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Posted on 08/06/2025 12:32:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Albany Times Union headline read:
Not so easy: Dousing the Canadian wildfires may not be possible.
It may not be possible to put out the Canadian wildfires?! Humans learned how to fly. Americans and Canadians have won two world wars.
Mankind has been to the moon and sent unmanned craft around the solar system -- and beyond.
And Canada can’t put out a fire?
Humans invented fire — or the planned use of it — around 800,000 years ago.
Almost concurrently, they learned how to extinguish it.
No matter the scope and location of today’s fires, it is surpassingly strange that we can’t put them out 800,000 years later.
The Times Union article went on to sanguinely note:
There is apparently little that can be done to stop or prevent the out-of-control wildfires tearing through much of northwest Canada - some engulfing over 250,000 acres.
These fires can’t be stopped…or even prevented?!
Apparently, there are no roads or infrastructure in many of the remote areas where these fires are burning. And, according to Paige Fischer, an associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Environment and Sustainability, "There aren't areas where people are actively managing forests."
So there clearly are things that could be done to extinguish and even prevent the fires: construct the necessary infrastructure and actively manage the forests.
Imagine that!
Fischer added that almost two-thirds of the fires in Canada are ignited by lightning-- and that those fires tend to be by far the most destructive. She also noted that Canadian forests include the Black Spruce tree “which is a flammable species.” She further stated that the presence of lighting and any flammable species is outside the country's control and thus complex to manage.
Guess what? We have Black Spruce trees in the...
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Uh, winter? Oh, I forgot. No snow.
Just spitballin'.
200 PERCENT SMOKE TARRRIF.
Because Japan launched about 9,000 Fu-Go incendiary balloon bombs intended to start tons of forest fires in the U.S. That's one reason I don't lose sleep over the A-bombs.
Fire did not exist before the first human beings? Learn something new every day.
It’s normal to let such huge fires burn until the rainy / snowy season puts them out. Nothing new.
I always feel terrible about the wild animals killed in fires, from the lowliest mouse to the large deer and moose.
Canada simply does not have the resources or infrastructure to deal with the fires.
Yep.
😢
Not all of these.
Spending some time in Chicago right now at a conference with a couple of priests from Saskatchewan. They told me there have been arrests in the north for arson. According to them, some of the arrests were made on people who set fires in order to obtain work as firefighters.
The Times Union is a liberal rag.
Talked to one of the people i dealt with who was head of a major forest products corporation. Yesterday.
Over 700 separate fires, over 16 million acres burned.
Around 200 or so of those fires are left to burn without any attempt to fight them at this time.
“Head of a major corporations area forestry division.”
Impossible to extinguish? Forest fires will ALWAYS extinguish themselves at some point.
You don’t think the chemtrails are making it impossible to put out? What happened to that theory?
Well, at some point, they should run out of fuel.
I’m not too familiar with those forests in Canada but if it is like the BC forests they have planted single species commercial trees which are hard to keep healthy and when the fire goes they burn like grass. But it’s all natural. It will burn, and it will grow back.
Wildfires are a natural part of the ecology. Preventing them until the flammable biomass builds up to catastrophic proportions is not natural.
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And for at least the past 100 years these unmanaged forests did not burn, despite lightening storms that must have happened over that time. Why now?
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