Large fires burning in Western Canada might last longer into fall, and even smolder through winter.
According to Greer, these workers' duties include conducting prescribed burns and working with local communities on fire prevention and mitigation."It's such a shifting situation with the climate right now," Greer said. "Who knows, next year could be flooding and tons of precip, so we have to be ready for everything."
What the new approach in B.C. offers, Greer said, is a clear path to a career fighting wildfires — something that wasn't available to him when he was a young firefighter decades ago. According to Whitman, the forest fire researcher, if areas of Alberta's boreal forest are repeatedly devastated, the trees in those spaces could change from dense collections of conifers to more spaced-out broadleaf species.
Still, Whitman noted that wildfires have shaped Canada's boreal forest for thousands of years, since the retreat of the glaciers that once covered Western Canada.
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