Wildfires again!

[Trip McNeely]

I think they would serve us the USA best if they just lit the entirety of their forests on fire, then within a week there would be nothing left to burn and ruin our summers.

Why would this not work, burn it all right now, and be done with it.

Those are my thoughts…. Burn the whole son of bitch at once and be done with it…..

 

[Allen]

https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/

A map of the fire locations and smoke transport models. Yuck!

 

[Obi-Wan]

https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/

A map of the fire locations and smoke transport models. Yuck!

Are you saying there are currently 18 active fires in ND ?

 

[camper]

Those are my thoughts…. Burn the whole son of bitch at once and be done with it…..

That seems to be your solution to everything. Grumpy old fart.

 

[double account removed]

hey now there aint nothin he dont know

 

[Trip McNeely]

Are there any agencies or otherwise testing what’s actually in the air thats with all this smoke? If one were to say “spray some shit in the air and let it drift to a destination for a desired outcome…. Wouldnt using smoke screens of this magnitude help mask or throw off the trail….. we see “forest fires and smoke” and think nothing more….. what if there’s more to it….. if I were an evil billionaire thats how I’d go about poisoning a population… I feel like shit today. Eyes burn and Almost nauseous. I hardly ever get sick, not even with covid and I just straight feel like ass today…. Spent more time outdoors than I wanted to this Weeknd….

 

[Allen]

Are you saying there are currently 18 active fires in ND ?

I don't know the required size, or time scale, for placing an icon on the map for a fire. I do know that up until the big rains of a couple weeks ago there were about 10 fires per day reported to the State. Even during the heavy rains out west, the eastern part of the state was still having fires with 3-5 reported a day. Many are/were quite small, ranging from a couple of acres up to a couple hundred. Since it's a map produced by Canada, it wouldn't surprise me if there's something of a lag in their inclusion of fires in the United States.

Some of the bigger fires I know of in ND this spring were up in the Belcourt area, but I thought they were in the Turtle Mountain area, not SE of Belcourt.

There are also several relatively large fires in western ND from earlier this spring that aren't on the map, in particular I know of a large one north of Watford that basically burned its way north to the shore of Sak that isn't on the map. I'm pretty sure that one was several thousand acres. My friend's son has been up there replacing fences for a while now.

Probably the worst thing about these damn Canadian fires is that even large rains don't put them out. They will get tamped down, but then just flare up again sometime after the rains are over.

 

[Allen]

Are there any agencies or otherwise testing what’s actually in the air thats with all this smoke? If one were to say “spray some shit in the air and let it drift to a destination for a desired outcome…. Wouldnt using smoke screens of this magnitude help mask or throw off the trail….. we see “forest fires and smoke” and think nothing more….. what if there’s more to it….. if I were an evil billionaire thats how I’d go about poisoning a population… I feel like shit today. Eyes burn and Almost nauseous. I hardly ever get sick, not even with covid and I just straight feel like ass today…. Spent more time outdoors than I wanted to this Weeknd….

I don't think there's anyone testing the air for some nefarious billionaire's intentional poisoning of the world, but here's an air quality link: https://fire.airnow.gov/#6/47.361/-98.354

 

[double account removed]

well u just proved his point nobody is testing fer billionaire poison how else do u explain feeling sick save us trump

 

[Allen]

well u just proved his point nobody is testing fer billionaire poison how else do u explain feeling sick save us trump

I think it's possible some of us have mistaken the James Bond and Austin Powers series of movies as documentaries.

 

[snow2]

I believe pine beetles eat only the cambium layer and the tree dies because it can no longer transport water. Much the same affect as Dutch elm diseas. Processing these logs for whatever they use spruce for removes the soft cambium along with bark. If left standing of course other wood boring species will destroy its value, so don't leave it standing.
My neighbor run a hose into my yard and was pumping his septic system. The nitrogen killed four Colorado Blue Spruce about 22 inches in diameter. So I ordered an Alaskan saw mill. Didn't turn out bad even though they were standing dead four years.

Beautiful,nicely done congrats

 

[Rowdie]

 

[Trip McNeely]

I don't think there's anyone testing the air for some nefarious billionaire's intentional poisoning of the world, but here's an air quality link: https://fire.airnow.gov/#6/47.361/-98.354

If some of said nefarious billionaires weren’t openly saying we need to reduce our population….. or if a few said billionaires didnt spend multiple years pushing a narrative and vaccine that is proving to kill people, I suppose one wouldnt need to think this direction…. But here we are

 

[Kurtr]

Never thought the days of smoking ditch weed would come in handy but this smoke doesn’t even affect me. Puff puff give Craig

 

[lunkerslayer]

This is a off tangent response but it has to do with mother nature bringing low air quality issues to the states.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/weather/saharan-dust-florida-gulf-coast.html
Also we could be looking at a supervolcano off the coast of Oregon predicting to go off this year.
https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/a-new-supervolcano-is-brewing-beneath-the-pacific-1-321388/
This one could be a very serious event

 

[guywhofishes]

I dont think dead trees killed by these beetles would make very good lumber since the larvae consumes the wood. The government needs to find away to either use pesticides or remove healthy trees that have not been effected by this evasive species brought here from east asia.The beetle will consume just about every type of tree in north America especially maple.

It’s often the case that the beetles destroy the tissues just under the bark that transport water/nutrients (cambium?). It effectively girdles the trees - suffocating them, without actually destroying the heartwood or whatever it’s called. It’s why ash trees stand a loooong time after ash borers have done their work.

 

[risingsun]

It’s often the case that the beetles destroy the tissues just under the bark that transport water/nutrients (cambium?). It effectively girdles the trees - suffocating them, without actually destroying the heartwood or whatever it’s called. It’s why ash trees stand a loooong time after ash borers have done their work.

Sounds like your ash knows what you talking about.

 

[lunkerslayer]

https://natural-resources.canada.ca...s-disturbances/mountain-pine-beetle-factsheet
There are some many different types of these beetles which of course are not native to this continent.
According to this article you guys are correct just like the emerald ash beetle it kills the bark which is the softest part of the tree. It takes years for the tree to eventually die. I stand corrected thanks for making me inform myself

 

[tikkalover]

 

[Kurtr]

Fucking Chinese ruin everything steal our technology and kill our trees