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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I've heard that something like 90% of the Canadian population lives within about 90 miles of the US boarder. As you mention, there is not a lot of infrastructure north of that. I've taken many a fly in fishing trip to NW Ontario. There are logging roads that go well north. The problem is the dirt roads only service logging areas and Indian reservations. There is no way to setup a fire line when the fires start burning out of control in those remote areas..
I see your point. We went 500 miles north into Manitoba one summer. I bet we traveled through 100 miles of nothing but trees with zero signs of people. There were about two stretches just like that.
If you like survival living off the land, that’s the place to be. Only two problems, the country is going full commie and their gun laws.
Six killed in Oregon by Japanese bomb
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/May-5/six-killed-in-oregon-by-japanese-bomb
The money to put those fires out is being intercepted by the politicians and the petty bureaucrats so that there’s none left for fighting fires. It’s the Hawaii/California grift modal.
I was a fisherman, so none of our crew had firearms. Pistols were/are verboten. Americans can cross the border with rifles as long as they meet Canadian regulations.
They were a part of US natural ecology as well, crucial to the health of the Great Plains. They will burn out with a change in the weather.
Give every Canuk a bucket, point them to a river, fill the bucket, point them to the fire, empty the bucket on the fire and repeat, and repeat, and repeat until the fire is put out. Then point the to the road home.
That would certainly be possible, with enough money and enough labor. Probably millions of workers and trillions of dollars. There is a LOT of forest in Canada.
And there were catastrophic wildfires long before the U.S. Forest Service began actively suppressing fires. Read about the Peshtigo fire of 1871, decades before there was any USFS.
The underbrush is no longer being harvested by brush pickers.
The small trees are not cut down for paths.
Roads that were once numerous, giving access for logging, offroading and camping, no longer exist.
In America, it was Clintons roadless initiative for forest lands, and I am sure the same in Canuckistan.
https://wfca.com/wildfire-articles/ecological-succession-after-a-forest-fire/
I hope the western provinces of Canada either secede or get full control over their affairs except for defense. The government of Alberta seems like it is sane.
” trillions of dollars”
Really ....... hmmmmm
Send me in with a hot dog ...
works when I go camping .... but I will need the trillion dollars
..... Bad management takes it’s toll.
it’s never cheaper to not do what needs to be done.
The same conditions have existed in Canadian forests for decades as have lightening strikes. Why only in the last few years have these fires burned unchecked?
Yes, I know. When I made my living fighting fires in the 70s and 80s, forest managers were aware of that even then, and we used fire quite a bit for fuel reduction. Even thinned trees with fire sometimes, though that could get tricky.
But there were decades of old-style put-every-fire-out-right-now forest management to correct, and that still isn’t done and likely will never be. Yes, theoretically it would be possible to groom every wooded area like a city park, so there were no uncontrolled fires at all, but that would cost a great deal more than any organization could pay. In the meantime, nature will catch up on the burning its own way.
If it needs to be done, you have to pay the price.
They always have, but it wasn't a political issue so you didn't hear that much about it.
Causing the flammable biomass to accumulate to catastrophic proportions.
I know you know that.
The "Spottted Owl" is disappearing because it's preferred habitat is burned hollow trees.
In a good year we get about 20 nice summer days.
This year, every one of them has been shrouded in heavy smoke.
Trust me, most folks around here don’t appreciate being Canada’s ashtray.
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