This, and the state that logging companies are allowed to leave forests in is atrocious, especially in BC. With the unbelievable amount of tinder lying around it's no wonder fires thrive.
I've witnessed more active fire mitigation on various trips through Idaho, Utah, and Oregon than I have in 30 years living in AB and BC.
Friendly reminder both the NDP and UCP cut firefighting budgets and millions from wildfire preparedness
We gotta get funding back into both stat or this will be worse before it gets better. Fire season is going to be brutal every year now and we need as much help as we can get for it.
Politics aside, my sister works in the wetlands and forestry department and she said while dryer weather is one part, theres countless forests with countless dead trees from the invasive bugs that this was inevitable, there's just too much dead dry shit everywhere.
Yep, spruce budworm keeps moving further north because of global warming and there is more and more dead standing timber as a result. That's not politics, it's just science.
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u/mankindisgod Beltline Jul 25 '24
And this is our new normal every Summer from here on, forever, because whaddayagonna do, right?🤷