Wildland Protection Services
 

Wildland Protection Services provides a variety of services to many different clients. Changing environmental patterns and increased wildland/urban interface development have made wildfire protection and evaluation programs essential to sound management and protection of our wildlands. The Whispering Pines / Clinton Indian Band has combined their knowledge, expertise and professional skills to form this unique Wildfire Urban Interface team. Our company utilizes fire hazard management skills, professional forestry practices, up to date training and safe work procedures to provide our clients with exceptional wildfire services.

Wildfire Hazard Assessments

 
WPS has experience in wildfire interface protection solutions and risk evaluations. These assessments may consider vegetation management, structural options, community defensible spaces and firebreaks to develop hazard recommendations.

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Wildfire Hazard Abatement Services

WPS is available to safely carry out hazard abatement activities including thinning, pruning, ground fuel reduction, prescribed burns and hazard maintenance activities with advanced technical skills focused on environmental standards.

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Wildfire Protection Training & Education Services

WPS is available for Fire Entrapment Avoidance and Safety (S185) training as well as fitness testing.

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WPSOur company employs a wide range of trained and experienced staff including:

• Professional Foresters
• Senior Forest Technicians
• Technical Assistants
• Professional Agrologists
• Fire Suppression & Abatement Crews
• Microstation and GIS Technicians
• Forestry Field Crew
• Computer Technician
• Heavy Equipment Operators
• Level 1 First Aid Attendants
• Level 3 First Aid Attendants

Experience:

• Ministry of Forest - Wildfire Danger Tree Assessor and Falling Contract #K20548 August 2004
• Ministry of Forest-Wildfire Danger Tree Assessor and Falling Contract #K20487 August 2004
• Ministry of Forest - Wildland Danger Tree Assessor and Falling Contract #SC081 Sept-Oct 2006
• Bruce Morrow Forest Consulting Ltd.- contract for Danger Tree Assessing and Falling for Parks Canada -2007.

Our crews have also had the opportunity to work with us in the following areas:

• Ministry of Forest - Standing offer to supply 2 five men crews for firefighting for 2005/2006.
• Logging for 100 Mile Forest District, Weyerhauser and Ainsworth.
• Numerous Fall and Burn contracts for Westfraser, Ainsworth, and 100 Mile Forest District.
• Tree planting for Ainsworth and 100 mile Forest District Slashing for Teresan Pipeline Fertilizing contracts for BCTS, Westfraser and Ainsworth Road Building Road and Fire Guard Rehabilitation Grass Seeding for Ministry of Forest

LIST OF EQUIPMENT & TECHNOLOGY

We ensure that each crew member is equipped with all the necessary up to date safety equipment. WPS is able to provide a variety of equipment as shown below.

• One 3500 1 ton Dodge Dually crew cab 4x4 with 325 gallon water tank
• One 2500 ѕ ton Dodge extended cab 4x4 with 225 gallon water tank
• One 3500 1 ton Ford extended cab 4x4
• 3- 4 wheelers " One Polaris 6x6 with 50 gallon water tank
• 2 Mark III high pressure forestry pumps
• One 4" 8 horse Honda volumne pump
• One 3.5 horse volume pump
• 2 shindawa pumps
• Two 625 Jonsered chainsaw
• One 630 Jonsered chainsaw
• 4 Huskavarna chainsaws
• 4 hose clamps
• Four 1.5 back check valve
• Forty 50' 5/8 econo line
• Twenty 1.5" lined 100' hose
• Twenty 1.5" unlined 100' hose
• Four 2" intake suction hose
• Ten 1.5" fog nozzles, Jet spray
• JD 748 G3 Grapple Skidder
• D6 Cat
• Backhoe 580 Super E Case
• Excavator EX150-5 Hitachi
• Western Star 4000 gallon Water Tender
• Individual Level 1 First Aid Kit
• hand held ranger compasses
• four hand held forestry radio with spare batteries
• Three GPS
• Fifteen shovels
• Twenty Polaskis
• Ten hand held pumps
• Six driptorches with spare fuel
• Individual headlamps with spare batteries Level 3 first Aid kit with oxygen

RESOURCE AFFILIATIONS

• Ruskin Construction
• Evergreen International Aviation