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riversedge

(82,630 posts) Fri Jul 17, 2026, 06:25 AM 17 hrs ago

To our American friends, this is a map of forests in North America. 347 million hectares of wilderness in highly remote [View all]

Interesting map

To our American friends, this is a map of forests in North America.

347 million hectares of wilderness in highly remote areas cannot be contained by “proper forest management”.

These are enormous, mostly uninhabited areas that are prone to lightning strikes causing wildfires.

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To our American friends, this is a map of forests in North America. 347 million hectares of wilderness in highly remote [View all] riversedge 17 hrs ago OP

Not news to anyone with a maturity of 10-year-old or more. Girard442 16 hrs ago #1

An idea that requires critical thinking skills Dr. T 16 hrs ago #2

What? You mean you didn't rake your forests? Biophilic 15 hrs ago #3

This idea that poor forest management caused this Johnny2X2X 15 hrs ago #4

Fire is absolutely critical in the health of the large Boreal forests in the Eastern and Western hemisphere's Cheezoholic 15 hrs ago #5

Please break this up into paragraphs. Thank you. ❤️ littlemissmartypants 14 hrs ago #14

The white area of Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba USED to be forest also FakeNoose 15 hrs ago #6

Excellent point. nt moniss 15 hrs ago #10

Let's also not forget that the US can't send the help it used to send. GoCubsGo 15 hrs ago #7

no explanation markie 15 hrs ago #8

Have they raked their leaves? Guess not. twodogsbarking 15 hrs ago #9

When the fires are in Canada they are poor forest managers Hope22 14 hrs ago #11

He's going to be in New Jersey for the World Cup final match on Sunday FakeNoose 14 hrs ago #16

I was gonna say that sounds promising but you are on the mark! Hope22 13 hrs ago #19

Lemme guess, Glaisne 14 hrs ago #12

Sigh lonely bird 14 hrs ago #13

Please catch me up. It is early yet, and I seem to have missed some niyad 14 hrs ago #17

Certainly lonely bird 5 hrs ago #22

Dear Goddess !!! I knew that bennie is stupid, but. . . damn!! niyad 50 min ago #23

catering to the ignorant GOP base Skittles 46 min ago #24

And that fact is so damned depressing! niyad 25 min ago #25

We've done a piss poor job of forest management for many, many reasons for hundreds of years. littlemissmartypants 14 hrs ago #15

Granted but the boreal forest is a whole different matter paleotn 8 hrs ago #21

Dear Goddess, what stupidity have I missed this time? niyad 14 hrs ago #18

Most Americans don't get it paleotn 9 hrs ago #20