Chad Thomas started fighting wildfires at 16, sacrificing every summer since battling the blazes that claim ever-growing tracts of the Yukon’s boreal forest and peatlands. As a young firefighter from the village of Teslin, he’s required to jump out of helicopters to fend off flames in the most remote regions of the country, and he took pride until recently in never allowing a structure to become ashes. But he’s a key observer of a changing environment.
Now 31, he is the CEO of Yukon First Nations Wildfire, a firefighting service that draws from eight Indigenous governments across the territory. This season was the organization’s first on the ground, with 80 trained firefighters. At the time of this writing, there had been 111 wildfires in the Yukon in 2019, and 44 were still active. The total hectares burned—252,902—is nearly 50 per cent more than the territory’s 10-year average.
Mike Flannigan, a professor in the University of Alberta’s renewable resources department and director of the Canada Wildfires, says three ingredients go into making a wildfire: fuel, ignition and, most importantly, weather that is warm, dry and windy. Weather, he says, influences the other two. More worrying still is what’s being burned. Peat is a thick, organic material found within and above the Arctic treeline that has been storing and accumulating carbon over millennia.
Wildfires are typically left to burn if they are not a threat to local society, but the territorial government is preparing for when fires inevitably put communities at risk, devising evacuation plans, thinning out the fuel around towns and villages, and conducting prescribed burns.
Man made in Cda and Amazon,..oops you didn’t want that point made!? 🤯
Just a little history lesson for the cult of man made climate change adherents : climate change has been around since the formation of the earth. History has dozens of ancient examples of civilizations moving, adapting or, failing when confronted with climate change.
Tall trees above the arctic circle? Hmmm.
In other news the media union continues to desperately try and get the liberal party re-elected with their propaganda
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