Nearly two dozen new wildfires spotted as BC continues to burn

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The sustained increase in the severity of wildfire seasons in B-C and across Canada has spurred the creation of a new research lab at Simon Fraser University.

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Assistant professor Sophie Wilkinson and four students at the Fire and Ecosystems Research Lab are looking at the impacts of wildfire and its behaviour.

Their goal is to develop ecosystem management strategies to mitigate the damage to forests and people from wildfires in a changing climate.

Wilkinson says they’re particularly focused on studying wildfire behaviour in western Canada, where the most severe fires can reduce peatlands’ ability to store carbon and affect the ability of forest ecosystems to recover.

B-C’s drought bulletin meanwhile shows nearly the whole province is experiencing drought, with the Fort Nelson basin in the northeast, the Bulkley basin and all of Vancouver Island classified at the most severe level.