Slave Lake Fire Another Incident in a Long Line of Wakeup Calls for Alberta (and Canada)

摘要

Iattended the technical session "Living and Working in the Shadow of Wildfire" sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Section of the Canadian Institute of Forestry and Alberta Sustainable Resource Development held in Edmonton on November 2nd. I commend the organizers for a job well done. I am, however, deeply concerned about how the general public and we the forestry profession in Alberta perceive the wildfire that tragically impacted the Town of Slave Lake on May 15,2011 and what we will do next. This wasnot a one-of-a-kind "finger of God" type of an incident.