Fester
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Baha ha ha ha ha the climate is getting warmer baha ha ha ha ha ha.Have any of you been in these areas of Canada? These forests are nasty and thick. They’ve been historically (at least in the time we’ve been alive) wet enough to not have much for fires until the last 10 years or so. There have certainly been big fires up there in the past but not of this frequency. The climate is getting warmer and drier and this is the effect. You can argue cause, but that’s the reality. Logging and forestry management is difficult if not impossible in these areas. The bogs and thickness make logging very difficult. And there are millions of acres. I don’t see this changing but only for the worse. There isn’t a solution, or at least a reasonable one.
The US isn’t any different. The fire that burned 100k acres on the east face of the WY Bighorns burned an area they’ve called the asbestos forest. It hadn’t had a significant fire in a very long time. The fuels just stayed wet enough that it never really burned. Things have changed. The smoke sucks but I think it’s here to stay.
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