Sage Podcast: Forest Fires Are Normal and Necessary. We Just Have to Stop Making Them Worse

Canadians need to reckon with growing wildfire footprints, including more frantic evacuations, more community destruction, and smoke infesting urban areas and even crossing international borders. As wildfires dominate the headlines, Sage explores the decades of misguided fire suppression practices, the complications from climate change, and the policy solutions available to resilient societies to both manage and combat the blazes,

Kelsey Winter, Executive Director at the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre, and JP Gladu, an Anishinaabe leader from northwest Ontario educated as a forester, join Sage hosts Allan Gregg and Edward Greenspon to answer these questions and offer some surprising perspectives.

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