Letters to the Editor, Week of Aug. 30, 2023

Editor, We appreciate CDN's in-depth reporting about the growing wildfire risk here (CDN, Aug. 25, 2023). There's more to the story, though: Bellingham's urban forests don't show up on the local wildfire risk assessment map that DNR and others use. Yet the Arboretum, Samish Crest, Whatcom Falls Park and Lake Padden Park are all prime candidates for a mega-wildfire in our new hotter, drier, extended summers. Since wildfires tend to spread by a self-generated windstorm of flying ashes, st