Banff confronts post-wildfire recovery challenges
Monday, May 19, 2025, 8:20 am
On the edge of Banff National Park, the landscape bears the scarred remnants of the Jasper wildfire. Local experts and residents express mounting anxiety over the fragile recovery as new growth competes with dangerously charred stumps, raising fears that the next blaze might be even more dramatic.
Observant une prairie bourgeonnante aux souches noircies en bordure du parc national Banff, Cliff White désigne un bosquet sombre où se termine la parcelle vide.
In the race to mitigate the damage from future fires, stewards of Alberta’s parks have turned to loggers to create fire guards designed to starve a fire of fuel and create enough empty land for embers to fizzle out on the ground
In the race to mitigate the damage from future wildfires, stewards of Alberta's parks have turned to loggers to create fire guards
BANFF — Looking out over a budding meadow with blackened tree stumps on the edge of Banff National Park, Cliff White points to a dark thicket of trees where the empty plot ends. “The next fire in here is going to be incredible,” says the former Parks Canada fire management co-ordinator, standing in…
BANFF - Looking out over a budding meadow with blackened tree stumps on the edge of Banff National Park, Cliff White points to a dark thicket of trees where the empty plot ends.
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