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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
If the greenies really wanted what they claim to want, they’d want the forests well managed because the crap on the forest could be burned and then the ash could be fed back to the forest.
I live in a timber producing state, Washington. We have wildfires every stinking year not because of global temperatures but because the state and federal lands are sorely mismanaged. Now, there’s a new combined threat, drug vagrant encampments and eco-terrorists.
Weyerhaeuser, Louisiana Pacific, Green Diamond, Port Blakely Timber Company and all the other PRIVATE, tree growers NEVER have wildfires until a state or federal mismanaged forest catches fire and spreads into their land. If anthropogenic temperature issues were the culprit then these properly managed forests would be burning too, they’re not!
You are absolutely correct, blame Canada!
I live in Pueblo, Colorado, east of the front range, and we have been getting skies filled with ash from Canadian forest fires so this is occurring out West as well.
"Others" always spew some sort of arrant nonsense ...
Anyone know why the sky turns yellow, as it did for several hours yesterday over NYC?
If you don’t clear out the underbrush, it doesn’t need a hot day to burn. It just needs a spark.
Terrorist arson.
Just a prelude; folks!
2 Peter 3:7 ESV
But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire,
being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
Same reason we have fires in California... Stupid white liberal ‘elites’...
...In June 2021, Canada experienced its hottest day ever when the town of Lytton, in British Columbia, hit 121 degrees Fahrenheit,...
The fires are in 2023.
We had no fires (???) in 2021
I love the “good stewards of the earth” who want to protect the planet, yet they allow nothing be done to protect the forests..... only Burn Baby, Burn!
Old and tired > Smokey da Bear
New and woke > Ember da Fox
https://globalnews.ca/news/9196915/firesmart-canada-new-mascot/
Yes we have, and they are Ray’s Sis
Some areas are so remote there is no way to bring in heavy equipment. The best they can do is bring the equipment via preexisting logging roads. If the fire is small enough they bring in jump crews and water tankers.
Must have adopted California Socialist Forestry Management processes!
Bullcrap. For the most part. It was women. Few are reporting this:
Controlled burns should be stepped up because of global warming, not an excuse not to do them.
A Century of Fire Suppression Is Why California Is in Flames
“The wake-up call has already happened.”
December 12, 2017
The acrid smell of charred wood still permeates the air as Sasha Berleman, a fire ecologist, and I walk along a dirt path up through the middle of a canyon in the Bouverie nature preserve in Sonoma Valley. On the left side, the earth is black as tar, and scorch marks as tall as a person scar the trunks of the mature oak trees scattered throughout the field. But on the right side, the ground is tan and brown, and you have to look hard at the still-green oaks to see any evidence of the fire that raged through here just a few weeks before. It’s no mystery to Berleman why the fire behaved so differently on the two sides of the trail at Audubon Canyon Ranch’s Bouverie Preserve. When flames hit the field on the left of the path, they met a dense wall of thigh-high grass that hadn’t been mowed, grazed or burned for 20 years. The flames must have been 5 or 6 feet tall. On the right side, however, Berleman had set a prescribed burn just this spring. So when the October wildfire hit, patches of fire blazed, but with so little fuel, the flames remained only inches high.
Told ya! Fidel Castro’s son can’t manage shiest. Nor can the fellow reds he hired to manage the emergencies that arise as a result of the commie policies they enact.
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