Replanting pine monocrops and spraying and brushing the fire-resistant deciduous is the equivalent of draining a patient of blood to cure an infection.
If you attended the Council of Forest Industries conference in Prince George last week, you would have seen a lunatic outside with a couple signs.Now I say lunatic, but maybe you haven’t heard the spiel about our broadleaf trees before - the aspen, birch and cottonwood. Maybe all you’ve ever heard is that these are the “weed trees.” They aren’t the “money trees.”
It’s all we’ve been hearing about. David Eby talked about it. Bruce Ralston talked about. All the industry analysts talked about it. These two scourges have destroyed the timber supply, we are told, and for this reason our already decimated forest sector must suffer more. If fire and pine beetles are the problem, we are doing everything within our powers to make this worse!Now this may come as news, but one of the greatest fire fighters on the landscape is our aspen forests.
A pure aspen patch, with no conifer, with healthy trees, and with leaves on them, will not sustain crown fires, even in the most extreme fire conditions. Pine are exponentially more flammable. Those are indisputable facts.
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