Did the Federal Government and local authorities in Jasper fail to apply established forest management techniques diligently in the past to keep the town’s inhabitants and their property safe? Past pronouncements from Government officials seem complacent… But they shouldn’t be. In 2017 and 2018, I expressed concerns on this topic in two letters to local papers. …in 2017 I attended a mountain pine beetle seminar in Jasper and … was stunned that nobody attended who had anything to do with Jasper National Park. …In 2018, I was told that control work at Jasper was limited due to sensitive soils… It seemed incredible that the administration the possibility of damaged soils higher than the town’s safety. …Now they’re blaming the fire on climate change. But as Jamie Sarkonak recently wrote in the National Post, it’s bad management forest management that’s behind it. And yes, some of us did try to raise the alarm years ago.