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Tremont wildfire approaches Logan Lake on Aug. 14, 2021. Forest thinning and the removal of debris on the forest floor, in forests surrounding community, are credited with helping to save the town of 2,000.On a cool mid-March day, Garnet Mierau stood in the forest at the north edge of the town of Logan Lake in the B.C. Interior. He stood on a boundary of sorts. On one side, the ground and standing trees are badly burned, some like blackened match sticks.
The less-damaged area has been worked on before the fire to reduce the intensity and spread of wildfire: thinning timber, cutting underbrush and the lower limbs of trees, and removing woody debris from the forest floor. It is designed to keep fire on the ground, away from the upper reaches of the tree canopy where it can spread rapidly.Article content
The treatment is credited with helping keep Logan Lake from being overwhelmed by a raging wildfire last summer. “If government ever had an opportunity, it is now. There’s a wide recognition that global warming is here and that fire is a having an effect on us. It has burned homes and displaced people.” — Wayne Carson, former fire chief for the northwest side of Okanagan Lake
Logan Lake represents a best-case scenario for B.C. communities, but it is an anomaly. Read more about the shift needed in how we manage our forests in
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