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The links below are off the Forest Management web site. Forest
Management accepts no responsibility for the validity of their content.
- Canadian Interagency
Forest Fire Center (CIFFC): The Canadian Interagency Forest
Fire Centre (CIFFC) provides operational fire-control services,
as well as management and information services to its Member Agencies.
In addition to coordinating services for all of the provinces
and territories, CIFFC often coordinates the sharing of resources
with the United States and other countries...
- Canadian
National Forest Fire Situation Report: updated every Friday during the fire season, this weekly report looks at forest fire statistics Canada-wide...
- Environment Canada:
Canada's Internet resource for weather and environmental information.
- FireSmart
materials: Partners in Protection is an Alberta-based coalition
of professionals representing national, provincial, and municipal
associations and government agencies responsible for emergency
services, land-use planning, and forest/park management and research...
- FireWise:
This web site contains educational information for people who
live or vacation in fire-prone areas of the United States. It
was designed to acquaint YOU with the challenges of living with
wildland fire...
- MODIS:
MODIS (or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) is a
key instrument aboard the Terra (EOS AM) and Aqua (EOS PM) satellites.
Terra's orbit around the Earth is timed so that it passes from
north to south across the equator in the morning, while Aqua passes
south to north over the equator in the afternoon. Terra MODIS
and Aqua MODIS are viewing the entire Earth's surface every 1
to 2 days, acquiring data in 36 spectral bands, or groups of wavelengths
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- Northwest
Territories Forest Fire Management Policy: The Government
of the Northwest Territories will provide forest fire management
services on forested areas...
- Northwest
Territories Forest Protection Act: This consolidation is
not an official statement of the law. It is an office consolidation
prepared by Legislation Division, Department of Justice, for convenience
only. The authoritative text of statutes can be ascertained from
the Revised Statutes of the Northwest Territories, 1988 and the
Annual Volumes of the Statutes of the Northwest Territories...
- Webair
Canada: The Webair-Canada website is available to the aviation
industry to provide government agencies in Canada a current list
of aircraft available for resource management use, in particular
wildfire suppression. The website is accessible to designated
forest protection agencies in Canada...
- Wildland Fire
Operations Research Group: Established in January 2001,
the Wildland Fire Operations Research Group (WFORG) in Hinton,
Alberta hopes to follow the lead of its parent organization by
providing leadership in fire operational research and technology
development...
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