In Canada, outside of large government organizations such as Parks Canada, prescribed fire is more rarely used. Training and collaboration guide prescribed fires The barriers to more extensive use of prescribed fire in Canada include the lack of trained personnel an...
boreal forests, fire behavior, tail, climate, wildfires, data collection, forest management, ecological zones, forest ecosystems, economics, variance, statistical models, probability distribution, riskLarge fires are a major disturbance in Canadian forests and exert significant effects on both the climate...
Hanna said Canada needs to have a bigger conversation about prevention and managing risk by reducing the vulnerability of infrastructure, and suggests wildfire vulnerability assessments and considerations become "part of everything we do in the permitting and ...
firefighters have battled an intense fire for almost a week. Wildfires are also burning in Arizona and New Mexico.In Canada, the Fort McMurray blazeburned for weeks and scorched some 2,400 square miles of land—more than1.4 million acres. In five of the past 10 years, in fact,wildfires ha...
Alaska, Arizona, California, Montana, Oregon, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Greece, Russia.阿拉斯加，亚利桑那，加利福尼亚，蒙大拿，俄勒冈州，澳大利亚，巴西，加拿大，希腊，俄罗斯。These are just some of the places where in recent years, wildfires have raged out of control.这些只是近年来野火肆虐失控的...
has been the norm in many parts of Canada. The exclusion of fire in certain areas has disrupted the natural fire cycle. Additionally, commercial planting of tree species that are less tolerant for fire such as balsam fir and white spruce has further contributed to ...
Indigenous Peoples, ecologists and conservationists have long recognized the importance of fire within grassland ecosystems, but decades of active suppression have left most of Canada in a fire deficit.
The role of Canada’s fire management strategy in managing fire carbon emissions also deserves some discussion. Fire management strategies require balancing several considerations, including socioeconomic costs, ecological impacts and carbon emissions. Canada’s present strategy adopts a risk-based approach...
"In British Columbia, it's the fire weather. We're seeing more and more extreme fire weather," he said. "More communities are going to be impacted by it and we best be prepared." WATCH: 'Zombie fires': As scary as they sound and an increasing ri...
Warming temperatures mean an increased risk of wildfires, says Gillett, who added that the size of the area burned to date in Newfoundland and Labrador is well above the long-term average. "Across Canada, we can expect or we're seeing it al...