Article author describes this as "a photograph taken somewhere in a mind-bogglingly huge area of the Northwest Territories' wildfire aftermath." We see a forest destroyed, with sticks of charred trees, and embers on the ground, smoke filling the air.

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   Bread and Circuses (breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 13:49:41 JST Bread and Circuses

   Heartbreak in Canada. 💔

   This is part of a devastatingly sad first-person account from a resident forced to evacuate his home in the Northwest Territories...
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   All the trees have been reduced to charred cores of trunks with occasional twigs like burned matches. They stick up from a vast expanse of blackened ground, heaped with ash, where stubborn embers still creep and smoke still billows up to form a thick cloying miasma. It’s like fog I can profoundly taste even through my N95 mask, and makes my eyes water. It’s like that for as far as the eye can see in every direction.

   After we race through it at highway speeds for more than an hour, it’s still the same everywhere we look. A photograph may capture a glimpse, but can never convey that immensity. It seems to go on forever.

   Finally we reach the town of Enterprise, the gateway to the Northwest Territories, or more precisely, the place where Enterprise used to be. For each of the few still recognizable buildings, nine or ten others have been utterly reduced to ash. The place where Winnie’s stood, the first restaurant north of the Alberta border, is only identifiable by a singed scrap of sign and a concrete footing. You could rebuild the buildings, but the land is just an enormous scar now, and will be for years to come. Some structures remain, but the town is still gone.

   Between the first fire zone and the second, we stopped to wait for a large herd of wild bison, at least thirty of them, to cross the road. That invokes a grief that’s bigger, harder to hold at bay, although my consciousness largely just makes note of it to add to the pile later.

   The impact on local biodiversity, on the wonderful panoply of nature that so endlessly captivates and inspires me, must be truly staggering. No sparrow or raven could retreat to indoor air purifiers under weeks of choking smoke. No lynx or fox is going to get a hotel room offered to them with their fleeing kids. Already vulnerable wildlife populations will be broadly decimated, and the plethora of vehicles that went before us left a surprising amount of roadkill.
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