'Fire intensity' presentation slideshows

Wildfire Management Branch

Wildfire Management Branch. Orientation Information for Incoming Fire Behaviour Specialists. Welcome to BC. The total land area is 93 million hectares. Forests predominate, covering over 55% of the area. Extensive grasslands, wetlands and alpine areas make up the remainder.

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Implications of climate change on fire and thinning prescriptions

Implications of climate change on fire and thinning prescriptions. Jessica Halofsky 1, 2 Morris Johnson 2 1 University of Washington, School of Forest Resources 2 U. S. Forest Service, Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory, Seattle, WA. Climate controls ecosystem processes.

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The Wildland/Urban Interface

The Wildland/Urban Interface. Part C: The Citizen Wildland Fire Preparedness & Basic Concepts. (Rev. 12/1/04). Objectives. Students will learn: The factors that influence fire behavior The relationship between fire, fuels and structure survivability

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B.C. Wildfire Service

B.C. Wildfire Service. 10 year fire averages: 1 847 fires 115 464 ha 39% Human caused, 61% lightning caused The fire season in BC is generally considered to be from April through October. However, in the dry southern parts of the province the season may stretch from March into November. Fire.

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Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Fire Regimes

Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Fire Regimes. B. Amiro, E. Bosch, M. Flannigan, K. Hirsch, V. Kafka, K. Logan, D. Martell, J. Mason, M. Parisien, W. Skinner, B. Stocks, B. Todd, M. Wotton

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Centre for Non-Timber Resources Royal Roads University Victoria, BC Tom.hobby@royalroads

Cost Benefit Analysis of Wildland Urban Interface Operations in the Southern Interior of British Columbia Tom Hobby Research Associate. Centre for Non-Timber Resources Royal Roads University Victoria, BC Tom.hobby@royalroads.ca. Outline. Introduction

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Determining the Granularity and Randomness of Burned Areas from Prescribed and Natural Fires

Determining the Granularity and Randomness of Burned Areas from Prescribed and Natural Fires. Robert Kremens 1 , Anthony Bova 2 , Matthew Dickenson 2 , Jason Faulring 1 , Colin Hardy 3 , Anthony Vodacek 1 1 Rochester Institute of Technology 2 USDA Forest Service Northeast Research Station

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Mapping Heat Production from Wildland Fires using Time-Sequenced Airborne Imaging

Mapping Heat Production from Wildland Fires using Time-Sequenced Airborne Imaging. Robert Kremens 1 , Anthony Bova 2 , Matthew Dickenson 2 , Jason Faulring 1 , S. McNamara 1 1 Rochester Institute of Technology 2 USDA Forest Service Northeast Research Station. ABSTRACT.

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Global Observation of Forest Cover (GOFC): Fire

Global Observation of Forest Cover (GOFC): Fire . S. E. Asia Fire Cal/Val Workshop January 22-24, 2002 Phuket, Thailand A special session of the APAN Earth Monitoring Working Group. Background to GOFC.

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FIRE MONITORING: Towards Fire Damage Assessment

FIRE MONITORING: Towards Fire Damage Assessment. Opha Pauline Dube, John Isaac Molefe and Sesafeleng Mosotho Department of Environmental Science, University of Botswana,. African Monitoring of the Environment for Sustainable Development. Fire Detection.

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Fire Information and WRAs

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Simulating global fire regimes & biomass burning with vegetation-fire models

Simulating global fire regimes & biomass burning with vegetation-fire models. Kirsten Thonicke 1 , Allan Spessa 2 & I. Colin Prentice 1 1 2. to estimate global fire emissions: Wildfire emission models

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Fire Weather Science Fire Weather System Project EcoConnect -Fire Implementation, June 2013

Fire Weather Science Fire Weather System Project EcoConnect -Fire Implementation, June 2013. April 2011. NZ Fire Danger Rating System. NZFDRS derived from Canadian equivalent, the CFFDRS outputs used to assist decision-making across 4 Rs of fire management.

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Wildfire September 29, 2009

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NC Division of Forest Resources: Wildfire Activity and Outlook for Winter / Spring 2011

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