The province is using $1.2 million from a job-creation fund to reduce the fire risk and remove beetle-killed trees in several communities in the Cariboo region.
The money comes from a $129 million fund -- created initially by federal money and later augmented by the province -- to help offset the impacts of the forestry downturn in hard-hit forest-based communities.
The funding for five projects is expected to create about 75 jobs and treat hundreds of hectares.
The projects will take place in the Williams Lake area.
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