'If the way forests and fire are managed doesn’t change, B.C. will face many more catastrophic wildfire seasons.'
VICTORIA — British Columbia's independent forests watchdog is calling for the provincial government to make critical changes to how it manages forests to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires.
"The key is there's an urgency to this," board chair Keith Atkinson said in an interview. "We're obviously experiencing, maybe, our most severe year in front of us." It recommends B.C. develop a long-term fire management vision and action plan to support landscape resilience in forests that will span all levels of government.
Government data shows 45 per cent of B.C.'s public land, estimated at 390,000 square kilometres, is at high to extreme fire risk. A shift to landscape fire management would create more resilient forest areas that are less vulnerable to catastrophic wildfires, says the report, which cites the need for increased collaboration with Indigenous peoples on fire and forest management
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