Public tour highlights forest health and wildfire risk reduction work around Lake Wenatchee
By: Taylor Caldwell
LAKE WENATCHEE – Local agencies and organizations invited the community on a tour of forest restoration and community wildfire protection work taking place on public forest land on May 29.
The tour visited work sites around Lake Wenatchee, with discussion from the U.S. Forest Service, Cascadia Conservation District, Lake Wenatchee Fire and Rescue, Chelan County and more.
The first stop was an overlook along Forest Service Road 6306 near Meadow Creek, where forest health restoration treatment is being completed, which includes commercial and non-commercial thinning, prescribed fire, and road construction and decommissioning.
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