How Fire Suppression Contributed to the Fires in Eastern Canada

Part One of a history of Canada Fire and ecology

Fire has always been a part of Canada’s ecology, but many have forgotten (or never known) its presence and historical significance.

But you wouldn’t know that by reading the news. Recently, the Washington Post published “Why Canada’s are extreme and getting worse, in 4 charts.” Here, there is no mention of fire suppression except to say that:

“Over the pa…