Listen to the author reading this article (11:40) Fire has always fascinated me. Throughout my childhood, my father was the warden of a Boy Scout Association campsite in Worcestershire, England. Every weekend, he took my brother and me to that campsite in a small...
Listen to the author reading this article (15:04) In August a massive inferno the ‘Bush Creek East’ fire swept through the Shuswap region of British Columbia, forcing thousands of residents to flee their homes and communities. “All hell broke loose,” is how Denise...
Listen to the author reading this article (10:20) On August 17th from my office in the vineyards of East Kelowna, I could see a plume of smoke rising from the mountains behind West Kelowna. Wildfires are common in the Okanagan, especially as the summer gets hotter...
Listen to Mary Kean reading this article (19:54) Bob Gray was born in Guelph, Ontario to American parents. As a dual national, he learned about forests in British Columbia as well as Montana, New Jersey, and Arizona. In 1980 he was on his first “prescribed...
