This research update from Raphael Chavardes of the University of British Columbia provides an overview of fire history research in Jasper National Park through the Healthy Landscapes program.
The research aims to answer the following questions: What were the frequencies of historic fires? How have these changed over the 20th Century? What were the climate drivers of historic fires at inter-annual to multi-decadal scales? The records obtained post laboratory analysis will provide a baseline to determine the effectiveness and impacts of fire exclusion on forest composition, structure and function.
