Re: The unspoken truth about wildfires

On Sat, 1 Aug 2026 12:52:40 -0400, Wilson <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On 7/31/2026 6:44 PM, Creon wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Because you say so?
>
>Who's stopping the controlled burns and brush clearing in California? 
>It's not the foresters.

Nobody, I suspect.  But as always, store clerks and truck drivers
think they need to tell professionals how to do their job.  How to
manage (where and when) controlled burning for instance.
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