Parks Canada said the work it is doing now will not only help mitigate wildfire risk but also strengthen the forests against mountain pine beetle.
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This season, about 34 hectares of forest with be thinned — the equivalent of about 48 Canadian-sized football fields. The forests in Banff National Park are not only old and beyond what is considered their natural burning cycle, but“There’s been a long standing question of do these mountain pine beetle outbreaks actually lead to higher incidents of fires, but also a higher severity of fires — and some preliminary findings show yes that they do,” said Chris Bone, an associate professor at University of Victoria who is studying the impacts of mountain pine beetle on wildfire risk.
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