YEs, that was not long after BC changed it's fire prevention policies. Now they left dead trees standing & stopped cutting firebreaks. Those were 2 things that those beetles didn't like, so they exploded.
Before WW2 small fires would go through forests every 10-15 years, burning up the underbrush & dead trees. Big trees survived them, in fact some require fires to seed! Now they've had 20-30 years of accumulation which causes huge, very hot fires that burn everything.
YEs, that was not long after BC changed it's fire prevention policies. Now they left dead trees standing & stopped cutting firebreaks. Those were 2 things that those beetles didn't like, so they exploded.
Before WW2 small fires would go through forests every 10-15 years, burning up the underbrush & dead trees. Big trees survived them, in fact some require fires to seed! Now they've had 20-30 years of accumulation which causes huge, very hot fires that burn everything.