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Students work for wildfire resilience at Langford’s Belmont Secondary

News Story by Black Press Media

Laughter and chatter mixed with the noise of an excavator engine and the grinding of a wood chipper on the hillside behind Langford’s Belmont Secondary School on Monday (March 11), as people buzzed up and down throughout the cool morning, hauling tarp loads of woody debris to be ground down to mulch.

It is part of an effort to make the school grounds and nearby homes more fire-resilient by removing invasive plants and cleaning up the forest, while also getting students outside using their hands — and providing free labour.

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