Officials weigh economic impacts, ecological effects before deciding how to attack blazes, but it’s a difficult balancing act
Vancouver Sun
As British Columbia’s resource managers reach a middle ground in allowing wildfires to naturally shape the province’s forests, it is becoming an uneasy truce for communities already dealing with the dislocations of a shrinking timber supply due to mountain pine beetle infestations. “We’ve realized not all fires are bad,” said Lyle Gawalko, head of fire management for the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Resource Operations. ..Archie MacDonald, general manager of forestry for the Council of Forest Industries, added that such fires have a longer-term impact on timber supply. …There are also consequences in not changing forest-fire-management practices, according to Lori Daniels, an assistant professor UBC’s faculty of forestry.
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