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….