HOW WILDFIRE WILL SHAPE OUR FUTURE E D W A R D S T R U Z I K Island Press’ mission is to provide the best ideas and information to those seeking to understand and protect the environment and create solutions to its complex problems. Join our newsletter to get the latest news on authors, events, and free book giveaways. Click here to join now! Firestorm Firestorm How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future Edward Struzik Washington | Covelo | London Copyright © 2017 Edward Struzik All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher: Island Press, 2000 M Street, NW, Suite 650, Washington, DC 20036 Island Press is a trademark of The Center for Resource Economics. Keywords: Alaska, Alberta, Arctic, arsenic, asbestos, Banff, biodiversity, boreal forest, British Columbia, California, Canada, carbon bomb, climate change, Colorado, Denver, drought, fire ecology, fire management, fire suppression, FireSmart, First Nations, Fort McMurray, Horse River Fire, hydrology, Montana, mountain pine beetle, oil sands, Ontario, permafrost, resilience, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Slave Lake, spruce budworm, water quality, watershed, Wood Buffalo Library of Congress Control Number: 2017940667 All Island Press books are printed on environmentally responsible materials. Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To my wife, Julia; my children, Jacob and Sigrid; and to firefighters and first responders everywhere. And to the First Nations people of Canada and the North American native people of the United States, with apologies for our failure to view wildfire the way you once did.