Chart of the Day (CotD) Canada Wildfires and the Scorched Earth

by Eldric Vero

The following articles are relevant to this CotD:

1) Government of Nova Scotia News August 5, 2025 “Travel, Activities in Woods Restricted to Prevent Wildfires” (see link: https://news.novascotia.ca/en/2025/08/05/travel-activities-woods-restricted-prevent-wildfires ). As per the news article “The Province is restricting travel and activities in the woods because continued hot, dry conditions have greatly increased the risk of wildfires. The restrictions, effective as of 4 p.m. today, August 5, include: hiking, camping, fishing and the use of vehicles in the woods are not permitted, trail systems through woods are off limits and camping is allowed only in campgrounds. These and other measures are in place on provincial Crown and private land until October 15 or until conditions allow them to be lifted. The fine for violating the restrictions is $25,000.”

2) Indigenous Opinions August 11, 2025 “Canada Is Paying to Burn Its Own Forests – And Then Blaming You” (see link: https://acanadianshame.substack.com/p/canada-is-paying-to-burn-its-own ). From the article written by Darren Grimes: Across this country, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, our governments are quietly turning public forests into firetraps – at your expense and then weaponizing the resulting chaos to strip away freedoms in the name of “climate emergencies.” They call it vegetation management. The rest of us call it what it is: state-funded ecocide. Glyphosate doesn’t politely “target competing species.” It wipes out anything green, stripping biodiversity from the forest floor to the canopy. That means destroying food sources for moose, deer, and countless smaller species, creating monocultures of fast-growing, low-diversity softwood, and leaving dead, dried biomass littered across thousands of hectares — perfect fuel for wildfire ignition. The real arsonist? Policy. Not lightning, not campers, not some angry sky god — government policy. But the punishment falls on you, while the cause remains funded and protected.

This CotD is an update of the August 23rd, 2023 CotD “Canada Wildfires and the Scorched Earth”

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This image is from the Natural Resources Canada (NRC) under Canadian Wildland Fire Information System (https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/home). The NRC website is a very good source of information related to wildfires and it is recommended to view the various maps and data.

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