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Fall 2011
This research used a qualitative community-based case study to examine characteristics of Peavine Métis Settlement that have encouraged residents’ support of wildfire mitigation by the settlement. The specific objectives were to: (1) Identify wildfire risk perceptions at Peavine Métis Settlement,...
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Wildfire effects on net precipitation, streamflow regime and rainfall-runoff events in northern Rocky Mountain watersheds
DownloadFall 2022
In recent decades, severe wildfire in western North America has increased in frequency as a result of a warming climate and historical fire suppression, impacting an increasing amount of forested area. Reduced forest canopy interception and storage combined with soil water repellency and altered...
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What does a detection mean? Spatial and behavioural context improves the use of passive acoustic monitoring for the conservation of a wide-ranging bird
DownloadFall 2021
The culture of ecology is shifting towards collaborative, integrative approaches that use ‘big data’ to solve big problems. Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) has the potential to play a role in this new paradigm because it uses in-situ autonomous recording units (ARUs) to collect a permanent...
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Spring 2021
Post-fire rangeland management is typically a period of rest on the Great Plains of North America, but recent research has questioned if long periods of rest are necessary. This study was designed to test different intervals of post-fire rest from defoliation during the first growing season after...
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Fall 2020
Fire and insect outbreaks are the two leading natural disturbance factors affecting Canadian forests. Over the last 20 years Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonous ponderosae Hopkins) has killed more than 50 percent of western Canada’s merchantable lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) forests and spread...
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Spring 2024
Fire weather indices are used by fire management agencies around the world to estimate potential wildfire danger. This allows for resources to be allocated effectively and to warn communities of potential wildfire hazards. Currently, monitoring and short-term forecasting of fire weather depends...
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Predicting Fuel Characteristics of Black Spruce Stands Using Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) in the Province of Alberta, Canada
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Maps that describe the characteristics of live and dead biomass across large areas (i.e., fuel maps) are a critical input to a wide range of research models and decision support systems that aim to describe potential fire behaviour and inform fire management actions. As remote sensing...
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Pre-Disaster Identification of Evacuation Destinations to Support Provincial-Level Emergency Management Planning
DownloadSpring 2023
The unpredictability of natural events like wildfires and earthquakes, and how they impact human settlements, often results in short- and no-notice evacuations, and can sometimes lead to evacuees being displaced for weeks if not months (and sometimes, years). One key issue of concern is where...
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Spring 2022
In the boreal biome of North America, large wildfires usually leave behind residual patches of unburned vegetation, termed refugia, which can strongly affect post-fire ecosystem processes. While topographic complexity is a major driver of fire refugia in mountainous terrain, refugia and fire...
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Hydrological impacts of wildfire and climate change on sediment and organic carbon loads at the watershed scale
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Climate change, extreme weather events, and disturbances such as wildfires alter hydrology, which in turn influences the cycling of water quality constituents such as sediments and nutrients. Organic carbon (OC) is an important element affecting water quality, as it can transport heavy metals,...