Research

Research in this area focuses on:

• studying the fire environment, fire behavior, fire ecology, and fire as a natural disturbance;
• developing information and decisionsupport systems for monitoring and predicting wildland fire activity and for enhancing fire management efficiency and effectiveness; and
• investigating the relationship between projected climate change and wildland fire in the boreal forest.

National

• Forest Health in Canada
• Canadian Wildland Fire Information System (CWFIS)
• Forest Fire - Context for the Canadian Forest Service Science Program

Pacific Forestry Centre

• British Columbia Natural Disturbance Database
• Effects of Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreaks on Lodgepole Pine Stand and Woody Debris Dynamics

Northern Forestry Centre

• Forest Fire in Canada
• Frequently Asked Questions About Lightning
• Impacts of Fire and Harvesting on Soils and Site Productivity
• CWFIS - Canadian Wildland Fire Information System
• Southeast Asia Fire Danger Rating System
• Indonesian Fire Danger Rating System
• FireSmart: Protecting Your Community From Wildfire
• Prometheus - Fire Growth Model - Canadian Wildland Fire Growth Model
• EMEND (Ecosystem Management Emulating Natural Disturbance)

Great Lakes Forestry Centre

• Forest Fire Research
• Fire History and Landscape Level Forest Dynamics in the Northern Ontario/Quebec Claybelt (Frontline Bulletin #22)

Laurentian Forestry Centre

• Comparative study of black spruce stands originating after harvest or after fire
• Forest fires: A 235-year history
• Forest management: Learning from natural disturbances
• Post-fire evolution of the boreal forest
• Sustainable forest management: Learning from fire regimes
• The resilience of the boreal forest