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2017 was the worst wildfire season in British Columbia history. As early as July 7, the province declared a state of emergency as upwards of 200-plus separate fires raged across the province.
Nick Raeside worked at many jobs in the logging business but the one that he specialized in was starting fires—small, (hopefully) controlled fires used to clean up logging slash
Like many British Columbians in 2017, Claudia Cornwall found herself glued to the news about the disastrous wildfires across the province. Her worry was personal: her cabin at Sheridan Lake had
Prescribed burning is widely used as a forest management tool. This paper quantifies the impacts of fires of different severity on woody debris and soil organic horizons. Three low-severity spring
First published in 1980 to high acclaim, Burning Water won a Governor General's Award for fiction that year. A rollicking chronicle of Captain Vancouver's search for the Northwest Passage, the book
Fire is a defining element in Canadian land and life. With few exceptions, Canada's forests and prairies have evolved with fire. Its peoples have exploited fire and sought to protect
The objectives of this study were to develop estimates of smoke emissions from wild and prescribed fires in B.C. forests during 1981--90, and to compare these with amounts that
In this incendiary debut collection, activist and poet Cicely Belle Blain intimately revisits familiar spaces in geography, in the arts, and in personal history to expose the legacy of colonization
"Frightening...Firestorm comes alive when Struzik discusses the work of offbeat scientists." --New York Times Book Review "Comprehensive and compelling." --Booklist "A powerful message." --Kirkus "Should be required reading." --Library
