cm0002@mander.xyz to Canada@lemmy.ca · 4 days agoOur smoke-filled future: How Canada must prepare for bigger wildfires, every summer — foreverwww.thestar.comexternal-linkmessage-square27linkfedilinkarrow-up1111arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1111arrow-down1external-linkOur smoke-filled future: How Canada must prepare for bigger wildfires, every summer — foreverwww.thestar.comcm0002@mander.xyz to Canada@lemmy.ca · 4 days agomessage-square27linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareCeeBee_Ehlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·4 days agoIt won’t be “forever”. Once the piled up fuel (that’s been accumulating for the past hundred years or so since we’ve taken the stance that all forest fires are bad) are burnt through, we’ll stop seeing these big fires over and over.
minus-squarehealthetank@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 days agoFrom what I’ve seen, that doesn’t apply to Canada’s boreal forests
minus-squareJohnnyCanuck@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 days agoWell, that and when the forests don’t grow back fast enough to provide new fuel. I.e. when what was forest becomes desert. Past mistakes with forest management are only part of the problem.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoGrassland comes before desert. There are bits that are coming back as grassland in northern Alberta already.
It won’t be “forever”. Once the piled up fuel (that’s been accumulating for the past hundred years or so since we’ve taken the stance that all forest fires are bad) are burnt through, we’ll stop seeing these big fires over and over.
From what I’ve seen, that doesn’t apply to Canada’s boreal forests
Well, that and when the forests don’t grow back fast enough to provide new fuel. I.e. when what was forest becomes desert.
Past mistakes with forest management are only part of the problem.
Grassland comes before desert. There are bits that are coming back as grassland in northern Alberta already.
There have been other fires in other years.
I’m not sure what your point is.