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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Gray, MacKenzie
The dry interior Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) forests of British Columbia and the western United States have undergone significant changes in structure and species composition since the pre-settlement era. Studies of historic stand structure…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Parisien, Sirois, Babeau
The study of a species at its range limits allows the factors associated with its presence on the landscape to be determined. This study examines the distribution and dynamics of jack pine (Pinus banksiana), a fire-adapted boreal tree species, in…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Englefield, Lee, Fraser, Landry, Hall, Lynham, Cihlar, Li, Jin, Ahern
The Fire Monitoring, Mapping and Modelling System (Fire M3) is an initiative of the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS) and the Canadian Forest Service (CFS), both agencies of Natural Resources Canada. The goals of Fire M3 are to use low-…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Kafka, Parisien, Hirsch, Flannigan, Todd
Climate change could increase fire weather severity in the western portion of Canada's boreal forest. In this study, we evaluate how climate change could affect future landscape-level fire behavior potential. The study area extends over 135,000 km2…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Bosch, Mason, Todd, Stocks
Since the last Ice Age, fire has been a dominant disturbance regime vital to the preservation of species biodiversity in Canadian forests. A Large Fire Database (LFDB) has been developed for all fires larger than 200 ha in area for Canada for the…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Kalkhan, Martinson, Omi, Stohlgren, Chong, Hunter
Investigating spatial relationships among fuels, wildfire severity, and post-fire invasion by exotic plant species through linkage of multiphase sampling design and multiscale nested sampling field plots, pre- and post-fire, can be accomplished by…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Blackwell, Gray, Steele, Needoba, Green, MacKenzie
In 2000 the Squamish Forest District began a pilot project to study the effects of prescribed fire on forest succession, fuel dynamics, regeneration, wildlife habitat, and timber supply within two landscape units encompassing 103,000 ha north of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Omi, Martinson, Kalkhan, Chong, Hunter, Stohlgren
The severity of the 2000 fire season has increased public awareness of a widespread fuels problem in western U.S. forests. Federal land management agencies have responded with plans to greatly expand programs to mitigate hazardous fuel conditions.…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Francis, Conly
Lignum Ltd. holds a 610,000-ha Innovative Forest Practices Agreement (IFPA) within the Cariboo-Chilcotin region of central British Columbia. The Lignum IFPA is ecologically diverse, with the majority of the IFPA comprising variants of the Sub-Boreal…
Year: 2004
Type: Document