Re: The unspoken truth about wildfires

On 7/31/2026 8:03 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:54:09 -0700, Dude <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On 7/31/2026 2:29 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>>> On Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:28:14 -0000 (UTC), Tara <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> On Jul 31, 2026 at 5:23:29?PM EDT, "Noah Sombrero" <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>>> On 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> Asl if tree huggers had the power to allow or not allow anything.
>>>>
>>>> They vote.
>>>
>>> Same as the tree choppers.
>>>
>> Just for the record you live in a house made out of lumber, right?
> 
> Brick mostly.
 >
It's very difficult for one individual to prevent forest fires when they 
do nothing and deny they have a problem with fire prevention in Canada.