A cluster of wildfires are burning in British Columbia, many of them on land that is already parched, marking the beginning of a season that has some officials planning for how to conserve water.
The couple of dozen fires burning are mostly in the southern and central Interior, a swath of the province that federal drought monitors list from “abnormally dry” to “severe drought.”
The Canadian Drought Monitor says a wet March in B.C. did not result in much improvement, and while drought rankings in several regions were downgraded, “long-term deficits” in the central Interior forced the dry label to be maintained….