Work on the firebreak in the Gorge Harbour Area of the Community Forest is now completed and the area remains open for people to go out and collect free firewood for personal in the block. The location is up the new logging road across and just down from the highway shed on Gorge Harbour Road.

The firewood is free and people are allowed two average size pickup loads per household.

Please do not buck up any downed trees along the road and only take wood that is at roadside in the block.

There is a small about of wood already bucked into rounds that would be available for people without a chainsaw, but the majority of the wood is full length at roadside and needs to be bucked.

If you don’t have a chainsaw or pickup you can organize with someone else to go and collect a load or two.

Provincial regulations require that people download and fill out a free use permit and simply keep it in the truck that is hauling your wood. Free use permits are available here:

FreeUsePermit April & May 2023 GH1

NOTE: Older drafts of the free use permits may be old, if you’ve already downloaded one but just cross out the date and write in the new one.