Morning

Tbh if we had money my sister and I wanted to volunteer as well

They start naturally, they happen a lot in Australia, but due to not being allowed to cut trees down to stop spread of fire, it’s way bigger this time, thank the eco warriors for that

Yeah... had the same issue here in Oregon 20 years ago

It was during one of the high times for rioting against cutting down any trees

Ended up with a wildfire that absolutely devastated a large portion of the cascades

I drive through it every year

Thing is you gotta cut some down so that fire can’t jump between all the trees

Yeah and we were trying too hard to prevent wildfires as well

It amazes me when people refuse to be pragmatic lol

Is it true that the 80% center of Australia is uninhabitable?

Preventing wildfires just makes it way worse

We had refusal to cut trees, and we were too good at preventing fuckin' wildfires

So it made a massive one

i have arrive

This was their plan all along to bring down the treechiarchy.

Lol

Ugh, it’s like common sense has flown in favour of stupidity

Oh I hiked through a lot of the area where the wildfire hit too

I got a much bigger sense of the scope this last summer after hiking around a mountain

It is convenient that now there is a hell of a lot of land cleared though huh

Getting sick from the heat lol

😔 2020 is really a hell for me

And my family...

Soo peeps... playing dragon age origins... sword and shield warrior or great sword two handed? 😉

There was a lot of outrage over the eagle creek fire we had a couple years ago but like

Honestly the damage isnt as bad as it was made out to be, it was handled really well

@Immortality Hold up, I'll ask my ex.

Jkjk lol

A lot of it did get scorched but it was a healthy scorching. It hit patches instead of just burning through a whole section of forest

Exactly, that’s the point of controlled deforestation, ideally, that’s how we should do all our lumber industry

Cause at the same time we’re actually helping the environment...

Yeah

People were mostly upset because it was started by a kid with a firework

But bigger fires were started in the same year and year after that got much more big

It was mostly publicized so much because it was near Portland and the gorge is very well visited

My province is huge on the forestry and fishing industries.

Yeah same here

I think Oregon is one of the biggest suppliers of lumber in the country

I cut trees down quite often myself haha

And we're still doing a better job of maintaining our forests on top of it