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As officials keep a close eye on potential flooding in parts of B.C. this weekend, University of British Columbia researchers are calling on the province to change forestry practices as a way of safeguarding against flood risk long-term.
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It is time to adopt more sustainable forestry policies and practices and to acknowledge the role that healthy forests play in reducing the world’s rising flood danger.
Dr. Younes Alila and his graduate student Henry Pham found that the “severely and consistently underestimated” impact of forest cover greatly affects B.C. flood risks.
They synthesized decades of hydrology studies and found that many “severely and consistently underestimated” the impact of forest cover on flood risk.