Reduced to ash: "Jasper (National Park - next door to Banff) was Alberta's piece of heaven on earth, known for its

[applegrove]

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"Jasper (National Park - next door to Banff) was Alberta’s piece of heaven on earth, known for its majestic natural beauty and abundant wildlife. It has been reduced to ash in a raging fire and it is devastating. My heart goes out to everyone affected.

[elleng]

1. ;-(

[Sky Jewels]

2. Oh gawd...

[samplegirl]

3. So devastating

a friend has been keeping me posted.

[MissB]

4. I'm hoping it's not as bad as the news is saying it is

Such a truly lovely place. The Icefields Parkway offers stunning views and Jasper is a sweet town.

[MrWowWow]

5. Whose Garden Was This?

https://m.

&pp=ygUgd2hvc2UgZ2FyZGVuIHdhcyB0aGlzIHRvbSBwYXh0b24%3D

[applegrove]

6. Too sad.

[Big Blue Marble]

22. I think often of this song of my youth.

How ominous it sounded then. How prescient it was. How expressive it is now
in defining the grief we feel at the loss the very nature that sustains us.

[Roy Rolling]

7. So sad

Canadians are such nice people. Forests are such ethereal and spiritual places. What is wrong with our species?

Why can’t we have anything nice anymore?

[applegrove]

13. There are some pinecones from certain fir trees

in BC that only germinate after there has been a fire so it is a somewhat natural occurrence. Maybe all the firefighting over the last 120 years has made the forests vulnerable to bigger badder burns. Either way I hope August brings torrential rains out west.

[Big Blue Marble]

23. The question is will these areas reforest as they always have.

I have seen intense heat and drought snuff out the tiny new sprouts of tender young pines.
Even a the normal reforestation, it will be at least forty years to regain the young forest.

I am not sure our climate will allow the full reforestation of these areas. More likely in
50 years the ecology will be quite different.

[applegrove]

24. So sad. What have we done.

[CrispyQ]

27. "...in 50 years the ecology will be quite different."

The difference will be staggering.

[moniss]

8. Remember the Canadian wildfires from last year

and how the states in the upper part of the US were all having smoke alert days because the whole thing in Canada was so immense. I remember walking out my door and the heavy smell of smoke in the air and the sky all hazy. Some of the greatest beauty on the continent. Gone.

[moniss]

9. Here is the map as of 7/23

and that whole big mass of red dots is mainly much of Alberta and much of northern Saskatchewan.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/live/canada-wildfires-2024-the-latest-on-active-wildfire-counts-maps-evacuation-orders-air-quality-and-smoke-alerts-nationwide-173403045.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

[a kennedy]

10. I was there wayyyyyyyyyy back in the early 70's it was absolutely breathtaking......

Sooooooooooooooooo sad.

[DavidDvorkin]

15. Late 60s for me

Camping trip. It was beautiful.

[wanderer54]

31. Free Campground

So in 1973 I stayed in the area for almost a month. There used to be a free campground along the river for persons traveling by train or bicycle or hitch-hiking.

[GoCubsGo]

11. Aw, damn.

That's one of my most favorite places on the planet.

[Emile]

12. That's horrible

[RazorbackExpat]

14. Back in the 80s, Yellowstone was "reduced to ash",

but it bounced back, as will Jasper.

[MissB]

16. well, the news this morning looks even more bleak.

30-60% structures damaged.

[applegrove]

18. .

[senseandsensibility]

17. Camped there as a child back in the 70's

Beautiful.

[moonscape]

19. Oh nooo. Mom and I

spent wonderful days there before she died. Amazing memories.

Heartbreaking!

[Spazito]

20. I'm devastated...

My daughter worked at Maligne Lake until last year and I was able to go up and vist, tour the area and met many of the workers, some of whom lived in Jasper, and am so worried about them right now.

From a CBC article - Video shows widespread destruction caused by wildfire in Jasper

The wildfire, whipped into a firestorm by intense winds, burned with such intensity and speed that plumes of ash and flames shot hundreds of feet into the air.

James Eastham, a Parks Canada wildfire information officer, said firefighters were faced with a wall of flame that proved impossible to contain.

"Fire behaviour was intense," Eastham said in an interview Wednesday.

"Fire crews were witnessing 300- to 400-foot flames in a fully involved, continuous crown fire and a fire spread rate of approximately 15 metres per minute."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/wildfire-that-roared-into-jasper-was-a-wall-of-fast-moving-flame-says-fire-official-1.7274825

[applegrove]

25. Terrifying.

[republianmushroom]

21. So sorry.

[Cha]

26. Ohh..

So Sorry!

[Bayard]

28. I've always wanted to go to that part of Canada

Had been looking at it for possible relocation if by some horrid chance, trump wins this election.

So sorry to hear of this devastation.

[AKwannabe]

30. See 29

Crossed most of western Canada last year and Jasper was my pick.

[AKwannabe]

29. Was there last summer.

Was looking at it as a new home if Trump came back in to power.

I will leave the US if that happens. Super sad Jasper is a loss for all those that call it home and all of us who have been there and seen the majesty it was (not the town but the park).