BWCA Fire Risk to Linger
20 Nov
Despite two straight years in which wildfires burned large swaths of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, further large fires in the area are likely in the future, the Duluth News-Tribune reports HERE.
The popular canoeing destination suffered a massive blow-down of trees in 1999 — 275,000 acres of forest was severely damaged in the storm — which provides ready fuel for wildfires.
Fire risk that forest managers thought would decrease by 2009 is now projected to remain until 2017 or longer, John Myers story reports.
