After a particularly rough 2023 wildfire season, the ground council said it will begin fire mitigation efforts as soon as possible this year. Wildfire mitigation can include prescribed burning, forest thinning, pruning and mechanical removal of vegetation.
Parks Canada is being a large fireguard on the boundary between Yoho National Park and Banff National Park as wildfire season approaches and the state of the snowpack remains grim.
Rivers and reservoirs are at low levels never recorded. Alberta is working on its emergency plan and "water sharing" deals. A disastrously dry 2024 is already bringing back the "we're all in this together" message we heard not long ago.
The Canada Research Chair in Water Resources and Climate Change says eastern and southern Alberta are facing some of the worst drought conditions on record – including the Dustbowl years of the 1930s and the severe drought of 2001-01
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