Sparse forests up in the hills where it is cooler, such as Highland Valley, but Ashcroft and Cache Creek are low altitude desert areas, sagebrush, cactus and tumbleweeds except where ranchers irrigate from the South Thompson, Bonaparte creek, Barnes Lake or other water sources. Good luck stopping a wildfire in one of those areas. 

One of my high school biology projects was a study of a spring west of Ashcroft that a rancher piped to where the road going North from Ashcroft merges with the TCH West of Cache Creek.

Thank you for showing the sterotypical feeble denier grasp of reality.

When I lived in Ashcroft and worked in Cache Creek from 1966 to 1974 the sort of whirlwinds that you see on film in "Lawrence of Arabia" could regularly be seen raising dust into the air.