Powerful wildfires devastating Canada captured in satellite imagery

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A rapidly spreading wildfire burns through part of the largest national park in the Canadian Rockies as satellites track its growth and movement.

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[the_post_war_dream]

Weird how the article makes no mention of the root causes.

The Logging industrial complex has replaced Canadas 'Forests' with monocrop pine plantations, which get killed by pine beetle, and then the standing dead trees go up in flames the next summer. Logging megacorporations drain the wetlands, destroy the soil humus that stores humidity well into the dry season, and erodes our topsoil that takes millennia to properly replace.

This abuse of our forests increases both flooding AND forest fire events, we have allowed billionaires to steal our 'forests' and turn them into cash crops. Pine Plantations that don't have the soil humus, wetlands that a old growth forest would. water absorbing (and ergo cooling) properties that a tall, healthy, biodiverse, well shaded old growth forest has. the destruction of biodiverse natural spaces is accelerated by widespread use of pesticides to kill all the broad leaf trees since they grow slower (and ergo make less money for these billionaires). The monocrop pine plantations we incorrectly still call 'forests' catch pine beetle en-mass, and then go up in flames in the heat of the summer since most of them are now dead and dry.

Write your politicians about the unsustainable actions of logging megacorporations who are pillaging rare ecosystems as fast as possible and shipping the unprocessed logs overseas. This is NOT a sustainable supply chain of industries, this is billionaires pillaging public resources as fast as possible. Sustainable logging is great, but these are not a family wood lot thats burning. the eco-crimes that Canada encourages is destroying a long term asset for a quick buck. Ecotourism alone would be worth more than the 1 time logging of a 500 year old tree.

BC Timber Sales is what you get when you cross Rhino Poachers with billion dollar, taxpayer-subsidized, for-profit, Corporate Industrial Complexes with titanic negative externalities.

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[firegoat]

Fire was caused by lightning strikes , maybe you should protest Mother Nature over this one ?

 

[ng218]

Weird how the article makes no mention of the root causes.

The Logging industrial complex has replaced Canadas 'Forests' with monocrop pine plantations, which get killed by pine beetle, and then the standing dead trees go up in flames the next summer. Logging megacorporations drain the wetlands, destroy the soil humus that stores humidity well into the dry season, and erodes our topsoil that takes millennia to properly replace.

This abuse of our forests increases both flooding AND forest fire events, we have allowed billionaires to steal our 'forests' and turn them into cash crops. Pine Plantations that don't have the soil humus, wetlands that a old growth forest would. water absorbing (and ergo cooling) properties that a tall, healthy, biodiverse, well shaded old growth forest has. the destruction of biodiverse natural spaces is accelerated by widespread use of pesticides to kill all the broad leaf trees since they grow slower (and ergo make less money for these billionaires). The monocrop pine plantations we incorrectly still call 'forests' catch pine beetle en-mass, and then go up in flames in the heat of the summer since most of them are now dead and dry.

Write your politicians about the unsustainable actions of logging megacorporations who are pillaging rare ecosystems as fast as possible and shipping the unprocessed logs overseas. This is NOT a sustainable supply chain of industries, this is billionaires pillaging public resources as fast as possible. Sustainable logging is great, but these are not a family wood lot thats burning. the eco-crimes that Canada encourages is destroying a long term asset for a quick buck. Ecotourism alone would be worth more than the 1 time logging of a 500 year old tree.

BC Timber Sales is what you get when you cross Rhino Poachers with billion dollar, taxpayer-subsidized, for-profit, Corporate Industrial Complexes with titanic negative externalities.

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ancientforestalliance.org

I don't know what your credentials are but this being your first comment is kind of suspicious...

 

[Unclear Engineer]

I don't know the original poster, but his points seem pretty consistent with what I see going on in the ecosystem around me, in the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S.

Climax forest near me is a mixture of oak and beech trees. There is a small amount preserved by The Nature Conservancy. Right next to it is an old planted Loblolly pine forest that is also being preserved and let "go wild", so the hardwoods are working into that, too. The difference in diversity of the wildlife is apparent between the 2 sections.

There is currently a big trend in this area to cut down the planted pines and plant corn or soy beans. It is starting to concern the DNR folks, because it is so extensive around the whole region.