What’s clear to Republican legislators is that hazy American skies due to Canadian wildfires are not a fluke of nature.
Instead, as Americans suffer their third year in a row of seeing haze thanks to Canada, the forest practices of America’s northern neighbor need to change, GOP lawmakers say, according to Wisconsin Public Radio.
Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin said technologies exist that “can detect fire very early on” and then aid in suppressing them.
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“I would urge Canada to do that — it’s time,” Tiffany said. “We’re seeing events across Wisconsin being canceled. People are not able to go outside in what’s the most wonderful time of the year.”
Tiffany and Republican Rep. Glenn Grothman sent a letter to Canadian Ambassador Kirsten Hillman
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