Prescribed Burns and FireSmart
"FireSmart" is the answer.
What is the question? What should be every community's take-away from the 1st anniversary of the Slave Lake fire?
Alan Westhaver, Fire and Vegetation Specialist with Parks Canada, describes Parks Canada criteria for prescribed burns during the Canadian Land Reclamation Association's Fall Tour, 2011. The importance of prescribed burns to protect homes and communities in Alberta cannot be underestimated. Alan describes how cottage areas, camp sites and towns in national parks have adopted the FireSmart program to re-establish forests to more natural densities and reduce the risk of intense, fast-moving wildfires.
FireSmart is Alberta's fire risk control program for communities, industry and homeowners.
For the oil and gas industry, there is FireSmart's Guidebook for the Oil and Gas Industry
For individual families, there is FireSmart for HomeOwners
