FOREST FIRES

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Yeah the smoke here in Calgary yesterday was the worst I've ever seen. And we're 500 kms south of the fires. (Yeah I know, taking pictures whie driving - but I set it up at a stop light and just had to hit the button)

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That little campfire symbol between 2 red dots in the lower right corner of the province is our local fire -- discussed a bit in the weather thread. 4100 hectares (11000 acres), 7 houses gone, 250 persons working the lines. It's been going for a week and a half, but seems to be settling some -- the fire service says the containment lines on the north and west sides are holding so far. It's burning away from the towns, but they are afraid of it jumping the Kootenay River and getting into the ranch and resort country north and east. There has already been one blaze on the east bank and there are crews and helicopters all over the place up there. Right now everything depends on the wind, which is picking up as I type this.

Uneasy times...
 
That little campfire symbol between 2 red dots in the lower right corner of the province is our local fire -- discussed a bit in the weather thread. 4100 hectares (11000 acres), 7 houses gone, 250 persons working the lines. It's been going for a week and a half, but seems to be settling some -- the fire service says the containment lines on the north and west sides are holding so far. It's burning away from the towns, but they are afraid of it jumping the Kootenay River and getting into the ranch and resort country north and east. There has already been one blaze on the east bank and there are crews and helicopters all over the place up there. Right now everything depends on the wind, which is picking up as I type this.

Uneasy times...
If you had lumbered it out years ago, we wouldn't be having this problem, or a housing shortage. Such poor planning.
But, seriously, stay safe.
 
If you had lumbered it out years ago, we wouldn't be having this problem, or a housing shortage. Such poor planning.
But, seriously, stay safe.
The environmentalists wreaked havoc with California's forests in the late 70's, early 80's winning injunctions against the USFS, CDF and private landowners, forbidding any form of logging, deadfall removal and maintaining existing logging roads.
Fast forward ten years and California started to experience escalating wildfires.
Within a generation, the forests were so choked with ladder fuels, catastrophic fires were inevitable.

So we're literally reaping the whirlwind of a poorly informed, passionate but misguided crusade.
 
The environmentalists wreaked havoc with California's forests in the late 70's, early 80's winning injunctions against the USFS, CDF and private landowners, forbidding any form of logging, deadfall removal and maintaining existing logging roads.
Fast forward ten years and California started to experience escalating wildfires.
Within a generation, the forests were so choked with ladder fuels, catastrophic fires were inevitable.

So we're literally reaping the whirlwind of a poorly informed, passionate but misguided crusade.
The north-central US suffered some catastrophic fires during the height of the logging boom, late 1800s to early 1900s. I read that the Hinckley fire, 1894 burned over 200,000 acres and killed over 400 people. In places the fire burned so hot, it consumed all organic matter up to 18 inches below the ground surface.
 
If you had lumbered it out years ago, we wouldn't be having this problem, or a housing shortage. Such poor planning.
But, seriously, stay safe.

Yeah but at that stage the ecoterrorists were saying do not produce/use paper bags - produce/use plastic bags. Now they do not know what to say because half want trees and the other half want paper products
 
The environmentalists wreaked havoc with California's forests in the late 70's, early 80's winning injunctions against the USFS, CDF and private landowners, forbidding any form of logging, deadfall removal and maintaining existing logging roads.
Fast forward ten years and California started to experience escalating wildfires.
Within a generation, the forests were so choked with ladder fuels, catastrophic fires were inevitable.

So we're literally reaping the whirlwind of a poorly informed, passionate but misguided crusade.

Fires are nature's form of forest management. Humans need to understand that.
 
From https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/31/weather/bc-wildfires-canada-washington-climate/index.html

An out-of-control blaze burning in northern Washington state exploded in size, crossed the Canadian border and set off a cascade of evacuations over the weekend.

The so-called Eagle Bluff Fire has burned thousands of acres on both sides of the border and forced hundreds to evacuate their homes since it ignited Saturday in Washington's Okanogan County.

As Okanogan county an extension of the Canadian Okanagan area this suggests the fires in that area are now spreading in a new direction which is very concerning. I spent many happy days at Lake Okanagan in the late 60s, an area that is second only to Lake Louise for beauty and relaxation.

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