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Anyone who has ever been in a forest should know how difficult it is to do anything, let alone drive heavy machinery through a forest. Add smoke to reduce visibility and it's near impossible to get bodies on the ground there.
Could Canada spend more on water bombers, yes. Will it stop the fire issue, no. Until the world accepts and addresses our climate problems these fires will only continue to get a worse.
For a lot of these forests, especially in Northern Ontario, it's not just "next to impossible", it's actually impossible. There are no roads.
I don’t get the “especially in Northern Ontario bit.
At least N Ontario has lake systems and navigable waterways, as does N Manitoba. Go further west, and there’s absolutely nothing but forest for thousands of kilometres. You’re not going to be flying supplies and ground crew in, because the only vehicles big enough to get there are too big to land.
The other problem, of course, is that we’ve spent a century and a bit messing with the forests, which used to have regular burns that acted as fire breaks for the next year’s burns. Ground cover grew back thick and green in the ashes, and trees dispersed their seeds.
Now however, we’ve stopped that cycle, leading to overpopulation of insects, buildup of deadwood, and no natural fire breaks, meaning humans have to artificially do all the work that used to happen naturally… right when everything is heating up and weather systems are shifting.
Yeah. Unfortunately, one pretty much inescapable part of the solution to this wildfire problem is wildfires. They need to burn through the backlog.
The other problem, of course, is that we’ve spent a century and a bit messing with the forests, which used to have regular burns that acted as fire breaks for the next year’s burns. Ground cover grew back thick and green in the ashes, and trees dispersed their seeds.
Now however, we’ve stopped that cycle, leading to overpopulation of insects, buildup of deadwood, and no natural fire breaks, meaning humans have to artificially do all the work that used to happen naturally… right when everything is heating up and weather systems are shifting.
As I understand it, at least some of the fires that had been happening previously were controlled burns by ~~Native Americans~~ First Nations people (sorry, USian talking about Canada), not "naturally" occurring ones.
https://parks.canada.ca/nature/science/conservation/feu-fire/autochtones-indigenous
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/fire/indigenous-fire-practices-shape-our-land.htm
Maybe more people should take a look at this fire map from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre:
Putting boots on the ground to deal with just one or two of those would be a gigantic undertaking. I don't see how anyone would imagine that much of a dent in the overall problem could possibly be made that way.
That's... a lot. Here's the US as comparison, and most of these are under some level of control:
Thanks, looks like I removed the link when adding the thumbnail. Should be fixed now.
It looks like this is the introduction to this article in The Atlantic.
Thank you. Looks like I mistakenly removed the link while editing. Should be fixed now.
Ugh. Vestigial connectors, missing trailing delimiters; this thing was written by an American or someone who doesn't know the difference between their dialect and ours.
That's some highfalutin' verbiage just to complain about punctuation.