AMERICANALMANAC (Charles McAdams) - Canadian wildfire smoke drifts south again — and so does the blame for Ottawa's forest management failures
Smoke from Canadian wildfires shrouded the Manhattan skyline on July 16, choked residents across Michigan, and pushed air quality into unhealthy territory in states across the northern United States. The response from Washington was swift and pointed: President Trump accused Ottawa of "Willful Negligence" in managing its vast forests and threatened to fold the economic […] The post Canadian wildfire smoke drifts south again — and so does the blame for Ottawa's forest management failures appeared first on American Almanac .
Smoke from Canadian wildfires shrouded the Manhattan skyline on July 16, choked residents across Michigan, and pushed air quality into unhealthy territory in states across the northern United States. The response from Washington was swift and pointed: President Trump accused Ottawa of "Willful Negligence" in managing its vast forests and threatened to fold the economic cost of cross-border smoke into tariffs on Canadian imports. Trump's broadside, posted on Truth Social, did not arrive in a vacuum. A Canadian Senate committee report, forestry experts, and a delegation of Republican lawmakers had already been building the same case, that Canada's refusal to thin its forests, cut firebreaks, and conduct prescribed burns has turned a natural…Open