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This article was published by The Energy Mix<\/a> on July 29, 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n

By Gaye Taylor<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

This story includes details on the impacts of climate change that may be difficult for some readers. If you are feeling overwhelmed by this crisis situation\u00a0<\/em>here is a list of resources<\/em><\/a>\u00a0on how to cope with fears and feelings about the scope and pace of the climate crisis.<\/em><\/p>\n

As broken-hearted Jasperites begin to reckon with the full extent of their loss in the face of the inferno that consumed 30 per cent of their mountain town last week, wildfires continue to burn swathes of wilderness in B.C. and Alberta.<\/p>\n

Jasper Mayor Richard Ireland is himself among the broken-hearted, after the\u00a0family home<\/a>\u00a0he moved into at the age of two, 67 years ago, and where he then raised his own children, was taken by the\u00a0ferocious wildfire<\/a>\u00a0that overwhelmed his town last Wednesday night. At\u00a0latest report<\/a>, some 30 per cent of the buildings in Jasper were lost to the flames.<\/p>\n

Speaking right after seeing the incinerated ruin of his home, an evidently shattered Ireland\u00a0reiterated<\/a>\u00a0his message of the\u00a0ultimate healing power<\/a>\u00a0of \u201cshared heartbreak<\/a>,\u201d a message that also warned against recrimination and assigning blame.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a time like this, a time of disaster, it is so easy to look to blame. I\u2019m going to encourage people not to do that. There is no capriciousness here. There is no malice, there\u2019s no ill will. This is just nature doing what nature does, and there is no need to try and explain it,\u201d Ireland said.<\/p>\n

Citing an earlier question he\u2019d received about \u201cinevitability and preparation,\u201d Ireland called on the community to work together, looking forward, and not back: \u201cI am confident that huge portions of our town remain standing because of the work that was done in preparation and by the people on the ground. They are still there. They are still working.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ireland had previously warned Parks Canada for years that the fire hazard posed by a devastating pine beetle infestation could lead to Jasper becoming \u201cthe next Fort McMurray.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen what\u2019s happened in Slave Lake, we\u2019ve seen what\u2019s happened in Fort McMurray, and we don\u2019t want our community subjected to those impacts,\u201d Ireland\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0CBC News back in 2017.<\/p>\n

\u2018We Can\u2019t Be Complacent\u2019<\/h2>\n

A year later, two foresters from Prince George travelled to Jasper and reiterated their own concern that the town could soon face a \u201cmega-fire<\/a>\u201d if the \u201cfuel-bomb\u201d generated by the hectares of pine beetle-killed forest were not aggressively defused, using methods other than the prescribed burns that remain Parks Canada\u2019s go-to for dealing with the scourge of pine beetle infestations. (See\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0for a recent study on just how well the pine beetle is adapting to climate change.)<\/p>\n

The foresters made a strong plug for selective logging. So did Ireland, in his interview with CBC News.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we think there might be other methods, some sort of selective logging process, which is anathema to Parks Canada\u2019s mandate for ecological integrity, but this is such an unusual circumstance that we think allowances can be made to protect the community and those who live here,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t be complacent. We need to take action to try and do everything we can to safeguard the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

But another forester said trees damaged by pine beetles wouldn\u2019t be a major factor in the extreme conditions Jasper faced.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fire weather, as I understand it, for that Jasper fire was incredibly high, incredibly strong winds, very dry conditions, very little humidity. And what those extreme fire weather conditions do is they make the role of fuels actually not that important,\u201d\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0Patrick James, associate professor at the University of Toronto\u2019s graduate school of forestry. \u201cI don\u2019t think pine-beetle kill really played a role in this fire. I think this was an extreme heat, extreme wind, that really drove this fire to be as destructive as it was.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the Jasper townsite continues to smoulder, and the forests around it continue to burn, many are urging Canadian policy-makers to develop a comprehensive wildfire strategy.<\/p>\n

\u201cJasper reinforces just how much we need a national wildfire strategy to bring together all levels of governance within the business and Indigenous communities to map out a blueprint for how to better predict, prevent, mitigate, and manage fires, and how to provide small boreal communities with the resources they need to make them more resilient,\u201d\u00a0writes<\/a>\u00a0Ed Struzik, a fellow at the Queen\u2019s Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, in a recent post on The Conversation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf a fire can burn the town of Jasper in a national park that has the resources to deal with fire, what does the future hold for hundreds of small boreal forest towns across the country that do not have the means, know-how, or resolve to accept that fire will come someday?,\u201d Struzik adds.<\/p>\n

The pine beetle infestation looms large in Struzik\u2019s piece. He writes of helping Parks Canada fire manager Dave Smith conduct an aerial and ground survey to measure the infestation\u2019s progress through Jasper National Park back in 2011. He also recalls Smith telling him how he was having trouble sleeping at night as he worried, not only about all the dead, highly combustible trees in the park, but of the \u201cintense heat, extended droughts, and lightning that were intensifying in a rapidly warming world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Respecting Fire in a Climate Crisis<\/h2>\n

Thirteen years later, Struzik is urging policy-makers to spend at least as much on wildfire science as they do on wildfire suppression, and for everyone to re-conceive what wildfires represent, both in themselves, and in the context of the climate crisis. \u201cMore dark days may be coming unless we develop a culture, and political policies, that respect fire, drawing upon the wealth of valuable insights in Indigenous fire stewardship practices,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n

\u201cA century of fire suppression has left behind too many aging trees and not enough space for more resilient stands to be regenerated,\u201d he adds. He also calls out policy-makers like Alberta Premier Danielle Smith who, notwithstanding her recent\u00a0performance of abject grief<\/a>\u00a0over Jasper\u2019s catastrophic wildfire, continues her party\u2019s ongoing \u201cgutting<\/a>\u201d of provincial firefighting crews and budgets.<\/p>\n

Struzik also stresses the \u201cunequivocal<\/a>\u201d connection between an ever-worsening wildfire situation and the climate crisis. \u201cWildfire seasons will continue to worsen, and our political leadership must find a way to stop the madness of our addiction to oil and gas,\u201d he writes, citing a July 25 Facebook post by Rob Walker, a former Parks Canada fire and vegetation specialist.<\/p>\n

Stopping the madness will require holding the companies that furnish and enable that addiction to account. A May, 2023 study by Cambridge-based Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and the University of California, Merced\u00a0identified<\/a> 88 carbon-producing heavyweights that were responsible for 37 per cent of the wildfire losses in western regions of Canada and the United States between 1986 and 2021. Thirteen of the 88 were oil and gas companies operating or based in Canada, including five of the six that make up the Pathways Alliance oil sands lobby group.<\/p>\n

\u201cNews that firefighting resources were diverted from the Jasper firefight to protect the Trans Mountain pipeline that runs through the park is raising eyebrows, especially given the company\u2019s own recent assessment that the pipeline\u2019s wildfire risk was \u2018low,\u2019\u201d\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0The Narwhal.\u201d<\/p>\n

The latest Parks Canada\u00a0update<\/a>\u00a0has the 32,000-hectare fire \u201cstill burning to the north, south, and east of the Jasper townsite,\u201d with fire behaviour expected to increase \u201cas fuels continue to dry out.\u201d \u00a0The fire is now expected to burn for months,\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0CTV News Edmonton.<\/p>\n

West Kootenay Wildfires Worsen<\/h2>\n

In latest news from B.C., evacuation orders have been issued for the mountain village of\u00a0Slocan<\/a>\u00a0(pop. 400), in the West Kootenay region. Twenty-three kilometres due north of Slocan along Highway 6, the hamlet of Silverton remains under evacuation order as the threat posed by both the Aylwin Creek and Komonko Creek wildfires (both out of control, and now collectively engulfing 29 square kilometres of territory) continues.<\/p>\n

Located at the southern tip of Slocan Lake, Slocan is threatened by the Mulvey Creek (1,098 hectares) and Ponderosa (671 hectares) fires, both of which were sparked by the same lighting storm that set Aylwin and Komonko alight on July 17.<\/p>\n

The Mulvey fire is burning to the southwest of the Slocan townsite, on the west side of the Slocan River, in Valhalla Provincial Park. The Ponderosa fire is centred a few kilometres southeast of Slocan, on the east side of the river. The evacuation order issued for Slocan also covers 400 properties on both side of the river, as far south as\u00a0Lemon Creek<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The evacuation of Slocan and points south comes three days after\u00a0Argenta and Johnson\u2019s Landing<\/a>, both small farming communities at the northeast end of Kootenay Lake, were evacuated away from a wildfire now burning out of control on a mountain slope behind them.<\/p>\n

Some 30 kilometres north of Argenta, four hikers trapped on the Macbeth Ice Field by another advancing wildfire were rescued last week by a Kaslo Search and Rescue team searching for them by helicopter after they sent an SOS via text message.<\/p>\n

\u201cEmbers were falling on their tent so they ran for their lives,\u201d Kaslo Search and Rescue team member Mark Jennings-Bates\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0CBC News.<\/p>\n

Bates added that the dramatic rescue, which involved the helicopter flying through heavy smoke, should remind everyone of the need to be prepared to flee at a moment\u2019s notice during the province\u2019s wildfire season. \u201cHave a plan, make sure people know that plan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

While the West Kootenay has seen a cooling trend over the past few days, intense heat is due to settle back into the drought-stricken region by Thursday.<\/p>\n

Relief in Barkerville and Golden, Northern Alberta Still Burning<\/h2>\n

Elsewhere in B.C., there is considerable relief in the historic town of Barkerville, which has been saved (for now) from being devoured by the Antler Creek wildfire (still out of control, 14,293 hectares) by a combination of cooler weather and the efforts of the B.C Wildfire Service and local staff. Teams worked around the clock to protect \u201cthe largest living history museum in western North America\u201d from the flames with a \u201cspiderweb\u201d of sprinklers and hoses,\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0the CBC News.<\/p>\n

Golden residents are likewise breathing a bit more easily as the same cooler weather, plus a similar all-out effort, protected their mountain town of 4,000 from the Dogtooth Forest Service Road fire (out of control, 5,445 hectares). At latest report, wildfire crews and the local fire department were \u201cmaking good progress\u201d on the 55-square-kilometre blaze that destroyed as many as six homes on the outskirts of Golden last week.<\/p>\n

B.C.\u2019s longest-running and largest \u201cwildfire of note,\u201d the Shetland Creek blaze (22,000 hectares), continues to burn out of control 130 kilometres southwest of Kamloops, with the hamlet of Spences Bridge (pop. 140) currently under an evacuation alert.<\/p>\n

In Alberta, fires in the\u00a0Cattail Lake Complex<\/a>\u00a0north of Fort McMurray continue to burn out of control, with the largest, at 106,725 hectares, less than seven kilometres northeast of oil sands operations. A second smaller fire (17,814 hectares) is burning seven kilometres to the south.<\/p>\n

Some 5,500 members of Little Red River Cree Nation remain under evacuation order as the six wildfires in the sprawling Semo Complex continue to burn out of control, threatening the communities of Garden River, John D\u2019or Prairie, and Fox Lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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