This chapter provides a broad overview of the ecological and social aspects of wildfires, their impacts, and management in Canada. We describe the Canadian fire landscape, including vegetation and fire ecology, with an emphasis on the boreal forest. Wildfire causes and their impacts from past to ...
causing mass evacuations and burning through millions of acres. While the Canada wildfire season runs from May through October, such destruction this early in the season is rare. One month in, Canada is on track to have its most destructive wildfire season in history. Climate change-driven ...
“The impacts of any type of [wildfire] event would affect the rise in particulate matter.” Between June 7 and July 21, Dallas has had only seven days of “good” – or moderate – air quality, with 11 of those days connecting particulate matter such as dust, dirt, soot or smoke as...
conifer forest to moist spruce–fir ecosystems, the latter arising only 4600 years ago, late by comparison to other ESSF sites in the region. Repeated disturbance in the mid Holocene by wildfire coupled with volcanic ash deposition and increased climatic variation resulted in recurringPinus contorta...
"We have known, deployable, cost-effective solutions to mitigate some risk being realized in this country due to flooding, wildfire and extreme heat in particular,” Feltmate told an audience of about 750 Wednesday. “And we are not deploying those solutions quickly enough.”...
This data descriptor documents a dataset containing over 38 years of global reanalysis of wildfire danger. It consists of seven fields to assess fuel moisture as well as fire behavior. The methodology employed to generate these data is based on the Canad
, Alberta, Yukon, Northwest Territories, and western Nunavut. The warming temperatures are set to influence fire weather, which are the weather conditions that determine fire danger. This is a particular concern for western Canada, as wildfire seasons have not on...
We examined the short-term (2 year) responses of boreal forest ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) to the individual and combined effects of wildfire, harvesting, and herbicide. Ground beetle responses to wildfire and forestry-related disturbances differed strongly and suggested that, although some...
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For its simplicity of calculation the FWI danger rating system is adopted by many fire agencies around the world and operationally used to issue fire alerts and allocate resources on the ground. The FWI system is also an important building block of the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS, ...