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Weather for Oakville, ON Fri Sat Sun Mon 10° 3° 12° 6° 10° 6° 13° 4° Page 4 Bank bed challenge rolls Child exploitation bust Page 5 www.insidehalton.com dentistoakville.com 905-842-6030 Stay Connected! Friday, April 29, 2016 | 60 pages A Publication of Metroland Media Group Connected to your community - $1.00 incl. tax | photo by Nigel Finney - special to the Beaver | photo by Chelsea McIsaac - special to the Beaver | photo by Nigel Finney - special to the Beaver Prescribed burn targets menaces like buckthorn by Julia Le Oakville Beaver Staff A prescribed -- controlled -- burn carried out by Conservation Halton (CH), assisted by a six-person crew from Lands and Forests Consulting Ltd., took place in Glenorchy Conservation Area in northwest Oakville last Sunday. The burn is geared to boost the health of the forest oor, to ensure long-term success of the woodlots and grasslands. Conservation Halton (CH) successfully carried out its rst prescribed burn for Glenorchy Conservation Area last Sunday (April 24). Working alongside a quali ed six-man crew from Lands and Forests Consulting Ltd., CH's ecological restoration staff targeted a 3.2-hectare area, where invasive, non-native species threatened the long-term ecological restoration of the oak woodland and grassland areas. A prescribed burn -- or controlled burn -- is a deliberately set, carefully planned and controlled, low severity re, which consumes ground level ne fuels such as dried leaves, needles, and small twigs, but does not harm larger trees, according to CH. "The practice is a widely-used and recognized scienti c method of controlling outcompeting and non- re tolerant invasive species, while allowing for growth and encouraged regeneration of the naturally occurring trees like oak and hickory, grasslands, and planted seedlings," stated a CH release. "After the burn, wild ower blooms will be abundant in the summer, as well as bird and pollinator populations who will use the new habitat," it stated. While staff was on-site early in the morning to secure the area and make sure re breaks see Glenorchy on p.3