Fire Management Services

• Strategic Risk Assessment:
  • Wildfire Risk Management System
  • Condition Class Analysis
  • B.C. Provincial Fire Risk Assessment
• Fire Management Planning:
  • Fire Hazard Assessment
  • Fuel Management
  • Fire History
  • Fire Ecology
  • Pre-organization planning
• Community Protection Planning
  • Landscape Scale Fire Planning
  • FireSmart Structure Protection
• Expert Legal Opinion
  • On Fire Management Issues
  • On Fire Behaviour
  • On Fire Effects
• Prescribed Burn Planning
• Policy

Recent Work

• Assisted the Firestorm 2003 Provincial Review Team with development of forest management and policy recommendations (Filmon Commission 2003)
• Community Fire Protection Planning (Resort Municipality of Whistler, 2004-2005)
• Wildfire risk management system (BC Transmission Corporation Rights-of-Way, 2004)
• Fuel Management Handbook (BC Transmission Corporation, 2004)
• Wildfire risk assessment of 158 Provincial Parks & Protected Areas in the Southern Interior using condition class and historic natural fire regime (Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection, 2004)
• Prescribed fire plan for Mount Robson Provincial Park (Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection, 2004)
• Fire hazard assessment of Pacific Spirit Park (Greater Vancouver Regional District, 2004)
• Jasper Municpal Wildfire ProtectionPplanning in Jasper National Park (Parks Canada, 2004)
• Developed and Delivered a Fire Ecology course to Alberta Sustainable Resource Management staff (Hinton Training Center 2003)
• Wildfire risk management system (Greater Vancouver Watersheds, 2003)
• Wildfire threat rating system (Sunpine Forest Products, 2003)
• Detailed wildfire threat rating system for the Valemount – Tete Jaune Corridor (University of Northern BC, 2003)
• FireSmart Pilot Project – Greater Vancouver Regional District 2004-2005
• FireSmart assessments of proposed developments in the District of Highlands (J.E. Anderson & Associates, 2003)
• Fuelbreak plan for E.C. Manning Provincial Park (BC Parks, 2002)
• Wildfire threat rating system for Birkenhead & Gates Landscape Units (Squamish Forest District, 2001)
• Fire management plan for Churn Creek Protected Area (BC Parks, 2001)
• Fire management plan for E.C. Manning Provincial Park (BC Parks, 2001)
• Fire management plan for Mount Robson Provincial Park (BC Parks, 2000)
• Fire management plan for Carp Lake Provincial Park (BC Parks, 2000)
• Wildfire threat rating system for E.C. Manning Provincial Park (BC Parks, 2000)
• Fire hazard assessment of proposed development in Barriere (McElhanney, 2000)
• Development of Historic Natural Fire Regieme and Condition Class Analysis for British Columbia (Ministry of Forests, Canadian Forestry Service)