Connecting the dots between clear cut logging and BC’s mega-floods
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Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Vancouver based filmmaker Daniel J Pierce just released a film that attempts to connect the dots between clearcut logging and the mega-floods wreaking havoc on the BC Interior.
He acknowledges that the climate is changing and there was an extreme event, but says this is only half of the story.
“We have loaded the dice in favour of more of these such events by so badly degrading the hydrological functioning of the ecosystem.”
Pierce cites scientific papers like:
XuJian Joe Yu, Younes Alila, “Nonstationary frequency pairing reveals a highly sensitive peak flow regime to harvesting across a wide range of return periods”Forest Ecology and Management (2019).
Kim Green & Younes Alila, “A paradigm shift in understanding and quantifying the effects of forest harvesting on floods in snow environments,” Water Resources Research (2012).
Tom Bradley, “A Brief Literature Review of the Mountain Pine Beetle,” Silva Ecosystems Consultants Ltd (1993) Revised and updated by Herb Hammond and Erik Leslie (2003).
He has been documenting forestry issues since 2008.
Last March, Pierce released a video about the flood that destroyed part of Grand Forks in 2018.