Trails beside a river bank are not forever.
Dams blocking rivers are an even bigger problem than river bank trail erosion. The dams contain natural sediment that eventually fill dams with mud. Imagine all of the mud eroded from rivers above BC's many dams being contained instead of flowing to the Pacific.
We can live with failed trails and bank erosion, but when dams fill up with mud, BC is in trouble.
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For a change I will give credit to the BC Forest Service. They responded quickly with air support, they surrounded this small lightning caused fire with retardent until they could get ground access, initial attack crews and air repel crews from Smithers for the Sam Ross Creek fire. The fires south east of Fraser Lake were equally well responded with air tanker, helicopters and attack crews. This was done on a long weekend. They didn't wait until tuesday and wednesday for much needed rain.
Well done BC Fire Service.
Fraser Lake had enough burning in 2017, we do not need any more burning in this area.
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What Canadians need is a warning about extreme left wing politics that have even weaponized weather reporting to push radical agendas.
The weather right now is 'Very Hot" It is debatable if weather like this should be reported as "Extreme" like this article claims. Maybe if it was 40* C I would agree that would be 'Extreme' But 30* C has always happened in summer in this area at some time.
It is tiresome to look at a weather report and see that it is from the Climate Change angle, not a weather angle.
Weather reporting and climate change are two different things.
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The Premier of BC was quick to report on this mining accident.
Just wondering if the Premier of BC would be so quick on getting into the news cycle if an EV battery fire was threatening nearby people?
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The leaky condo crisis in the Lower Mainland is another example of government more or less shutting down a segment of the economy to small owner operator builders in the construction industry.
Large condominium builders made huge mistakes with faulty buildings and who paid. Number one small builders were shut out of the new home construction market with extreme new rules and regulations. Number two consumers are losing out with the restriction in competition that has made new homes more expensive for everyone. The big guys made most of the mistakes and the little guy pays and pays. Small builders paid with losing part of their work and consumers pay higher prices.
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Gates and fences make good neighbours, but only to a certain point where human ingenuity takes over human good intentions.
I do not know how the gate was opened.
But some possibilities-Someone gave someone a key that should not have a key.
Or- bolt cutters or some other common break and enter tool.
Or -someone forgot to lock the gate.
Or-who knows.
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Exactly on point. The real problems need to be addressed.
This editorial sugar coats the real problem by using the word 'homeless'.
Mental health and addiction is the reason for 'homeless'.
Penalties for illegal drug use are nonexistent and penalties for distributing illegal drugs are a joke.
A real editorial would have gone a little further into exposing the problem that exist in our court system.
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OK. I will take the bait on your loaded question.
Why! Because the doors are locked from the outside in the Youth Containment Centre.
This idea of containment totally violates the radical left ideas of catch and release.-Catch and release- Catch and release- Catch and release..........................
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The only basic rule being followed is a desire to be self destructive and to self destruct the environment that they live in. Sad reality.
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The key words in this article are "mature stands". Yes the trees in the Central interior are "OLD". Old pine trees in particular get attacked by Pine Beetles, are blow down in wind storms and they are getting "Old". The native oral history of Central BC says that the Central part of BC basically burned out in the the late 19th Century. 125 years later the regrown trees are burning again. Maybe we should log more "Old" or just about dead trees. A typical pine tree lives about 80-100 years. We would have to make them into pulp or pellets, the Americans no longer want 2X4's. Environmentalist prefer that these "Old" pine trees are turned into forest fire smoke and huge fires that takes out the spruce and fir at the same time..
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