Opinion: Solutions exist, but they demand a significant transformation of our forest management approach.
I grew up in a small town in the Northwest Territories, which left me with a passion for trees and our natural ecosystems.
Wildfires ravaged Canada’s landscape this year, scorching over 17 million hectares. From Halifax to West Kelowna to Yellowknife, fires consumed an area larger than England and more than double the previous record set in 1995. This is equivalent to the annual emissions of 478 million cars or over 12 years of emissions from oil and gas and exceeded those of 100 individual nations combined, according to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
Second, we must abandon the notion that forest preservation prevents wildfires. Instead, we should focus on reducing the age and density of our forests through comprehensive landscape-specific forest management plans. Finland provides a compelling example: Despite being just one third the size of B.C., it harvests more trees and has a 10-year average annual area burned of less than 300 hectares.
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