Scientists, residents see changes in ecosystem of forests that make regions ripe for conflagration
Ecologists who’ve spent years in the field studying the forest say they see new swings of extreme rainfall followed by drought in the region, an expanding range of insect pests that are making forests more susceptible to fire, and shifts in the rich soils and permafrost that absorb and store carbon from the atmosphere. These changes are now combining with past fire management practices that some critics say have worsened this year’s conflagration.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/canadian-fires-signal-new-frontier-in-climate-change-a57788b2
