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Rifleman wrote:

It has to be one of the worse years I can remember for the sheer size of some of these fires burning. I imagine all those pine beetle killed trees make for great kindling. There should be lots of new hunting areas in a few years when these burns start coming back with deciduous growth. Might take a century in some areas, for a good forest to reappear.

I agree. While living with all that smoke around can be quite unpleasant at this time, I'm sure that there's a lot of dead pine that is being burned up.
In a couple of years there will be a ton of deciduos growth and more great game habitat in the Cariboo.
Currently, there is an enormous amount of dead standing timber past any economic value. A good lightning fire is part of the solution in my view.
My son has been tree planting in the Cariboo for the past 3 years. This year, for the first time, he did some understory planting - planting seedlings in a standing dead forest, so clearly the forestry companies have arrived at the same conclusion.