FRASER VALLEY CURRENT: Bureaucracy and 'balls': Why BC's forests are still full of wildfire fuel

 

BC says controlled burns can save communities; but bureaucracy and inaction has hobbled efforts to clear forests of fuel

Of all the ways to protect BC communities from increasingly furious wildfire seasons, few have been as widely endorsed as the tactical, controlled use of fire.

 

Both experts and provincial officials say fire is one of the best ways to clear forested areas of dangerous (and unnaturally large) amounts of dead underbrush and dry vegetation. But by all measures, BC’s governments are failing to meet the moment, leaving the province’s forests increasingly vulnerable not just to fire—but to intense, quick-moving firestorms that can overwhelm firefighters and destroy hundreds of homes ...

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