Parks Canada works to restore native plants with controlled burn in Waterton Lakes

Crews will be burning an estimated 1,170 hectares of land in Waterton Lakes National Park starting Tuesday in order to help restore native species of plants and trees in the park. Parks Canada says in a release that its fire managers are set up to burn areas of land south of the Chief Mountain Highway and Maskinonge wetland and east of Lower and Middle Waterton Lake, better known as Y-Camp. The operations will be conducted as long as weather permits and will take an estimated two days to complet