Recent content by foresterab

Sounds like trying to work in many parts in Western Canada when oil patch booms were going on. High school students working part time making more than their teacher was not uncommon. And god forbid you try to staff a restaurant or coffee shop as you sometimes hired people for hours before...

The use of salt makes me also wonder if some of the subsurface formations...some of which are full of saltwater...could be used. There are also empty formations being used as disposal wells and some of the pipelines currently in the country are used for pumping this fluid to a selected...

The worst part is that mine has been proposed for 25? plus years....its underground so doesn't have the same selinium leaching issues the open pit mines have and doesn't visually change the landscape the the same degree. Oh and the town is screaming for any work as the mines have been...

I love the CL-215's. Have only had the CL-415's overhead a few times but also have nothing but good things to say. But it's been primarily in those portions of the country where waterbodies all support efficient cycle drop times for each machine. Instead of going all in on one...

Thanks again for making this distinction. I do not support a castle type defense for a guy cutting a corner of my property to reach crown land (US has had some interesting case law for hunting tresspasses in this type of access). A home is a pretty clear bar to measure against. Where I...

The part that comes to mind is also the fear of what's going to happen from the intruder. While I've had s@$!rats try to break into my vehicles I've been lucky on the home front....other folks locally not so much. Following one elderly resident turning his lights on and calling out to ask...

Gang colors are one way to think of it. Or think of it as studying European history from overseas...and learning all about England's history and Germany. Then going to France and wondering why you don't understand the other half of the conflict over the War XXXX and War YYYY. For those...

Different backgrounds and places we've lived in Canada...both myself and the better half have lived in multiple provinces and a range of community sizes. Neither is FN or Metis background but both of us end up taking a ton of training on these subjects...your milage and value per session varies...

While CIFFC sometimes has to do this triage...more importantly they also have the specifics of each provinces agreements. Not all provinces pull on the same state and international agreements so it's why Maine for example might be supporting NB, Wisconsin is supporting MB, and out west we'll...

It's an often discussed topic in our household over what you can wear or not. Unfortunately it's a very complex subject to understand and a symbol that is valid to wear in one community...is an insult in the next. Cree/Blackfoot, Ojibiway/Cree, Cree/Dene, Dene/Slavey, Metis...the nuances...

They also do that too through outfits like CAN TASK Force 2 (only one I've worked with twice now). Not sure if Team Rubicon (in Manitoba right now) gets support. If I wanted to expand the CIFFC role I'd be focused on a few things: 1) Investment into training materials instead of every province...

So one big part...also common with the CAF reserves...is the job protection aspects at least in Australia. A person who deploys to a bushfire in Australia still must have employer consent to leave...but the employer is also compensated for the absence of the employee which allows them to cover...

Algonquin Provincial Park is 770,000 ha The largest single tenure I can find in Ontario is the Abitibi Forest near Cochrane at 3,285,435 ha in size. Assuming harvesting cuts around 0.5% per year of each land base that works out to 15% of the area cleaned up via logging/reforestation each 30...

It's already happening...at least in Alberta and BC. The issue is three fold though: 1) you need a clearing to move the wood to and small stems are much more expensive to handle than large logs 2) then you need to pay trucking to move the raw wood to the mill for conversion to wood pellets...

Fast response to catch him that quick. Kuddo's to the Newfoundland Constables involved. Would be worth a beer to hear the inside story if opportunity allows especially regarding how he was identified so fast/arrested. Arson is no laughing matter and while it's a high bar to determine that...