In the Okanagan, local leaders brace for a record drought.
Chief Robert Louie has spent anxious months watching as his people’s territory in BC’s Okanagan region has withered under weeks of unusually warm and sunny weather. Creeks that should have swollen with snowmelt this year carried little more than wisps of water, and last winter’s paltry snowpack melted fast, leaving the forests dry and primed to burn.
