Course Overview
Fire Ecology and Management focuses on forest land management through an understanding of Fire and Fuel Management planning. The course introduces the precepts and concepts of Fire and Fuel Management planning and exercises the development of management goals, objectives and strategies. The focus of the course is directed at the application of legislated responsibilities of land managers in the management of wildfire and forest fuels. Main areas of study include: Fire Management, Fire Ecology, Fire Behaviour Prediction, Planning and Use of Prescribed Fire, Fire Preparedness and Fuel Management Planning, Smoke Management, Forest and Range Practices Act, Wildfire Act, Wildfire Regulation. Fire simulation may be used to exercise and develop skills in planning, assessment, communications, decision-making, supervision and safety.
- Retired
- This course has been retired and is no longer offered. Find other Flexible Learning courses that may interest you.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Explain basic ecological effects of wild and prescribed fire in land management.
- Assist in the development of fire and fuel management plans.
- Predict fire behaviour using the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System and the Canadian Fire Behaviour Prediction System.
- Assist in the preparation of a burning plan for the application of prescribed fire.
- Explain basic Fire Management responsibility based on the Wildfire Act and Regulation for industry and government agencies.
- Discuss current fire management issues relevant to natural resource management.
Effective as of Winter 2010
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