Dr. Jen Baron
@jbaron.bsky.social
Postdoc & Incoming Asst Professor of Fire Ecology at UBC Okanagan | PhD at UBC Forestry | Associate Editor at Fire Ecology | Killam & NSERC Scholar
This publication was co-authored by a collective of leading wildfire and climate scientists in BC who, I can confirm, are familiar with the science of fire-climate relationships. However, the answer is more complex than warmer = more fire, fire = bad. We unpack this in the article.
January 15, 2025 at 7:28 AM
This publication was co-authored by a collective of leading wildfire and climate scientists in BC who, I can confirm, are familiar with the science of fire-climate relationships. However, the answer is more complex than warmer = more fire, fire = bad. We unpack this in the article.
Please read the article. Today’s fires are driven by the colonial exclusion of fire from Indigenous fire regimes interacting with industrial forest mgmt + climate change. Wildfire coexistence is about restoring the ecological and social role of fire to reduce the impacts of catastrophic wildfires.
January 15, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Please read the article. Today’s fires are driven by the colonial exclusion of fire from Indigenous fire regimes interacting with industrial forest mgmt + climate change. Wildfire coexistence is about restoring the ecological and social role of fire to reduce the impacts of catastrophic wildfires.