US Congressmen Call on Canada to Improve Forest Management as States Affected by Wildfire Smoke

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US Congressmen Call on Canada to Improve Forest Management as States Affected by Wildfire Smoke

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Two Republican U.S. Congressmen have written a letter calling on the Canadian government to better manage its forests after wildfire smoke impacted air quality in the U.S. states of Wisconsin and Minnesota.
“We write to you today on behalf of our constituents who have had to deal with suffocating Canadian wildfire smoke filling the air to begin the summer,” begins a July 7 letter from Wisconsin Representative Tom Tiffany and Minnesota Representative Brad Finstad to U.S. Ambassador to Canada Kirsten Hillman.
In the letter, the two House representatives ask how the Canadian government plans to mitigate wildfires and stop the smoke that can drift south. They say that while a “key driver” of wildfires has been a “lack of active forest management” there have also been cases of arson that have sparked large wildfires.
The representatives go on to say that their constituents had been limited in their ability to go outside and due to wildfire smoke from Canada impacting air quality. “Given the significance of this issue, we urge you to relay this message to your government, in particular Natural Resources Canada and the Canadian Forest Service,” they said.
In a post on social media, Tiffany said several other Minnesota and Wisconsin representatives had joined the letter as well.

The Epoch Times reached out to Natural Resources Canada for comment but didn’t hear back by publication time.
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Canada, if you’re an independent country, manage your interior.
 
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