Informative Essay: Wildfires In Canada

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The issue with wildfires, especially in Canada, is something unfortunately most of us are familiar with. It impacts us throughout the country, even if our forests aren’t the ones being burned down. For example, already this year we have had a couple days where smoke from a wildfire in British Columbia was carried by the wind all the way to Edmonton. Of course, this makes our air quality quite poor. It is important that we try to help minimize this issue as much as possible, but with something like this, it is difficult for ordinary people to do much. But, luckily sometimes, these wildfires can be beneficial as well, especially to wildlife. As stated in the article, these wildfires can help regenerate our forest by burning old trees down and …show more content…

Sometimes, during the summer I play on an outdoor soccer team and as expected during certain extreme weather conditions games may be canceled. However, last year many of our games were canceled because of the poor air quality. This air quality was the result of the many forest fires happening in other parts of Canada. Even though some of the wildfires weren’t even happening in Alberta, the wind could still carry smoke from these places all the way here. Since the season was coming to an end and everything had to be wrapped up, unfortunately most of our games couldn’t even be rescheduled. This was quite upsetting to me and many of the other players for two reasons. One, because obviously we didn’t get to play many of our games, and two, because we weren’t given any type of refund for all of our canceled games. Other than soccer, this issue also affected some of my other plans, as well. For example, many of our family picnics with our friends also had to be canceled or rescheduled because of the air quality. This year specifically, one of our friends from Calgary came to visit us and instead of going out for a picnic and enjoying some fresh air outside, we had to stay inside because of the air

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