the Sicamous Seniors Centre, located at 1091 Shuswap Avenue, beginning at 5:30 PM.

Funding has been secured from the Province of BC to develop an Early Warning System that will assist in alerting residents in the Wiseman Creek area of the District of Sicamous to potential threats from post-wildfire landslides.

Columbia Shuswap Regional District (CSRD) Directors are not supporting a proposal to conduct salvage logging in the Sicamous and Wiseman Creek watersheds at this time due to the high risk of landslides following the past summer’s Two Mile wildfire.

The Board was responding to a referral from BC Timber Sales, which is proposing to conduct salvage logging of burnt timber in the area.

Love for the Shuswap goes far beyond Valentine’s Day.

The Shuswap recently ranked #6 in the Tourism Sentiment Index’s Leading Places: The 50 Most-Loved Destinations in Canada for 2021 report.