It's a very general question and I'm not sure how to answer that.
Again, it depends. British Columbia is in a unique situation, in the sense that most of our lands are Crown-owned and we have expansive forests out there. As compared to other countries, the challenge involves the magnitude and the number of pests that are happening in our forests, all at one time.
From what I understand, other places have had epidemics before, but it's been an epidemic of this, and then it's gone, and then another one comes along. Historically, it was nice 20 years ago, when we had that opportunity in British Columbia. Right now, what we're seeing in British Columbia are the effects of climate change.
As I said, I really believe that, based on the information and the science I've read. In a sense, we have multiple pests happening at the same time or rolling over each other. That is a real challenge to deal with, because you can do one action for one pest, but it may not be the right action for the next pest. If they're rolling over each other, it's really a matrix decision-making assessment, with the right people in the room and the knowledge base, because we haven't seen this before. Even our researchers are grappling for the answers because they've been able to study one at a time, not this overlap and continuum that we're seeing with forest pests right now.
I guess that's how I would answer.
