Wildland Fire Operations
Research Group
Ray Ault
FERIC Western Division
Presentation outline
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Why the fire group exists
Who funds the group
How projects are chosen
How we deliver results
Example of past projects
Need for fire operations
research
Program areas
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Debris management
Community protection
Firefighter safety
Aviation
Linear developments
Equipment design and evaluation
Fire detection
Railroads
Where we work
Funding -Government members
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Alberta Sustainable Resource
Development
Saskatchewan
Government of NWT
BC Forest Protection Branch
Yukon Government
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
Parks Canada
Allied IndustriesLinear development
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Atco Electric
CN Rail
Fortis Alberta
BC Transmission
Allied Industries - Aviation
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Fire-Trol Canada
Astaris Canada
Conair Aviation Ltd.
F. I. Flying Tankers
RBH Pacific
Canadian Aircrane
Allied Industries - General
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Mercedes Textiles
Wildfire Equipment
Syncrude, Suncor, CNRL
Saskatchewan Forest Centre
Vanderwell Contractors (1997)Ltd
Millar Western Forest Products
West Fraser Forest Products
Alberta Pacific Forest Industries Inc.
Vanguard Plastics
Advisory Committee
Peter Bothwell
Canadian Forest Service
Con Dermott
Vanderwell Contractors (1971) Ltd.
Wally Born
Alberta Sustainable Resource
Development
Mark Coolen
Millar Western Forest Products Ltd.
Warren Kehr
West Fraser
Vince Eggleston
Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc.
Don Podlubny
Foothills Model Forest
Brent Schleppe
Alberta Sustainable Resource
Development
Susan Corey
GNWT Forest Management Division
Robin Woodward
Saskatchewan Forest Centre
Daryl Jessop
Saskatchewan Environment
Sources of funding –
Wildland Fire Group
Direct Contract
Allied industry
Provincial
2006 budget $1mil
How projects are chosen
• Projects proposed by advisory
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members
Advisory meets twice yearly
Fall meeting to vote on projects
priorities and set work program
Each funding member has a vote
How we deliver results
Advantage reports
Research and technology
transfer
http://fire.feric.ca
Log Deck Protection Workshop
Wildland Fire Group Personnel
missing Dave Patterson / Sharad Karmacharya
Examples of projects
Aviation
gel drop evaluations
Fire fighter safety
head protection
Fire fighter safety
U of A Mechanical Engineering
Saskatchewan
Community Assessment Project
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Types:
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Linear Developments
Planning
Linear Disturbance
species selection with ARC
Equipment evaluation
all terrain vehicle caused fire
Equipment evaluations
infrared scanning evaluations
Operations
Aerial ignition Device
Technology development
University of Saskatchewan
Smoke detection
Summary
• All projects support fire operations
• Wide range of outside partners.
• Bring people together to apply
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innovations and better methods.
Often our work is not research but
bring together the producer and
user to the benefit of both.