Re: The unspoken truth about wildfires

At Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:20:28 -0400, Wilson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 7/31/2026 2:06 PM, 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.
>
> Yes I agree. The funny thing is, the idiot treehuggers I'm talking
> about are killing more trees by not allowing beneficial things like
> controlled burns.

Not true.

You seem to be living about four decades behind, Sir.

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