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Dear 416/905, at least you seem to be getting some breaks from the smoke here and there ...
2026 Wildfire Season
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One of the CNN commentators mentioned that since most of Canada's Boreal Forest is Government (re: Crown) owned and that most of the forests in the lower 48 are privately owned, that the US does a much better job at forest management. What the CNN crew failed to mention:
The Canadian Boreal forest is 7 times the size of all US forests put together;
99% of the Canadian forest is wilderness and has no road or rail access;
US led Softwood Lumber war has severely damaged Canada's forestry industry and there fore less wood is being harvested; and
Forest Fire Smoke is the Honey Badger of the Atmosphere, it don't give a shit where it goes or who it annoys.
The Canadian Boreal forest is 7 times the size of all US forests put together;
99% of the Canadian forest is wilderness and has no road or rail access;
US led Softwood Lumber war has severely damaged Canada's forestry industry and there fore less wood is being harvested; and
Forest Fire Smoke is the Honey Badger of the Atmosphere, it don't give a shit where it goes or who it annoys.
It would be interesting to do a comparetive GIS overlay and show how much of their forest is within, say, five miles of any sort of road, compared to ours.
Privately owned largely = logging = accessible and actively managed. Ours is just woods that for much of it no human has ever touched.
I remember driving from Vancouver to the Yukon many years back. At one point we were stopped at some outlook, I feel like it was up past Fort Nelson, and I was looking out northeast and just marvelling at how much utterly untouched wilderness there was out there. Same feeling driving up across the top of Lake Superior a couple years ago. Canada’s really big.
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Bigger than India and, unlike India, largely untouched...
How much forest does Canada have?
Canada is home to 369 million hectares (ha) of forest, or 3.69 million km2, which is close to 9% of the world’s total forest. To get a sense of the area of Canada’s forests, the land area of India is about 297 million ha. Canadians depend on and value these forests for many different uses including recreation, conservation, traditional Indigenous practices and sustainable timber harvest. Strict rules require harvest areas to be regenerated either through planting or natural regrowth. Canada’s National Deforestation Monitoring System reports that over the last 34 years, less than half of 1% of Canada’s forest has been deforested.
How much forest does Canada have? - Natural Resources Canada
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Transport Canada, Transportation Safety Board - UP!
globalnews.ca
Government investigating CN’s actions after rail crew caught in wildfire | Globalnews.ca
Transport Canada spokesperson Hicham Ayoun says the government is "conducting followup oversight" to determine if CN failed to comply with rules under the Railway Safety Act.
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Oldgateboatdriver
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I think that fair is fair:
We get tariffed for our more frequent wild fires sending smoke their way, then they get tarriffed for all the damages caused by wind, flooding, hail and other consequences from the more and more frequent hurricanes they are doing nothing to stop from coming North at us.
We get tariffed for our more frequent wild fires sending smoke their way, then they get tarriffed for all the damages caused by wind, flooding, hail and other consequences from the more and more frequent hurricanes they are doing nothing to stop from coming North at us.
which taken together makes Canada one giant carbon sink sequestering far more CO2 than we could possibly produce. The figures floored me.Bigger than India and, unlike India, largely untouched...
How much forest does Canada have?
Canada is home to 369 million hectares (ha) of forest, or 3.69 million km2, which is close to 9% of the world’s total forest. To get a sense of the area of Canada’s forests, the land area of India is about 297 million ha. Canadians depend on and value these forests for many different uses including recreation, conservation, traditional Indigenous practices and sustainable timber harvest. Strict rules require harvest areas to be regenerated either through planting or natural regrowth. Canada’s National Deforestation Monitoring System reports that over the last 34 years, less than half of 1% of Canada’s forest has been deforested.
How much forest does Canada have? - Natural Resources Canada
natural-resources.canada.ca
- CO2 Absorption: With 594.7 billion trees absorbing approximately 14.87 gigatonnes of CO2 annually, Canada’s forests are a formidable carbon sink.
- National Emissions: Canada emits roughly 559 megatonnes (0.559 gigatonnes) of CO2 equivalent each year.
- The Net Effect: When comparing these figures, Canada’s trees are absorbing carbon dioxide at a rate 26.6 times higher than the country’s total greenhouse gas emissions.
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And then there's the ocean...
The climate crazies continue to convince everyone we're running out of trees and lashing out the carbon though ...
I did some work with a scientist studying the Alberta 'tar sands' awhile ago, it contains enough oil to run the world for a hundred years, and asked him how much of it had been developed so far.
He took a quarter out of his pocket and put it on a huge boardroom table and said 'about that much, since the 1940s'.
North American boreal forest holds 31 per cent more trees than thought
New AI-enhanced estimate suggests the vast forests may have more potential to mitigate climate change.
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Wait until we start sending bills - with interest - for acid rain.
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Currently 585 active wildfires burning in the US, and those are totally not producing any smoke. 
www.americanforests.org
Active Wildfire Map - American Forests
Hotter, drier and more variable conditions have caused an increase in destructive and high severity wildfires. Check your area for active wildfires today.
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That there is Freedom smoke.Currently 585 active wildfires burning in the US, and those are totally not producing any smoke.
Active Wildfire Map - American Forests
Hotter, drier and more variable conditions have caused an increase in destructive and high severity wildfires. Check your area for active wildfires today.
It is good for you.
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Tell him it only effects Democrat's,......"its great smoke,....in fact I've been told it's the greatest smoke in the history of smoke".
Not sure why Canada has not started to charge the US for all the pollution coming from them into the north.
But this it starting to feel like a pre text to a hostile take over. He is still pushing to annex Greenland and Canada.
I am all for Canada working on building a Nuclear, biological and chemical deterrent against any and all hostile adversaries. We might have to partner up with a more friendlier country such as France who runs their own program separate from the US.
Maybe Red Dawn wasn't about Russia invading the United States, but it was about the US invading Canada. Same result we will push the infiltrators out.
But this it starting to feel like a pre text to a hostile take over. He is still pushing to annex Greenland and Canada.
I am all for Canada working on building a Nuclear, biological and chemical deterrent against any and all hostile adversaries. We might have to partner up with a more friendlier country such as France who runs their own program separate from the US.
Maybe Red Dawn wasn't about Russia invading the United States, but it was about the US invading Canada. Same result we will push the infiltrators out.
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We as in combat vets dragging around CPAP machines or we as in everyone with their trauma and mental health tags in their instagram profile?
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... and no guns.
I don't have no cpap machine, nor do my friends have them or mental health tags.
The majority if not all of my military friends would look forward to defending our Country on our ground for once. They would not want to fight our neighbors and good friends to the south. That only hinges on if they would attack us or not. I do not think the average US service member would follow that order, nor do I think their Generals would either.
My non Military friends are the ones I would be more concerned about. They are generally the ones with lots of money and buy lots of fancy toys for surviving and know how to use all their gear. They don't understand much about rules and such, a fee of them understand laws of physics and how things are made and how things work much better then most. They also know how to break things so they no longer work well or properly.
I would not mess with beer time for some of them.
As one Buddy said, where's the gas and matches for take two of burning down the house. This time we can video it for all to see.
Of course this is all discussion based on current chatter of the day, no one actually wants to fight each other, most if not all of my friends have significant amounts of family on either side the border.
i hope for everyone's sake DT and his merry war machine doesn't push people to the brink.
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I'm no general but this seems like a terrible thing to look forward to for a number of reasons.
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