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What caused Canada's wildfires? Huge blazes that engulfed the US East Coast in smoke were sparked by 'bad forest management' as woodlands are left to turn into tinderboxes... (and this is just the start!)
Daily Mail ^ | 6/07/23 | Harriet Alexander

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 ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Canada; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arson; arsonarsonist; arsonist; arsonists; canada; canadawildfires; climatechangefraud; forest; smoke; wildfires
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To: Libloather

Nah. Blame the Irish! ;)

Was going to post this separately, but will just add it here. Same story, different source.

Good Lord! These people who think Man controls anything are a blight upon us!

“Wildfires – and their toxic smoke – are affecting us more often. What can we do about it?”

https://www.channel3000.com/news/national-and-world-news/wildfires-and-their-toxic-smoke-are-affecting-us-more-often-what-can-we-do-about/article_11dac818-cb89-5fab-9969-f2efc03ce0ea.html

Here’s an idea! Maintain the forests in a better manner! Send all those lay-abouts on the dole out to the woods with a hatchet and a wheelbarrow! Use prisoners! Use soy-boys still living in Mom’s basement! Plenty of manpower for this operation. ;)


81 posted on 06/08/2023 9:52:22 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Apparatchik

“So Canada under Trudeau is now basically California under Newsom.”

^THIS!^ :)


82 posted on 06/08/2023 9:53:20 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Libloather

Taking lessons from liberal Californistan, about letting the forest be a forest. Serves them right. (Who SAID that???)

‘Face

;o]


83 posted on 06/08/2023 10:21:13 AM PDT by Monkey Face ( ~~ Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will. ~~ Suzy Kassem)
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To: Libloather

Well, they like to do as America does. Our west burned last couple of years, now they are doing it.


84 posted on 06/08/2023 10:46:34 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (The Bible speaks truth! Don't believe it, you do so at your own peril. You'd better be right!!)
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To: Libloather
"blazes that engulfed the US East Coast in smoke were sparked by 'bad forest management' as woodlands are left to turn into tinderboxes"

For reference see: California

Newsollini rakes in the big bucks whenever the state catches fire, (which happened quite frequently, over the past few years).

85 posted on 06/08/2023 11:09:49 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America)
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To: nutmeg

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86 posted on 06/08/2023 11:10:17 AM PDT by nutmeg (My 'pride flag' is the AMERICAN FLAG)
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To: Steven Tyler

Happens every year. From what I read about the start of the many that are ongoing was lightning strikes causing dry underbrush to start and then fires we so big they kept jumping from place to place.

Of course they tried to manage the fires, but were unsuccessful due to high heat and winds causing rapid spread.


87 posted on 06/08/2023 12:09:30 PM PDT by jurroppi1 (The Left doesn't have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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To: jurroppi1

It’s only ever a problem, when it affects the East Coast. Get with the program FRiend. ;)


88 posted on 06/08/2023 2:35:51 PM PDT by defconw
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To: Libloather

It is the maple syrup trees that sparked the fires.
Maple syrup is highly flammable and tasty....


89 posted on 06/08/2023 3:22:25 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: Libloather
Hoax denier Brandon thinks it's caused by global warming ...

... when in fact it's the other way around. Massive wildfires cause all kinds of "warming" ... especially if you're close by.

90 posted on 06/08/2023 3:24:56 PM PDT by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: bert

Most out of control forest fires are due to bad forest fire management. We used to let loggers do that for us, as they chopped down trees. They would also clear out the overgrowth at the same time.

However since we put the kibosh on logging, we didn’t take up the slack by maintaining the forests. This has resulted in a lot of over growth in the forest, which has made them susceptible to forest fires when the conditions start them.

We can’t stop forest fires, but we can have a lot of effect on how serious they get by proper forestry management.


91 posted on 06/08/2023 4:05:50 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: BitWielder1

Logging companies replant forests. Have you ever seen an environmentalist plant a tree?


92 posted on 06/08/2023 5:09:27 PM PDT by Segovia
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To: defconw

Or the left coast


93 posted on 06/08/2023 6:37:24 PM PDT by jurroppi1 (The Left doesn't have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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To: jurroppi1

True that!


94 posted on 06/08/2023 6:39:37 PM PDT by defconw
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To: jurroppi1

I was wrong.
You are correct!
They had Fires in prior years, I guess fake news did not report

https://www.cp24.com/news/number-of-forest-fires-in-ontario-up-compared-to-same-time-last-year-1.6432011

Published Wednesday, June 7, 2023 8:07PM EDT
Ontario has already experienced double the number of forest fires this year compared to the same six months in 2022.

According to provincial data, there have been 167 forest fires so far in 2023.

Between January 1 and June 7 of last year, there were 78

The data also reveals this is more than the 10-year average of 157 fires.


95 posted on 06/09/2023 3:30:21 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: Steven Tyler

I remember the “poor air quality” alerts, and haze from then the last several years in the summer like this. Being in MN, we often get affected by the fires there and have also seen impact from wildfires in western US states as well (jet stream and all that).


96 posted on 06/09/2023 11:13:12 AM PDT by jurroppi1 (The Left doesn't have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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To: Libloather

How about terrorist testing the plausibility of having smoke
Obscure our view and sliding in balloons with emps in the smoke?


97 posted on 06/09/2023 1:40:59 PM PDT by aces (and )
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To: Cobra64

Impressive..assessment..check..


98 posted on 06/09/2023 1:42:57 PM PDT by aces (and )
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To: Libloather

The Canadian wildfires are caused by the same thing as the US. As a matter of fact they started in Canada, before the US. ECo terrorism. They now have a recording of some of the fore’s being started and of people standing back watching. They claim that it was supposed to be a controlled fire, but you don’t do controlled burns in June in the Canadian forests.Fire preparedness is a winter activity that is done before fire season.


99 posted on 06/09/2023 5:30:17 PM PDT by Eva
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To: bert

Real / actual Foresters and Forest Managers do NOT have “90 day management expectations”. At least not 99% of the time, anyway.

(The other 1% is usually stuff like: “Clean out the worst of the dead branches and trees 1st, before some hiker [etc.] gets clonked by a big piece of deadwood coming down”.)

My Dad taught proper Forest Management for over 50 years. and proper Forest Management applied over a period of years most certainly can minimize and reduce fire risks and damages, even in droughts.


100 posted on 06/09/2023 11:30:12 PM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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