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.
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.
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
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.
Really smoky and smelly in Calgary today. I’m sitting in the airport waiting for a flight to Ottawa and both the smoke and the stink of burning permeates everything in here. It’s gross.
Looks like at least some arson is involved. It’s eerily reminiscent of the Muslim arson campaign against Greece a few years back.
“Wildfires spread in eastern Canada, forcing evacuations in coastal Quebec”
By Allison Lampert and Ismail Shakil
June 2, 20234:21 PM PDT
“On Friday, Blair said there were 214 fires burning across Canada, 93 out of control.”