The Nova Scotia wildfires are not 'natural' disasters: Climate change, forest management, and human folly are all to blame. Four forestry specialists offer their views on how to reduce the wildfire risks.

Before we even start talking about forests and the recent wildfires, Wade Prest wants to tell me a story about Nova Scotia’s forests of yore. Prest is a woodlot owner, professional forester and former president of the Nova Scotia Woodlot Owners and Operators Association, whose family settled in Mooseland in the 1870s. That area – […]