Re: The unspoken truth about wildfires

On 7/31/26 12:21 PM, Tara wrote:
> On Jul 31, 2026 at 3:13:55 PM EDT, "dart200"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 7/31/26 12:10 PM, Tara wrote:
>>> On Jul 31, 2026 at 2:25:03 PM EDT, "Julian" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 31/07/2026 19:06, Tara wrote:
>>>>> On Jul 31, 2026 at 12:40:32 PM EDT, "Wilson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 7/30/2026 3:50 PM, Tara wrote:
>>>>>>> Julian <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 30/07/2026 19:56, Tara wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Jul 30, 2026 at 2:53:09 PM EDT, "Julian" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 30/07/2026 19:29, Tara wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On Jul 30, 2026 at 2:04:17 PM EDT, "Julian" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Sadly he was proved right. So was I. After I warned in these very pages
>>>>>>>>>>>> last year that government policy was worsening the fire risk on
>>>>>>>>>>>> moorland, it gives me no pleasure to say: ‘I told you so.’
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Matt Ridley
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Indigenous peoples in North America have been conrolling the threat of wild
>>>>>>>>>>> fires with prescribed/controlled burns for centuries. Canada is looking to do
>>>>>>>>>>> the same in co-operation with our native people. We have a problem doing this
>>>>>>>>>>> however because of the acessibility and vastness of our forests. But in a
>>>>>>>>>>> country the size of Britain (and other European countries), it seems to me
>>>>>>>>>>> that controlled fires are a no brainer.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Are inaccessible fires in vast forests really a problem?
>>>>>>>>>> I think they're as likely good for the land's long term health.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> There is that, but an uncontrolled fire can massively grow and send a lot of
>>>>>>>>> smoke to people populated areas.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> A bit like a volcano.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yeah like that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The northeast US is hundreds of miles from the wildfires yet we've had
>>>>>> serious air quality warnings this year and last. A few weeks ago it
>>>>>> literally dimmed the sun for several days, making what was otherwise a
>>>>>> clear day look cloudy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wildfires-smoke-millions-exposed-midwest-northeast-us/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Those pictures are not an exaggeration. That's what it really looked like.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Meanwhile the idiot treehuggers think they know what's best.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am an admitted tree hugger but I am also a realist and think that one answer
>>>>> here is controlled burning. Another is education and strictly enforced laws
>>>>> against those who are careless and start fires through laziness and ignorance,
>>>>> clearing vegetation around and near dwellings and building fire resistent
>>>>> homes.
>>>>
>>>> That would probably be more effective than increasing the price
>>>> of petrol, gas and electricity for already stretched workers.
>>>
>>> yah. And somebody should point out to the 'tree huggers' that controlled
>>> burning actually saves more trees than not doing it because left to itself
>>> wildfires will continue to happen. And trees will burn even more so because of
>>> the weather changes and encroachment.
>>
>> given that u actually live in canada maybe u should spend half a second
>> researching what it takes to do effective fuel management for the
>> forests ur actually talking about
>>
>> god boomers are so stupid
> 
> https://treeplantation.com/controlled-burning

yes tara, controlled burns are an effective fuel management strategy, 
but not _all_ kinds of forest

i said research the techniques used in the forest you're actually 
concerned about: canadian boreal forests are not the same as for example 
californian sierra nevada forests

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