Modeling prescribed burns to serve as regional firebreaks to allow wildfire activity in protected areas

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 256, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1815-1824

  Suffling, Roger ^a   Grant, Anne ^a   Feick, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Fire management; Firebreak; Forest fire model; Ontario; Park; Prescribed burn; Prometheus

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM FIREWALLS; DECISION MAKING; DEFORESTATION; DESIGN; DISASTERS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE HAZARDS; IGNITION; PARKS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RISK ASSESSMENT; VEGETATION;

BOREAL FOREST; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FIREBREAK; FOREST FIRE MODEL; ONTARIO; PRESCRIBED BURN; PROMETHEUS;

FIRES;

BOREAL FOREST; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DESIGN; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECONOMIC IMPACT; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; PRESCRIBED BURNING; PROTECTED AREA; WILDERNESS AREA; WILDFIRE;

CROWNS; ECOLOGY; FOREST FIRES; FOREST MANAGEMENT; ONTARIO; PLANTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; QUETICO PROVINCIAL PARK;

EID: 54249108837     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.06.043     Document Type: Article

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