Human intervention has made forest fires more devastating, experts say

August 6, 2003
Source: Vancouver Sun
Original story - link verified on August 6, 2003

Years of human intervention to put out forest fires has created out-of-control blazes with devastating results like those currently seen in British Columbia and Alberta, experts said Wednesday. Reese Halter, founder and president of Global Forest Science, a research institute based in Banff, Alta., and San Francisco, said forests adapted to the natural cycle of lightning-caused fires long before people began putting out every forest fire that came along.

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