Kyle Debolt Crowsnest Fire Redone Ghi

Notes de l'éditeur

1. “ Immediately. I didn’t know what to take,” says Hruby, recalling her anxious departure. “You start doing crazy things.” Hruby then drove about 20 km west along the valley, sat down on a rock ledge overlooking Crowsnest Pass and watched the flames veer down on Hillcrest. Despite her horror, she couldn’t stop looking. “I felt masochistic, sitting on the outcropping,” Hruby recalls. “But those flames were like a magnet.”
2. For example, burnt bark is undesirable from a lumber perspective but de-barking the trees keeps the chips clean and reduces carbon content. There are also ecological pros and cons. Certainly a burned area is black and looks devoid of life but over time burned area also creates diversity. A burned area creates ecological diversity and allows for the development of rich undergrowth that wasn’t there before.