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Dad, Asst Professor, @UBCO, Earth observation & Spatial Ecology Lab, GIS, “Bear-ology” and lots of fire
Jul 31, 2021 19 tweets 8 min read
Fire has dominated the news cycle recently for good reason. People have died. A BC community destroyed, thousands are evacuated, and the sky is once again filled with smoke. This is beyond a crisis and we need to respond with urgency. #bcpoli #Wildfires🧵
news.ok.ubc.ca/2021/07/29/sci… In a white paper (link above) collaborators and supporters lay out the problem: our current strategies for landscape management and fire suppression are no longer sustainable or effective. We need to proactively mitigate wildfire risk and we need to act now. So what is at play?