Canadian wildfire dangers should prompt more proactive mitigation from government: Experts
Environmental experts say that the Candian and U.S. governments need to take a more proactive approach at combating the root causes of growing wildfires. As Canada and the U.S. continue to feel the lasting effects of the ongoing wildfire s raging in the Great White North, environmental experts are pushing for long-term changes that they say can mitigate the damage from future blazes. And with climate change making these once unprecedented wildfire events commonplace, those experts said government s on both sides of the border need to act fast. "It has been an issue because we don't have a strong federal government and it's left us in this mess right now, Robert Gray, a wildland fire ecologist based in British Columbia, told ABC News. Smoke rises from hotspots flaring up in the Kimiwan wildfire complex in Northern Sunrise County, Alberta, Canada, June 24, 2023. Alberta Wildfire via Reuters Gray, who has studied wildfires in both the U.S. and Canada, said that higher tempe...