The Okanagan Forest Task Force (OFTF) is set to tackle what it says is the biggest encampment cleanup it has ever undertaken.

President Kane Blake and other members toured the site near Okanagan Falls on Sunday, Nov. 12.

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Pictures posted to the OFTF website show a second mess, believed to have been left by the same people, a few kilometres up the road.

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It乌鸦传媒檚 also believed that the presence of these camps has led to multiple fires in the bush.

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Blake added that residents in the area have had enough.

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Since Sep. 2016, the OFTF has cleaned up more than 815,000 pounds of garbage from the Okanagan backcountry.

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