'Wonderfully combustible surface': City foresters, fire crews assess risk of river valley wildfires

The city is upgrading its approach to assessing fire risk in the expansive river valley.
The 2,000 continuous hectares of river valley land that allow Edmonton to claim the title of world’s largest urban park is widely regarded as the city’s finest feature.
But having swaths of forest in the middle of the city also raises questions about the risk of forest fire, particularly in the wake of the destructive wildfire that ripped through the city of Fort McMurray in 2016, destroying thou