2026 Wildfire Season

[Haggis]

It doesn't seem to matter with these legislators that a Canadian helicopter pilot died fighting an American wildfire in Colorado last week. Or is just "expected" of us?

Maybe after the next major hurricane in the southern states we won't be able to send any line crews because they will be busy cleaning up the forest floors

 

[daftandbarmy]

It doesn't seem to matter with these legislators that a Canadian helicopter pilot died fighting an American wildfire in Colorado last week. Or is just "expected" of us?

Maybe after the next major hurricane in the southern states we won't be able to send any line crews because they will be busy cleaning up the forest floors

It would be a terrible shame if anything happened to the critically important water the USA gets from Canada.

A terrible shame...

About the Columbia River Treaty | Columbia River Treaty

In 1964, Canada and the United States (U.S.) ratified the Columbia River Treaty (Treaty), a transboundary water management agreement. The impetus for the Treaty was the disastrous flood of 1948 which devastated the City of Vanport in Oregon and cost many lives, along with growing power demand in...

engage.gov.bc.ca

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

It would be a terrible shame if anything happened to the critically important water the USA gets from Canada.

A terrible shame...

About the Columbia River Treaty | Columbia River Treaty

In 1964, Canada and the United States (U.S.) ratified the Columbia River Treaty (Treaty), a transboundary water management agreement. The impetus for the Treaty was the disastrous flood of 1948 which devastated the City of Vanport in Oregon and cost many lives, along with growing power demand in...

engage.gov.bc.ca

Yes.

Nature has no political boundary that it respects. So really, it's up to political entities to figure out how to best deal with nature so as to profit political entities as best as possible.

 

[HavokFour]

Maybe this could be an opportunity to educate the public on the importance of letting certain wildfires burn, and not putting out any and all fires. The result is a ton of fuel that should have burned off naturally that instead built up over decades, on top of the weather getting more and more out of what we'd consider "normal".

 

[daftandbarmy]

Maybe this could be an opportunity to educate the public on the importance of letting certain wildfires burn, and not putting out any and all fires. The result is a ton of fuel that should have burned off naturally that instead built up over decades, on top of the weather getting more and more out of what we'd consider "normal".

'The public' thinks the stupid Linus tree on the corner of their block needs to be saved, or the world will die.

Meanwhile, this guy...

https://twitter.com/x/status/2078542228746555810

 

[Furniture]

Maybe this could be an opportunity to educate the public on the importance of letting certain wildfires burn, and not putting out any and all fires. The result is a ton of fuel that should have burned off naturally that instead built up over decades, on top of the weather getting more and more out of what we'd consider "normal".

When I was back home on PEI this summer, there was an expert on the radio talking about how all the deadfall from Fiona wasn't a problem, because it had been four years, and all the dead wood was rotted away...

He clearly hadn't spent much time outside of Charlottetown, where there are still tons of dead and dry trees off the ground, leaning on one another, or against living trees.

 

[Viking17]

When I was back home on PEI this summer, there was an expert on the radio talking about how all the deadfall from Fiona wasn't a problem, because it had been four years, and all the dead wood was rotted away...

He clearly hadn't spent much time outside of Charlottetown, where there are still tons of dead and dry trees off the ground, leaning on one another, or against living trees.

This is the same official that stated the fire load had not changed after Fiona as there were the same number of trees. Many of the old roads and trails are blocked with deadfall making access a challenge. This year we've had one 'forest' fire that required multiple depts ... lots of dragging hoses through the woods. We expect more and our fire dept just bought a wildland truck.