Well Canada's certainly a blaze. Now It's horrific in terms of people and wild life. Worst time line due to having started at nesting time and continued through birthing. Though ma nature's renewal process as far as land IMO. MY question, with all the years of American west wild fires has anyone done a study on animal/ insect migration. Do these fires push animals to other states. I know there have been a few big cats finding their way to the east. Are mid west states seeing more western normal animals? With the huge land mass of these Canadian fires will there be a movement of wild life south to the U.S.? What do you know or think about this?
On wildfires I walked the day after they are covered n deer tracks, I have not seen many animals cause in a fire other than 1 flaming rabbit that jumped over the line into unburned fuel and some wood rats. Also in Canada the fires put zero dent in the insect population they are there on you 24 7
There you go, first hand experience. So they are not seeing herd movement due to a time of low food before the green up of new forbs after a fire? I know there is usually a great flush of green after, but how long does that take?
Out west takes longer unless there is a good monsoon season, in the midwest on a spring fire the grasses will be up faster than the non burned areas because the black warms the soil faster.
How hot the fire burned also a factor for recovery. Super hot fires pretty much sterilize the ground...a quick lower temp fire more like a controlled burn can unleash tremendous growth. @Sota mentioned his exp...on occasion you'll find charred bones of some that couldn't escape...maybe surrounded and couldn't escape. More often only those in close proximatity seem to move...there are a lot of youtube vids (esp elk hunts like born and raised outdoors) that were hunting 'relatively 'close (within 5-10 miles) and encountering wildlife. 5-10 miles is a lot closer than I'd want to be depending on wind, but likely not considered 'close' in Sotas experience.
So what type of fires are burning in Canada? Apparently it's the largest burn in their recorded history of fires . Last night's video was wild . The cam literally picked up the material in the smoke. It was a bit eery to see and explains the dry cough I've had for weeks.
