Photo courtesy of Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press Files |
The boreal forests are the largest forests in the world, and in Western Canada, they have evolved to burn once every century. However, one patch of forest burned for the second time in a decade. More frequent, bigger wildfires, fueled by climate change, are a formidable challenge to the black spruce, a species that has dominated these landscapes for thousands of years.
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