Lesson of Canada's Fires: Better forest management, Not Utopian Fantasies and ideological nonsense!

Partially recommendable! However, I bet poor forest management is largely to blame for the devastating effects of the recent forest fires in Canada.

Yes, blame climate change for obvious government failure! Very convenient!

By the way, this article is way too long! The article is unfortunately also very indirect quoting another journalist and no direct evidence is provided about forest mismanagement in Canada! It is very circumstantial!

Actually, the quoted article provides some substantiation for forest mismanagement in Canada!

"The crisis of the day is a series of large-scale forest fires in Canada—at least some apparently started by arson—that caused a huge amount of smoke to descend on the United States. Some areas got hit particularly hard, especially on the East Coast. ...
Have leftists ever considered that sometimes a fire is just a fire? No, we are supposed to believe that every natural disaster is the result of man-made climate change, and if you don’t cede all power over the economy and your way of life over to them and their allies, then you are to blame for all disasters to come. ..

According to the Canadian National Fire Database, the total number of forest fires has dropped in recent decades.

Unfortunately, what’s also been dropping in recent decades is effective forest management. The result has been much larger fires. ...

The New York Post’s Miranda Devine writes that the situation in Canada “is similar to that in Australia, where green ideology and chronic government underfunding mean that the forests currently ablaze have not been managed properly for years.” 

Devine continues:

Instead of dead wood and undergrowth being removed regularly using low-intensity controlled or ‘prescribed’ burns, forests have become overgrown tinderboxes. Fire trails that used to allow first responders easy access to the forest have closed over as vast tracts of land are locked away from humans. Logging and other commercial practices that used to self-interestedly tend to forest health have been phased out.

Poor funding, bureaucratic red tape, and green ideology have suppressed Canada’s ability to manage its forests and clear the fuel that turns an ordinary fire into a towering inferno.

It’s a remarkably similar situation to what we have in large parts of the United States. As I’ve written about the California wildfires, forest management on public land has been lacking for decades. Federal agencies tasked with the job have unlearned what previous generations learned. And, unfortunately, the federal government owns a huge amount of land in the West. Not good. ..."

Lesson of Canada's Fires: Better Forestry, Not Utopian Fantasies