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On a rainy Friday in April, industry executives and government officials were sitting on the fourth floor of a Vancouver casino hotel. From the stage, a pitch for the future of forestry was on repeat: what if logging companies could be the heroes who saved British Columbia from wildfires?
B.C. and Canadian forestry associations aim to tell a story that places them as the 'hero' in a fight against wildfires. One critic says the strategy is 'mendacious and dangerous.'
Located on Morton Peak about 11 km east of Sicamous and 61 km NE of Vernon, the Mara Lake Lookout harkens back to a time when watchers would be placed atop a mountain to keep an eye out for forest f