A large portion of BC is completely inaccessible by any means - which doesn't help. Lots of huge mountain ranges!
But the problem turns out to be climate change, oil usage and the BC Conservatives deciding that the pine beetle could be stopped by normal winters (after "normal" winters were already fading ... but this is hindsight ...). Ok they were called the "BC liberal party" but they were a hard-right conservative party and still are ... but I'm not sure if the large-scale pine beetle caused dead forests are still a factor... my last trip through one of the areas currently on fire (a couple of weeks ago) - I didn't see the characteristic red/dead pine trees that time and while I'm just an inhabitant, I was looking. (Banff through Kelowna area to Vancouver, as my usual Kamloops route was already being evacuated in parts then).
