Mobil Bistcho, Alberta

Mobil Bistcho is a grass airstrip in Northern Alberta.

It is located along the 31st baseline.Alberta Sustainable Resources, (formerly the Alberta Forest Service), maintains the airstrip and maintains a remote forward basecamp and fuel cache for staging wildland firefighting operations out of. This camp contains tent frames and a kitchen area. Wildland firefighting crews are regularly posted here on a temporary basis, when the fire hazard gets high and forest fire starts are anticipated. [Henry Grierson, Forest Officer, Alberta Forest Service, Rainbow Lake Ranger District, 1982-1985, posted at Mobil Bistcho numerous times in this period]

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