Gordon Clark: Metro Vancouver’s urban forests a fire risk, too

Lower Mainlanders who think they are immune from the devastating forest fires that have forced the evacuation of 40,000 people from the Interior should think again.
That’s what University of B.C. associate forestry professor Lori Daniels said Monday when I called her about a concern I’ve had for some time about urban forests in Metro Vancouver.
I walk my dog every day in Pacific Spirit Regional Park (which I still can’t help calling the University Endowment Lands) and I’v