ontario Wild Fires

[Ata83]

good or bad for animals and hunting ?

from all I read, wild fires are not very bad for the forest and the environment, they regenerate faster after.

but how does it effect hunting those area ? do animals go back to the area fast ?

[rick_iles]

Older burns are moose magnets !!

[fratri]

New growth is awesome for wildlife but unfortunately many animals will die because of the fire...

[Sam Menard]

I fought fires across northern Ontario for 11 years and learned that the effects of wildfires on wildlife can vary depending on the size, rate of spread, and amount of forest burned. It’s possible for animals to die in a fire, however large fast moving fires are usually in pure conifer forests, slash(cutovers), or blowdown areas. Pure conifer forests don’t normally hold a lot of wildlife. Most of the time, animals can move out of the way of fires or seek shelter in wet areas. The best fires for wildlife are the small to medium sized patchy ones where you have a mixture of burnt and green forests. These fires occur in mixed wood forests. I’ve seen many instances where moose and deer were observed in burnt over areas a few days after a fire had rolled through. It takes a couple of years for trees to emerge and, as Rick mentioned, old burns can attract a lot of moose and deer. Moose tend to gravitate to old burns in the winter and browse the heck out of them. Deer tend to use burned areas in the spring and summer once grass and plants emerge.

[fratri]

Don't do they escape the area ?

Maybe most do, but looks like a lot do not....

https://www.worldwildlife.org/storie...tralia-s-fires

[trimmer21]

Maybe most do, but looks like a lot do not....

https://www.worldwildlife.org/storie...tralia-s-fires

I'd be interested to find out how they arrived at those figures. Remember,WWF is right up there with animal rights zealots like PETA,Animal Alliance,IFAW and their ilk. It's very important to take everything they state with a very large grain of salt and an even more skeptical eye.