Posted on 06/08/2023 1:59:03 AM PDT by Libloather
Wildfires raging across six of Canada's 13 provinces and territories have caused havoc nationwide for the last six weeks - forcing mass evacuations and burning through more than 3.3 million hectares of land, larger than the state of Maryland.
With the smoke now billowing down to the East Coast of the United States, affecting 75 million Americans, the dire threat to Canada's forests has come into sharp focus.
Some blame lax forest management, arguing that not enough controlled burns are being carried out thanks to campaigns by environmentalists.
In 2020, four scientists wrote a paper published in Progress in Disaster Science in which they said not enough money was being spent by Canada on managing forests.
'Wildfire management agencies in Canada are at a tipping point,' they wrote. 'Presuppression and suppression costs are increasing but program budgets are not.'
In July 2021, the editorial board of Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper warned that more needed to be done to hold controlled burns, and reduce the problem of out-of-control wildfires.
But others say that climate change is directly responsible, due to the warming planet.
Canada had an extremely dry and snow-free winter, which has left all 10 provinces currently facing conditions termed abnormal dryness, moderate or severe drought, according to the Canadian government's drought tracker.
In June 2021, Canada experienced its hottest day ever when the town of Lytton, in British Columbia, hit 121 degrees Fahrenheit, smashing the previous record of 113 degrees.
It tied California's Death Valley as the hottest place in North America that day. And this year, the wildfire season has begun incredibly early.
More than 1,400 percent of the normal amount of acres has burned for this time of the year - 8.7 million acres so far in 2023, an area the size of Vermont.
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Not forest managers....... the press
I don’t know that they confessed, but I know that some of the fires in CA and Oregon were started by Antifa members. They know who they are, they have identified them. Before that, the year that CA legalized marijuana, the cartel started some massive fires on the new marijuana farms whose insurance only covered the grapes. We had some of it in WA, too. Governor Inslee put a stop to it when he took back the forestry land from the federal government, saying that state was better equipped to take care of forest conservation.
This all started in the Northwest following Obama’s roadless policy.
“wildfires”
But, you said "To assume forest management can control the current fire problem is folly."
and that's where I disagree with what you said. Forest Management properly applied would reduce these fire problems a lot.
Now, a point is made above that most of these fire areas in Canada are too remote for such management to be applied. Which is a very curious thing. Here we have a resource (forests) in enormous demand, and most of it doesn't even have any access.
Canada is forest.
To assume such vast areas can be managed is folly
I understand that management can affect fires but if the areas are vast, the cost is beyond the benefit.
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