thePodcast: Amid a fiery summer, Conservative leader Rustad says B.C. needs to rethink the way forests are managed, protected

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Aug 27 2023 | 00:32:49

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For the week of Aug. 27, 2023: Another long, hot, record, costly summer of wildfires around British Columbia. In some places, like around Kelowna, firefighters got the upper hand. But more than 200 houses are gone. The Forest Practices Board’s June report said B.C. needs to move toward landscape fire management, to co-exist with fire, but take steps to contain it. More than 96 million acres of public land are at high or extreme risk of wildfire in B.C., but only 1% of the wildland urban interface has been treated since 2018 at a cost of $72 million. Meanwhile, B.C. […]

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