one of the big debates right now on west coast fires is whether this is climate change or a forestry management issue.

for those claiming that this is climate change, i have a question:

then why does it stop cold at the canadian border?

i have already written on the issues with forestry management.

it's clear that piles of regulations to protect the fluffy butted warbler have left forests in dangerous condition. https://twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1303346305863946247?s=20

and that forests are overcrowded, unhealthy, and packed with tinder and excess fuel.

it's true all up and down the west coast of the US, but it stops like a painter's stencil at the canadian border. https://twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1303346308703453184?s=20

even if one accepts the idea that climate change is creating more fires (itself contradicted by the data) that would seem to make forestry management even more important.

if risk rises then so should care for forests. https://twitter.com/ElonBachman/status/1298965603991121921?s=20

instead, the very same people lamenting all this climate change and claiming it causes fires are opposed to pretty much every policy that would reduce them from logging to thinning to establishing defensible space.

they are their own worst enemies.

like so much environmental policy, it's a self-contradictory mess.

it's like knowing you're going through a car wash and demanding that the convertible top be left down then getting upset that everyone got hurt and and the car interior wrecked.

people keep trying to claim that "ooh, that's just the map".

it's not.

canada is having a very low fire year.

please do some actual homework before making such baseless claims

you can pull the data direct from the canadian government site.

it's not like it's hard to find...

https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/report/graphs#gr1

more useful info:

(thanks to @JSteinbachsND for the link) https://www.nelsonstar.com/opinion/guest-column-b-c-has-the-most-sustainably-managed-forests-in-the-world/