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Type: Conference Paper
Author(s): H. W. Gray
Compiler(s): Dennis Quintilio
Publication Date: 1979

From Introduction and Background: During 1976-77, the Slave Lake Forest prepared a Management Issues Report that outlined, in order of priority, all areas requiring integrated resource management planning. The Big Bend area was designated as the priority area for fire danger rating application to integrated land use planning in the Slave Lake Forest (Figure 1). In late 1977 a planning proposal for the Big Bend study area was drafted. The proposal outlined the major problems, concerns, and aims of the planning process; designated the planning group; and identified the lead and data input agencies. The Forest Protection Branch was contacted in the. initial stages to determine possible fire management inputs. As the Big Bend study was the first concentrated effort at formulating an integrated resource management plan, little previous experience existed, especially with regard to fire inputs. Operational constraints and lack of clear guidelines for such an undertaking left the fire control section short of answers on how to approach the subject. In September 1977 the planning section of the Forest Protection Branch became involved in investigating possible inputs. By December 1977 a simple guide was devised to provide the evaluation of potential fire danger represented by the various management options in Big Bend.

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Citation: Gray, H.W. 1979. Fire danger rating application to integrated land use planning. Pages 70-77 in Quintilio, Dennis (Compiler), Proceedings of the International Fire Management Workshop, October 31-November 1, 1978, Edmonton, Alberta. Information Report NOR-X-215. Edmonton, AB, Canada: Canadian Forestry Service, Northern Forestry Centre. 89 p.

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Keywords:
  • brush
  • coniferous forests
  • deciduous forests
  • fire danger rating
  • fire management
  • forest management
  • fuel types
  • grasslands
  • hardwood forest
  • human caused fires
  • land management
  • land use
  • land use planning
  • Picea mariana
  • recreation related fires
Tall Timbers Record Number: 8052Location Status: In-fileCall Number: Fire File DDWAbstract Status: Fair use, Okay, Reproduced by permission
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FRAMES Record Number: 2388

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