Lessons From a Burning Forest

As a reporter, I’ve experienced the aftermath of several disasters, including dam bursts, landslides and floods. But nothing quite prepared me to witness the extent of the destruction in Canada’s boreal forests that I saw in June, one year after the record-breaking wildfires of 2023.At one point, my colleague Bryan Denton and I drove for an entire hour and saw almost no living trees in the forests we could see…