#Canada - What happens to the millions of fire-damaged trees? #BC
> When the wildfire season mercifully ended in November, 2,217 #wildfires had been counted, 2.8 million hectares of land had been burned, including forested and non-forested land, and more than $770 million had been spent fighting fires and protecting communities.
> All told, since 2010 the total area consumed by wildfire in B.C. totals [..] about eight per cent of B.C.’s land mass...
https://theprovince.com/opinion/op-ed/joe-nemeth-wildfires-have-taken-too-big-a-toll-on-b-c #BCwildfires