Photo by K via Pexels Wildfires play an integral role in forest regeneration by clearing underbrush, recycling nutrients, and triggering seed release. But with climate change, their severity and scale have increased sharply, often surpassing the natural range in which they provide ecological benefits. Reliable data on deaths and property loss is limited, since most […] More »

In the middle of the 2023 fire season, A Critical Incident Stress Management counsellor came to our fire base. The season had been unprecedentedly busy, even with wildfires ramping up in recent years, and my crew in southern British Columbia had racked up more than 70 days on the fireline with no sign of it […] More »