ARTESH
Chief Master Sergeant
Stay safe!
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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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If you had lumbered it out years ago, we wouldn't be having this problem, or a housing shortage. Such poor planning.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...
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.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 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.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.
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.
That's quite a growth in fires. It looks like there's more of BC on fire than not on fire!
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.
You can have some of our cold and wet. It's miserable here at the moment.If this Warm weather keeps up in Oz, we will be taking over this thread!
Soon.