Posted on 07/18/2026 8:08:50 AM PDT by Decombobulator
Most wildfires in Canada are impossible to fight.
As smoke from forest fires in Canada have darkened skies south of the border, lawmakers in Michigan, Ohio and other U.S. states have accused the Canadian authorities of inaction and poor forest management. But most wildfires in Canada spread in such remote, vast areas that they cannot be fought effectively — and are often left to burn.
Half of Canada’s wildfires, like the ones now burning in northern Ontario, burn in such areas — either unpopulated or dotted with small Indigenous communities, said Michael Flannigan, an expert on fire management at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia. They are most often accessible only by plane, with no roads for firefighters.
Water bombers can help from the air, Mr. Flannigan said. “They buy you time for the ground crews to put the fire out,” he said. “The boots on the ground put the fires out.”
But not only is it impossible to get firefighters on the ground in such remote areas, there is also insufficient time to react to the fires. Started mostly by lightning, they spread in the highly combustible boreal forest before firefighters can respond within the first critical 30 minutes.
Most fires are put out when they are small, Mr. Flannigan said. “But in those areas, the half-hour window passes, and the fire is up and running.”
“To be blunt, even if we spend a lot more money, I don’t think we could stop these fires,” he added.
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Because it’s Cannot-ada.
There are forest fires all over North America
They have to be allowed to burn out, once started. However, Canada used to have a good forestry management system by clear-cutting, clearing out the underbrush and logging.
Drones?
Fire breaks?
And the Canucks were idjiotheads for ditching said program.
Unfortunately.
Agreed. In 2020, we had weeks of thick smoke in the Pacific NW. It was horrible. Bad forest management yes, but fires happen and you can’t control the smoke. I hear people in NY complaining, it’s crazy.
Did colonial America suffer such events?
You mean to tell me, that there was nothing Canada could have done beforehand to mitigate the fires?
Once they start, there isn’t much you can do.
The trick is good management before they start. Policies could be in place that would help diminish the severity of future fires. But that would upset the enviro-nuts.
No because the Native Americans were proactive when it came to forest management unlike Gavin Newsom, Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney.
They did just fine until (pick one or several)
- They let (or encouraged) ecofreaks set fires
- PRC set fires in accord with the WEF-installed Canadian government
- The WEF-installed government set its own fires
- Net Zero idiot thinking stopped doing forest management resulting in loss of deciduous trees, growth of tinder underbrush, and routing of firefighting resources to go fight russiarussiarussia in Ukraine. (that’s the ‘nice’ statement)
It’s definitely not because the USA continues to have air conditioning, but the fact that Carney blames the USA and NYT follows suit makes me think much more of the first three reasons than the fourth.
Canada = competence like CNN = journalism.
As to ground cover burning, yeah, that is MomNature. That is the only way nutrients embedded in twigs and leaves are returned to the soil. It would take centuries for buggies to do that job, and few trees have that kind of time. Either let it happen or kiss your forests goodbye.
Once fire is started, it is hard to put off.
The best way to stop fires is prevention.
Sound forest management!
But the greenees do not want that!
The forest needs cleaning.
Either people do that or forest cleans itself naturally by fire!
More sensible gun laws? /s
“You can pay me now, or you can pay me later.”
Hard to build a fire break in land that is full of lakes, bogs, and swamps.
Not to mention there’s very few (if any) roads in a lot of the region ... how do you even get in there?
Efforts to put roads into those areas was quashed years ago in the name of all thing green.
The Crazy Greens would rather forests burn up than cut or maybe they have no clue forests burn ,LOL
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