If you’ve read today that the premier of Nova Scotia has banned people from using the forest, for hiking, walking, fishing, and camping because of a fear of wildfires, I’d like to reassure you that not all of the people who live in Canada are bat shit crazy. There a few of us left.
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hopefully there still like folks in bay area the 1% who still mask up in cars.
Yeah it's always bad press and bad policy that make everyone else look like idiots
Most fires are started by lightning and fires are integral parts of all forest and savanna ecosystems.
Yep
There is not much lightning in coastal areas. This will probably work to reduce the amount of wildfires, which will create more fuel for the next fire and give the politicians justification for future crazy restrictions.
Alaska is headed that way. Burn permits didn't exist here 10 years ago. Now you need one for anything other than a 3' campfire in the summer months and they cancel them on a whim.
Yeah coastal regions are also much wetter and have the corresponding ecosystems that result in substantially lower natural burn frequencies. But they do burn naturally every 50 to 100 years and the burns are more intense as a result. So yes human caused forest fires at greater intervals would reduce severity of the big burns.
I’m just pointing out how delusion it is to attempt to “avoid” forest fires in general. I think you get that.
I remember visiting canada as a kid and one thing that stuck was how your forestry and logging practices were different than Americas and that is why forest fires were less of an issue.
Did those practices change or were they fucking up the whole time?
It seems to be a real issue the last few years and I'm not sure if the rate of fires changed or just the coverage and alarmism.
No, it’s changed quite a bit. Lack of funding, rules against controlled fires, lots of beetle kill that’s left and not cleared because of funding. It’s a shitshow.
Now we spray our forests with desiccant to allow for crown fires in the deciduous and Nano aluminum to oxidize the flames so that way we get super heated fire storms and then blame climate change all the while sending out fire fighters that don't fight fire and actually promote fire. We are at war and we don't even know who the enemy is.
Have you met Mike from Canmore and his dog Norm? Big fire bugs
No.
Big flames fan
😂 there’s a joke in here I’m just not getting
Hes an air farce character one of the best interpretations of a Canuck in my mind
Last Year our CAO got 60,000 dollars from the province of British Columbia to adopt the Emergency Services bylaws brought from Sendai Japan. every municipality in all of Canada has adopted these. NS the most libtarded of all Canada gets the first dose!