This is hilarious!
The news is acting like this is the end of the earth for the Northeast USA....
Welcome to what those of us on the West Coast deal with anywhere from 6 to 8 weeks, almost every summer...for the last 27 years I lived here....All BECAUSE the FOREST CIRCUS has this policy to "let it burn". We have places out here all over the place, where your can have 50 square miles being totally void of any standing timber, you can see from a mountain top, in all directions on other mountain tops up to 50 plus miles away... with no green standing timber.
back in 2004 we had the "Biscuit Fire" ( these dopey names come from the Forest Service), burn for 8 to 10 weeks. It burned out an area bigger than the size of the state of Connecticut.
Maybe you can get the Federal Government, making some demands of the Canadian Forest Service. Before 1980, the Western States didn't have massive fires like now.. because they made the Forest Service to get off their butts and put them out instead of this " let'em burn" to " renew " the forest.
Isn't all this smoke wonderful. Out here if you are out in it constantly, for every man, woman and child, they say it does enough damage to your lungs, as if you are smoking 7 cartons of cigarettes a day....and our Federal Government doesn't give a damn.. they want to renew the forest they say.. no, instead you ought to see the money they waste annually, just to keep it going...
Get on the phone to your senators, the White House Switch board ( 1.202.456.1414 and/or 1411. ), the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and the Canadian Embassy.
Love it when people make wild ass guesses and thump their chest thinking they are genius.
Putting out every fire they could immediately created artificial fuel loading that wouldn't have naturally occurred. Up until around the 80s that was mitigated for the most part with widespread logging throughout the West. So they took away the logging and then put out every fire they could causing a huge growth of fuels since then. End result is more fires and increased intensity. The reason they HAVE to just "let it burn" now is to reduce those fuel loads as much as possible. Catastrophic fires aren't a new thing. Historically they would happen every 500 years or so, and over time the forests recover. Frequent low intensity fires used to occur naturally every 3-7 years that would kill undergrowth and small trees this keeping the vegetative species in check. So now yes the answer is more fire and logging. One is being stopped, the other can't be. If you have a way to just make trees and brush stop growing or reproducing you could be a millionaire. But then some leftist group would protest that.
