Prevention, not recovery the key to successful B.C. wildfire season: Ecologist
The province has seen over 50 reported wildfires already and the season has hardly started.
On top of that, Gray says those fuels can be very difficult to extinguish if they catch on fire and typically eat up valuable provincial resources. “We went from a very quiet 2020 to the heat dome in 2021 and a bad fire season. What we can predict is that every three or four or five years we’re going to have a significant fire season, just because of increasing global temperatures, changes in weather patterns, increased drought, things like that. We might have a down year, or down two years, but we’re rolling the dice and eventually we will have a bad fire season.”“The el ninos that we’ve had have really driven global temperature.
“We’ve done a lot of fuel treatment, we’ve educated people about not starting fires and protecting their homes and stuff, so that it really doesn’t matter what kind of fire season we have because we are ready for it.”“I would invest massively in prevention and mitigation,” Gray said in response to what he would do if taking over the fire service in B.C.
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