If you do choose to enjoy a walk in the woods, make sure you’re not doing it in Nova Scotia or New Brunswick. The fine is $28,000 (!?) and change, or else 200 hours of (ahem!) “community service” (https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4333920/posts). And no, you won’t stumble into the Teddy Bears’ Picnic.
The draconian penalties for “walking in the woods [sic.]’ are necessary, the, um, authorities say, to reduce the chances of a forest fire.
I wonder if they’ll arrest the teddy bears.
They’ve had some monstrous forest fires in Canada, the past few years. Some of them were set on purpose. There will probably be more.
Oh, Canada!
I just checked the live fire maps. NS has one fire right now. NB has four. All tiny.
Across the boreal forest, there are so many large fires, the map is covered with fire symbols (the larger the fire, the larger the symbol) over lapping each other until you zoon in closer. It’s the worst fire season in 30 years.
Which means it’s not actually all that unusual to have this many fires. Though I’d say all of them are “human caused”. Our governments, federal and provincial, have not been managing our forests properly. They’ve bent the knee to “environmental” groups that insist forests must be untouched by humans and left in their “natural” state. Well, this is what you get from that “natural” state. A tinderbox.
But it’s much more useful for governments to do stupid things like ban people from going into the bush, even on their own property, than actually do proper forest management. That would mean allowing prescribed burns, clear cutting and forest raking, and we can’t have that!
Here in New Jersey, I’m amazed we haven’t yet had a colossal fire in the Pine Barrens.
Holy smokes!
This policy is like passing a law that says no one can break the law – it’s ridiculous. Talk about a helicopter government – I wonder if they have laws on which side of a street you can walk on.
It wouldn’t surprise me if they did.