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Forum: The Maple Leaf

Aug 26th 2018, 12:48 am

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Wildfire season.

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Posted By scrubbedexpat091

Re: Wildfire season.

Some ocean winds and a bit of rain, and Vancouver is back to normal. Air Quality is a 4.

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Aug 23rd 2018, 3:14 am

Replies: 35

Wildfire season.

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Posted By scrubbedexpat091

Re: Wildfire season.

https://www.squamishchief.com/unravelling-an-unprecedented-natural-disaster-why-is-b-c-burning-every-summer-1.23408045

"The beetle’s proliferation also highlighted how certain trees — lodge pole...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Aug 20th 2018, 7:07 am

Replies: 35

Wildfire season.

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Posted By scrubbedexpat091

Re: Wildfire season.

The winds have clearly shifted, the air quality has gotten significantly worse in the last 4 hours and now the smell of smoke very strong. At 8pm when I checked the closest air monitoring station to...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Aug 20th 2018, 2:58 am

Replies: 35

Wildfire season.

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Posted By scrubbedexpat091

Re: Wildfire season.

Example from California about the benefits of fire and certain species, the Giant Sequoias for example need fire.

Fire and the Giant Sequoia (http://www.150.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=27588)

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Forum: The Maple Leaf

Aug 20th 2018, 1:26 am

Replies: 35

Wildfire season.

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Posted By scrubbedexpat091

Re: Wildfire season.

Problem is humans think they can control nature, forests have burned long before humans ever appeared and will continue to do so long after we are gone. Humans really need to learn we cannot manage...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Aug 18th 2018, 11:38 pm

Replies: 35

Wildfire season.

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Posted By scrubbedexpat091

Re: Wildfire season.

It's very yellowish in Vancouver today from the smoke haze, hard to explain exactly what the light looks like.

Luckily our air quality isn't super bad, only moderate health risk, nothing like...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Aug 18th 2018, 2:21 pm

Replies: 35

Wildfire season.

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Posted By scrubbedexpat091

Re: Wildfire season.

2018 British Columbia wildfires | Google Crisis Map (http://google.org/crisismap/google.com/2018-british-columbia-wildfires)

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Aug 18th 2018, 5:40 am

Replies: 35

Wildfire season.

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Posted By scrubbedexpat091

Re: Wildfire season.

A fire in WA state has crossed into BC

https://globalnews.ca/news/4395253/horns-mountain-wildfire-crosses-border-into-b-c/?utm_medium=Facebook&utm_source=GlobalBC

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Aug 17th 2018, 6:05 pm

Replies: 35

Wildfire season.

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Posted By scrubbedexpat091

Re: Wildfire season.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4393740/prince-george-wildfire-smoke/?utm_medium=Facebook&utm_source=GlobalBC

When looking for a place to live in BC, we never took fires into account. Some of the towns...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Aug 15th 2018, 4:35 pm

Replies: 35

Wildfire season.

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Posted By scrubbedexpat091

Wildfire season.

It's wildfire season in BC.

State of emergency has been declared.

As of yesterday there were 566 fires burning in the province.

29 evacuation orders.

48 evacuation alerts.

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