Mountain Town News: Even as snow falls, rising worries about fire season

WHISTLER, B.C. — As the snow falls, wildfire season weighs on many minds in ski towns of the West. California’s Camp Fire has been fully contained, but the still-rising death toll, the highest in the state’s history, gives new urgency to planning.
Whistler has understood its vulnerability, already considerable but rising with the heat of every new record-breaking summer. Winters haven’t changed all that much: more snow in the last 40 years on average and slightly …read more

Via:: Summit Daily