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The principle of indigenous forestry management and controlled burns is great, but the bulk of the areas we're talking about that are burning this summer are in
by cmrdporcupine 3y ago
The principle of indigenous forestry management and controlled burns is great, but the bulk of the areas we're talking about that are burning this summer are in places where even pre-contact indigenous population density was extremely low.
I don't think most Canadians, let alone people outside this country, actually understand what the north is like. We're talking tens of millions of acres of muskeg (peat bog), granite, mostly stunted spruce, lakes, lakes lakes, and mosquitoes, with few to no roads.
In interior BC (where there are also fires this summer, as always), yes, I think indigenous fire keeping and forest floor management through controlled burns could be key.