Past firefighting success has made B.C. more vulnerable: expert

B.C. has been so successful at putting out wildfires in recent decades that it has actually created a situation where its forests are more prone to flames, says an expert.
Lori Daniels, an associate professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia, said firefighting efforts over the last 60 to 100 years have allowed for denser forests with a lot of dead material on the ground.
Now, when the province has hot, dry weather and lightning strikes or there is a human ignition, the fir