Wildland / urban interface fires, fuel management, and ecosystems conference

• Start Date: November 05, 2008
• End Date: November 06, 2008
• City: Cranbrook BC

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Conference description

Management plans for reducing the likelihood or severity of wildland/urban interface (WUI) fires are in preparation and, by their nature, favour economic and social factors. Through one and half days of presentations, a poster session, and field trips, we examined these factors, and addressed how management for WUI fires and fuels might also accommodate, or improve, ecological values.

A helicopter with a drip torch in action (2003) lighting the back burn near St. Cyr Creek, Mount Revelstoke National Park. Rob Buchanan / Parks Canada photo

We are grateful to the following agencies for their financial and in-kind support of this conference:

• BC Ministry of Agriculture and Lands
• BC Ministry of Environment
• BC Ministry of Forests and Range
• Columbia Basin Trust
• Columbia Kootenay Fisheries Renewal Partnership
• Parks Canada