Year after year, B.C. keeps breaking wildfire records. The four worst seasons on record have all happened since 2017, and the consequences have been crushing — firefighters killed, an entire village virtually destroyed, and oppressive smoke blanketing communities across the continent.
If you follow the chatter online, you might run into a spirited debate about why this is happening.
Is it decades of overzealous fire suppression? Poor forest management? Criminalization of traditional Indigenous burning practices? Systematic destruction of more fire-resistant tree species?
Or is it climate change?
The answer is all of the above, according to wildfire experts.
“It’s not one thing that’s causing these really bad fire seasons,” said Jen Baron, a PhD
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