Wow, one careless cigarette and poof! Fire is a huge concern to me with all of the dead, dry wood around. Chester

Maybe they should name that particular road, "Dave Zirnhelt Drive".

Fire is as much a part of natural systems as rain and wind are and in fact is in almost every way very good for forest systems. The only way it not being a good thing is when you look at it from the perspective of greedy, selfish humans who look at EVERYTHING in terms of how it will benefit "ME". Humans are the only animal on the planet that want to constantly fight nature and then complain and moan when nature bites back.

Anyone heard the expression, " You reap what you sow "?

The way we have been sowing selfishness and greed on this planet I'm fully expecting nature will bite back harder and harder. We are only seeing the beginning.

It's a timebomb just waiting to explode.If you have seen it from the air as I have,it will scare the hell out of you!
Some area's are worse than others but it is everyhere.
South and Southwest of PG,Vanderhoof,Kenny Dam area,the Blackwater,Fort St.James,Barkerville/Wells,and all through the Cariboo.Everywhere.
And it's still going.
If it ever gets started burning, it will go forever.
And our forest economy will be toast.
Mind you,it probably will be anyway a few years down the road, even without a fire.

I think greenhouse gass drive may be more appropriate....

In the 15th and 16th century shipbuilding based on oak was a key component of the English economy which allowed them to move throughout the world to access cheap forced labour and cheap resources.

Forests used to occupy 60% of the British land surface. They now occupy less than 8%. The British economy is no longer dependent on the forests.

Other countries went through similar processes of forest loss. They moved on with the times. People are relatively adaptable and so are the societies they create for themselves.

Large components of the forests will be back here one day, maybe even in Britain, but the industrial base will have changed in the process.

None of us will be around to see that. In the meantime consider us as the pioneers who will be those who will transition from one economic base to another.

Exciting times lie ahead.