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Old Posted Jul 17, 2014, 5:26 AM
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I don't really "follow" any news source. I just typed "Edmonton Ash" into google and it's the first one that came up that wasn't Sun news.
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lol. Well, I did see two particles of ash today blowing in the wind, but it was with big lulls in between.
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What is sobering is seeing the fire risk/rating in central BC. When you realize that practically that entire portion of the province is full of dead forest the potential for a good chunk of BC to go up in flames is frightening. Then again maybe this is nature's way of dealing with the pine beetle. Perhaps a bad fire season will eliminate their food source and stop or slow the spread of the infestation eastward.
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The differential pressure across the filters in my air handling units has gone up noticably in the last two days, the high rise systems being most notably affected. So yes, we are getting particulate in the city. Yesterday seemed a lot worse. The rain today helped.

Headed for The West Kootenays, Okanagan and Caribou this saturday for a two week vacation. It's going to be interesting to see what's going on in the BC interior
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They are evacuating the town of Chelan, Washington due to a forest fire entering their borders. It is in the American "Okanogan" region, the same as our Okanagan. About 3 hours south of Osoyoos.
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Will be keeping an eye on Alberta 511, I will heading down Highway 40 Sunday and the are 3 fires in the general area of travel.
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What is sobering is seeing the fire risk/rating in central BC. When you realize that practically that entire portion of the province is full of dead forest the potential for a good chunk of BC to go up in flames is frightening. Then again maybe this is nature's way of dealing with the pine beetle. Perhaps a bad fire season will eliminate their food source and stop or slow the spread of the infestation eastward.
Actually you are more correct than you know, the interior of BC needs to burn big time to correct many ecological problems (largely caused by fire suppression) They are called forests of fire for a reason!
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Was out in the northwest section of the province on the weekend. The little bit of rain Saturday night help the fire situation a bit. The high humidity helped as well. Drove down Highway 40 from Grande Prairie to Hinton, along the west boarder of Alberta and saw no sign of any fires in that area. In fact the forest in that area is quite lush.

The ground is still quite dry though.
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Lots of people don't realize that pine forests have evolved with fire and it's a very important part of the life cycle. Fire gets rid of the dead or diseased trees, keeps things like the pine beetle at bay, and some types of pine cones only release their seeds in fire conditions. People have broken the cycle, so we get summers like this where fires get really big and are hard to control.


Family in West Kelowna have been posting pics of the fire there, looks massive, though it sounds like they are starting to get it under control.
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There is a program up north where the first nations groups were taught how to do prescribed burns. (when the weather is right). One elder said that after , he started seeing moose and other big game that he only saw as a kid. A lot of the fires in NWT are just left to burn, only those that will impact communities are fought. I think though that has a lot more to do with resources.

Also Schweitzer Provincial Park Near Hinton has an area they talk about the fire that came through 100 years ago and how the forest came back.
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A personal pet peeve of mine is when there's something obviously wrong with a map -- in this case, the difference between MB/SK/NU.

Clearly Manitoba authorities are less paranoid about forest fires than their immediate neighbors, and the person who made the map didn't normalize the data.
I'm not sure that's the case, it might just be a lack of good data. For example, the contours in AB and BC are approximately continuous in the highly populated and closely monitored Rocky Mountain parks, but then discontinuous in the North (with AB being continuous with NWT but not BC).

Data in national parks may be from fire lookout stations, but farther in the wilderness it might be from overflights or firefighter reports. If they aren't actively fighting many fires in Manitoba and resources are being directed elsewhere, that might be the entirety of the differences.
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This very rarely happens to us (our ground, where it isn't bare rock, is generally wet, spongy moss and lush low plant cover below the trees), but we're having wildfires due to the unusually hot, dry summer.

Two are burning in suburban St. John's, one of which is just smoke (no visible flame yet) and the other is now under control. The Province has banned all open fires, no exceptions anywhere, under any circumstances.
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