Congrats to MSc Saeid Parsian on the defense of his thesis: "Quantifying veg. structure and fire fuels in montane pine forests impacted by mountain pine beetle using RPAS multi-spectral, photogrammetric, & lidar" @Jasper National Park. Saeid developed novel methods to improve wildfire fuel metrics

Bow Valley can't be fireproof, so officials work on resilience against future wildfire threats | CBC News Expert says mitigation will only go so far, as wildfires like the one last year in Jasper continue to threaten mountain towns due to climate change.

Great story (though I might be biased) about the challenges of protecting communities from wildfires.

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I encourage people from every province who recognize Doug Ford will be Trump’s entry point into Canada to get as loud as they can at Ontario.

Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’

USAID, NOAA …

The 2023 wildfires in British Columbia, Canada: impacts, drivers, and transformations to coexist with wildfire In 2023, all regions of British Columbia (BC) experienced record-breaking fire weather and wildfires, with extreme behavior and social-ecological effects. In total, 2245 wildfires burned 2840 545 hect...

Editor's Choice - Canadian Journal of Forest Research Feb. 2025. The 2023 wildfires in British Columbia, Canada: impacts, drivers, and transformations to coexist with wildfire led by Professor Lori Daniels @loridanielsubc.bsky.social Give it a read cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10....

All beautiful places! And definitely agree with staying here

That's wonderful! Where are you going?

The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

Anyone concerned about what’s going on in the US right now—namely, the illegal coup by a band of criminals and oligarchs (including the illegal tariffs imposed on 🇨🇦 and 🇲🇽)—read this excellent piece by Timothy Snyder, whose books include “On Tyranny,” and most recently, “On Freedom.”

On #WorldWetlandsDay: Unburned "fire refugia" peatlands following the intense #Jasper Fire Complex 2024