“scientists at the #CanadianForestService and the #UniversityOfAlberta projected that the annual footprint of #charred land in #Canada will more than double by 2050 and increase four-fold before century’s end. Some of the steepest increases will be in already hard-hit #WesternCanada, but also in swathes of northern #Ontario and #Quebec.
And those #fires will be fundamentally different—more beastly and less controllable”
'Mind Your Head'
After the fire - Birnbeck Tea Garden.
The room at the back with a tiny stage area
'The end of the Birnbeck Tea Garden'
Several tons of scalpings have been deposited against the end wall of the burned-out Tea Garden building. You walk over these stones now as part of the footpath down to the shoreline - which I'm stood on.
In the middle of the photo you can clearly see the tidal front on it's way into Clevedon Bay and the mud-flat it is covering.