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Yep alot bigger fires here never made the news but 90,000 people getting evacuated from a place that greatly helps drive the Canadian and American economy definitely has opened a few eyes.

92F at the start of May in northern Alberta is definitely a heat wave but you have to factor in heat being absorbed from the sun by the dark green landscape of the Boreal Forest. I logged in this forest when it was -40 below on a bright sunny day, snow was melting off the dark green spruce...

Read the story Raj.....

The Japanese tried it in 1944. Here's a good read, memories of stories from my childhood days in Saskatchewan. http://kentondejong.com/blog/the-bombing-of-saskatchewan

Sorry I wasn't clear, I meant other recent fires in Alberta were arson started like the firefighters son for example I just saw the CTV news yesterday and they said there was no reports of sightings of lightning in the Fort Mac area prior to the fires. So I think man made is the culprit whether...

Trouble today is arson is a major problem what now looks like what happened in Fort Mac. Already a couple of arsonists have been charged in Alberta, one of them was a firefighters son looking forward to a season of steady employment.

Fire makes our Boreal Forest healthy. About every 150 years it's completely burned in patches of rotation . We do have the odd big spruce tree that have escaped the fires and lived to be 300 years or more. As long as forest land is protected as a park and fires and logging is kept out with...

Living with trees has its risks alright I see it all the time up here in Thompson dead center in the heart of the Boreal Forest. Like Fort Mac we only have one highway into our community surrounded by thousands of square miles of heavy forest that deer can't even adapt too. My advice is all...

Not all of Canada is covered by the Boreal Forest. Any fuel wood from drought or insects is not a problem in the Boreal Forest. Funny how little most people know of the world's largest forest.

No pine beetle up at Fort Mac. This is the Boreal Forest.. Mostly spruce, jack pine, balsam fir and tamarack. If any dead trees are seen by outside sources they're not dead, they're just tamarack (larch ) with dead brown winter needles. They're just starting to green up now. This fire was man...

No recent lightening strikes in the Fort McMurray area so speculation the fire was man made. We had a fire here in our Manitoba Boreal forest a few years back . Luckily no towns were in the way but damage was intense. Heavy spruce and pine forest burning under strong winds with plus 90 F/30 C...