Great, well researched piece on a complex topic. We know how we got here (fire suppression,
climate change), but solutions are not as easy as the slogans suggest.
climate change), but solutions are not as easy as the slogans suggest.
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Tyler Olsen
8. Both sides of the coin are true, and it makes trying to manage BC's wildfire threat incredibly delicate. Other solutions, like prescribed fire, tend to be very hard to scale. You can read my full piece considering this dilemma here:
fvcurrent.com/p/modified-r...
fvcurrent.com/p/modified-r...
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I seems to me that while there is no “good smoke”, if prescribed burns are done well they have the potential to reduce smoke exposure as compared with long summers of high smoke levels for weeks at a time.