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Wildfires have burned about seven per cent of Canada’s forests — roughly 27.3 million hectares — since 2023, and the country’s tree nurseries are wondering how they can possibly keep up.
Tree nurseries primarily rely on the logging industry for income. They produce the saplings that get replanted in logged areas. But after a wildfire, no one is responsible for replanting the forests — even if, when done well, reforestation can have benefits, like sequestering carbon and mitigating the risk of future wildfires.
Layman’s observation…to anyone who’s been inside old growth forests (forests with trees that are 800+ years old) and it’s surrounding lesser old growth forests, the humidity is on a different level than the ones that these so called ‘reforested’ areas are like. The forestry industry is not sustainable at the amount that we consume at. We will continue to see ‘wildfires’ because we’ve effectively destroyed the ecosystem in the last 100-200 years with mass deforestation and thought that replanting them would be ‘fine’. Turns out these artificially replanted forests aren’t so resilient after all…huh.