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Canada's wildfires may be impossible to extinguish?
American Thinker ^ | August 6, 2025 | Eric Utter

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...

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors
KEYWORDS: canada; fire; forestfire; lightning
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

“If it needs to be done, you have to pay the price.”

And isn’t that so true in every walk of life?
A simple statement, and so foundational, .....
but ignored or misunderstood by so many today.

Short cuts and can kicking have been the theme for years.
Thank God we finely have a leader that understands this.

Now ... if we will keep prying the dead wood off the benches
we can extinguish the fire of liberal hate that burns in our cities
and ..... fan the flames of Freedom once again.


41 posted on 08/06/2025 5:24:17 PM PDT by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
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To: Texas Eagle

Could they dump maple syrup on the fire?
Is it flammable or will it put the fires out?....


42 posted on 08/07/2025 12:36:23 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Making money now. Still want much more.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Wildfires are a natural part of the ecology.”

So are humans


43 posted on 08/07/2025 12:52:58 AM PDT by 1756-L85E
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To: 1756-L85E

Canadian Man Fined $28,872.50 for... WALKING IN THE FOREST!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgVKzDNZYLI


44 posted on 08/10/2025 12:01:04 AM PDT by Texan4Life
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