Robert W. Gray

fire ecologist

Robert W. Gray is a B.C.-based fire ecologist with over four decades of experience in fire management across North America. He emphasizes the importance of prescribed burns in reducing fuel loads in grassland ecosystems like the Okanagan, arguing that without them, wildfires will continue to reignite in previously burned areas. Gray has voiced concerns about the increasing intensity of wildfires due to climate change and the detrimental effects of fire exclusion practices that have altered the natural landscape.