From the Moscow-Pullman Daily News:
A wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alberta, destroyed 2,400 homes, displaced 100,000 people and burned at least 1.5 million acres last year, according to Paul Hessburg, a research landscape ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Research Station.
It was the largest wildfire in Alberta’s history and it was attributed to a warmer, drier and windier climate, Hessburg said.
“The evidence is clear that climate warming is having a huge effect on current megafires,” he said.
Could it be that political policies are driving the current wildfire epidemics?
You cannot log the forests. You cannot graze the forests. All that’s left is to let the forests burn.
