Posted on 05/20/2023 6:40:00 AM PDT by nuconvert
The province of Alberta, Canada, home to more than four million people, is under a state of emergency, as nearly 100 wildfires burn, dozens of them out of control.
Since the first local state of emergency was declared on 4 May, over 782,000 hectares of land - 1.9 million American football fields or more than 3,000 square miles - have burned, local officials said.
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Still, there are 93 active wildfires in Alberta as of 12:00 EST (17:00 BST) on Friday, and experts say the end is nowhere in sight
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The same experts who are lighting them? Or different ones?
Alberta on high alert for wildfire upsurge over scorching holiday weekend
Firefighters in Alberta are on high alert for a surge in blazes over a long weekend in the oil-rich Canadian province, which is enduring throttled energy production, home evacuations and property damage after an intense start to the wildfire season.
Record-high temperatures and lack of rain this year have led to widespread fires burning nearly 830,000 hectares (2 million acres) of land in Alberta, about 10 times the size of the province’s largest city, Calgary, according to Alberta Wildfire.
https://news.yahoo.com/alberta-high-alert-wildfire-upsurge-120823901.html
The smoke has reached Spokane Valley and North Idaho. Winter ends, we get four or five weeks of glorious spring weather and now a summer of smoke. Ugh.
Heard this morning that Denver had the worst air quality (of big cities) in the world yesterday and 2nd worst today
Fire is a natural force in many ecosystems, often simultaneously destroying and restoring forest habitat. In the endangered limber pine forests of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, managers were unsure of whether fire may have a restorative aspect, and thus have potential for use in recovery of the species. Research on a similar species, whitebark pine, and a limited handful of limber pine studies from other habitats seemed to suggest that using prescribed fire in areas adjacent to established limber pine stands would stimulate the establishment of new stands. However, no studies had explicitly looked at the regeneration of limber pine following fire in an Albertan context.Apparently not. /s5.1 General conclusions Fire has been considered an agent of renewal in Alberta’s endangered limber pine ecosystems. Large, severe fires are thought to open habitat to which Clark’s nutcrackers, as long-distance seed dispersers, will promptly cache seed, allowing limber pine to colonize new habitat. However, the relationship between limber pine and fire has received limited attention, with this study being the first to examine natural post-fire regeneration in the northern extent of its range.
Some of these fires are undoubtedly terrorist acts. Some of them are opportunity because native firefighters make a good living when they are working.
The smoke is bad here in Eastern Washington. Summer is just getting started and already we have 1970s San Fernando Valley air quality.
We generally don’t get smoke until August. I hope this is not going to be a trend. The Northwest got a great snow pack and lots of rain last winter. I don’t get it.
Maybe if the dammed Canadians would stop putting gravy on their french-fry’s we could stop this madness.
There is very little coverage of these fires in the alphabet media. They must still be figuring out how to blame it on white-Christian-conservative males.
I know. The only reason it’s being talked about now is because the smoke is affecting states here.
Forest-fires trying to make them sound worst with their wildfire crap , will countries in the world step to take Canadians that get burned out ? Nope they can only send people to Canada ,LOL
We took the Lake McDonald boat tour at Glacier National Park last year on the last day of the season. The “Ridge Fire” devastated the area in the 2018 summer. The boat cruise had an excellent tour guide and he spend a lot of time discussing the ecology of the fire, its restorative aspects, succession forests, etc. It was an ugly denuded ridge, miles long with standing charred, dead trees. You see the ugliness in a new light after listening to that guide.
Haze and blood red sunsets in northern Illinois/upper midwest last week.
We went to eastern Arizona a few years ago on vacation. That exact thing happened. A native firefighter set off a fire to make some wampum and started the largest fire in the state’s history.
We’re getting their smoke here in Western Pa. Rainy day but weird sky.
The Yellowstone fires of ‘88 were collectively a watershed moment (ostensibly).
Yet ‘science’ hypocritically moves that and other demonstrable research aside as ‘outliers’...
“Heard this morning that Denver had the worst air quality (of big cities) in the world yesterday and 2nd worst today”
indeed ... it’s very bad here in the denver metro area ...
This is impacting travel between Alaska and the Lower 48. I just towed a trailer to Alaska last month and everything was still normal back then. Glad I didn’t wait until the middle of May like I did the last time.
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