2025 Wildfire Season

[Quirky]

Now is not the time to have a campfire in the bush or at an RV site and I don’t understand why we do not have a province wide ban on them right now.

That's called being proactive.

|tinfoil hat|
BC NDP government wants forest fires, evacuations and towns burned. That way they can push their environmental human-caused climate change hysteria and offer taxes as a solution.

 

[Cloud Cover]

That's called being proactive.

|tinfoil hat|
BC NDP government wants forest fires, evacuations and towns burned. That way they can push their environmental human-caused climate change hysteria and offer taxes as a solution.

You’re damned right they do. Government arson is not a conspiracy, even if they didn’t light the match.

 

[Brad Sallows]

You’re damned right they do. Government arson is not a conspiracy, even if they didn’t light the match.

Incompetence and cowardice, not malice. Governments in Canada are (fortunately) reluctant to curtail freedoms, and more reluctant since COVID. (I suppose if they'd thought their muscle-flexing had been well-received, they'd be more prone to illiberal responses.) Reconstruction costs money, and they don't like unnecessary spending. (See also: Bastiat's Broken Window.) And they find it difficult to account for themselves when it takes years to rebuild purely because of limitations they set.

 

[foresterab]

Touché

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Damn...I owe that guy a beer.

What a clean professional response on so many aspects.

 

[foresterab]

What percentage of fires are caused by ATV's and or their operators?
Break that down even more into how many because of lack of spark arrestors?
I am curious what the data shows here in Canada.

It's funny because of the half a dozen or so ATV fires I can think of being on spark arrestors were not even looked at....but the thick mat of grass around the exhaust pipes smoking from driving through muskeg or grass sure have started each one. Some were total vehicle losses....others just mud/peat/grass dropped off behind them on the trail.

Don't get me wrong...also been on other fires where a spark arrestor would have been a big difference in what happened.

But ATV's, like any vehicle, take maintenance and awareness that that ground I was driving over for an hour might not be ideal. Nothing makes you move faster than stopping to check the trail ahead and realizing your quad is about to light on fire due to peat moss packed around the exhaust.