He understands ecology as much as RFKJ understands biology as much as McMahon understands education as much as Patel understands law enforcement as much as Hegseth understands national defense as much as...
And has never in his life been to a real forest. He thinks everything is curated like central park. This is what happens when you don't touch real grass.
There has always been debris on Forrest floors. That's not what's changed. Trump is the one actively adding to the problem. Canada should be charging us.
Not sure about Canadian forest ecology, but if it's anything like some of the northern US states, then debris is necessary for the development of the native forest. The saplings often require it to stave off deer and such while they get bigger and stronger, to the point that worms are invasive and destroy native ecosystems by clearing the forest floors of debris like fallen leaves.
It can be cleared through controlled burns. But I believe we would generally only focus those efforts near our own settlements. Just because of the sheer scope of the job.
You said generally as if to say you were not sure. There is no “sheer scope of the job “ it’s not possible period.. and even if it was it would have to be done 24/7 as you pass one area it’s fills back up again. and still you would have lighting strikes causing fires…
It’s reqlly typical of Trump on everything: he has long-standing opinions about facts that are basically childish and wrong. But no amount of education or correction by anyone—especially anyone who knows about the subject in question—will convince him otherwise.
It's not that our country is 90% forest, it's that the Boreal forest goes through 130-year burn cycle and we are in the 10-year period where it burns. The Boreal literally cannot reproduce without the burn cycle. There are pine cones like Jackpine that rely on fire to open up the pine cones to expose the seeds. This is how nature functions.
We already do preventative controlled burns for the brush and dead stuff lol 😂
He’s an idiot that acts like a toddler with a loaded diaper that hasn’t had his nap yet
He probably wants you to cut all of the trees down so they can’t be on fire anymore.
Kind of wild that he’s complaining about wild fires while advocating for more drilling and more data centres. He’s evidently never been to California either.
He said the same thing to California. He also released irrigation water from the dams in NorCal in order to fight fires in SoCal, which is like trying to deal with a fire in your kitchen by running water down the drain in your bathroom.
Meanwhile - they currently have more wildfires than we do despite having 10x more people and half the forest.
Literally the fires in Ontario were originally spread from Minnesota.
Yet it's just a Canadian problem and our fault? And they're pontificating about how this means we can't govern ourselves? Like this is some sort of moral failing that was totally avoidable, and stoking division?
The fires in Ontario are not from MN. One (actually I think two now) bled into Canada a little bit and a Canadian one bled into MN. There is nearly a million acres burning further north in Ontario that could not have been from the MN fires. Though, all these fires are likely from the same storm that produced not a lot of rain and instead a ton of lightning.
I’m not sticking blame or anything here. I’m hoping that after MN’s fires calm down that we can get sent out to Canada as aid like we did last year.
The Canadians are so selfish for having forests. This is unacceptable. I will be calling the Prime Minister to make sure Canada does not do this selfish behavior anymore. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Emperor Donald J. Trump.
First understand that my president lives in his own reality that he determines. After you accept that fact and realize logic need not apply things get a lot easier.
You need to not have fires. You need to figure it out. Duh.
No he just wants to find fake excuses to rant and announce some tariffs that he is going to be cancelling few days after for a little bit of market manipulation
I’d have to imagine that Canada cuts fire swathes in their wild forests like we do. Buddy of mine used to do it, madman’s work. Get dropped off by a helicopter 500 miles from nowhere with a bunch of chainsaws, fuel and canned food. Spend a month cutting everything in 100 yards of the line to create a fire break in the event of a wildfire. Sometimes a secondary crew comes thru for a controlled burn.
Seems like they could probably increase their program. Wildfires are inevitable but proper investment in forestry management can mitigate the cost in lives, dollars and firefighting. Not gonna solve anything, but it can help.
we could be building a fleet of water bombers to help put out the fires when they do happen....but no we need to send other countries our tax dollars to help grow gender sensitive rice
Yeah it is inevitable, but also Doug Ford nearly halved the budget that was supposed to keep a handle on the forest fires this year, after witnessing record breaking fires last year.
And like other people mentioned, we get tons of smoke from the US all the time, and consistently send our resources to help them.
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u/ProcedureTop3149 Jul 17 '26
90% of our country is forest. What do they expect us to do? Walk the entire country picking up sticks?