Description
Results and analysis of an experimental burning study on the fire behavior in boreal mixedwood slash in the northern Ontario's Clay Belt Region are presented. Horizontal discontinuity in this fuel type makes fire spread difficult when the fire danger rating is low to moderate. Poor drainage caused by a clay soil parent material disrupts normal duff drying processes. Fire behavior parameters, such as fuel comsumption, rate of spread and frontal fire intensity, and their relationship to the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System, are discussed in detail