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The Landscapes in Motion Online Workshop was a great experience for our research team. It was an afternoon marked by great questions and exciting discussion. So much so, we ran out of time to answer several of the great questions posed by the participants! In this post, members of our team have responded to these questions.
Read MoreFire Regime Team Lead Dr. Lori Daniels was recently awarded the 2019 Canadian Forestry Scientific Achievement Award by the Canadian Institute of Forestry. Read on to learn more about her collaborative approach to research, her work with Landscapes in Motion, and her drive to do important work that makes a difference.
Read MoreTwo years and countless hours of field, lab, and computer study by three diverse research teams have added up to new insights on the fire history of Alberta’s Southern Rockies. One of the key findings of the Landscapes in Motion research program to-date is that fire regimes in the Southern Rockies are complex, including low-severity burns and historical influences of fire suppression and Indigenous cultural burning. In this post, project coordinator Dr. David Andison and fire regime team lead Dr. Lori Daniels share what the implications of these findings might be, what questions remain to be answered, and where our work is going next.
Read MoreOne of the main goals of the Landscapes in Motion Fire Regime team is to reconstruct forest fire dynamics of Alberta’s Southern Rockies using evidence from tree ring samples. After two years of field sampling, lab work, and analyzing and interpreting the data, Fire Regime researcher Dr. Cameron Naficy has started to see the fruits of his labour. He and his team have learned that the lodgepole pine forests of Alberta’s Southern Rockies were more resilient to frequent burning and more structurally complex than previously thought. In this post, we share more about Dr. Naficy’s findings and what the implications might be for managing Alberta’s forests.
Read MoreIn both the present and the past, it is clear that humans have had a strong effect on why, where, and how forests burn. Recently, LIM researcher Dr. Cameron Naficy found some clues in the Southwestern Foothills showing that Indigenous cultural burning was likely a stronger influence on this landscape than previously documented in the academic literature. In this post, we share some context for the different ignition sources of Alberta wildfires and present a sneak peek into some of Dr. Naficy’s early findings.
Read MoreWe spent a lot of this summer talking about what our field crews were up to. But what comes next? For the Fire Regime Team, there is more to come as they begin to process the samples they collected this summer.
Read MoreOn Wednesday, September 12, Landscapes in Motion hosted its first-ever field tour. Read on to learn more about what we talked about, saw, and heard over the day.
Read MoreMeet the four intrepid field crew members who will be hiking all over Alberta’s southern Rockies, collecting tree-ring, fire scar, and vegetation structure data under Cameron Naficy’s supervision.
Read MoreHere at Landscapes in Motion, we talk a lot about “looking to the past” to understand how fire regimes have shaped the landscapes of the southern Rockies in Alberta. Cameron Naficy explains how the Fire Regime team collects and interprets historical clues in order to reconstruct the fire regimes of the past - and why it’s important they do so.
Read MoreSeveral years ago, a small-scale study in west-central Alberta helped plant the seeds that eventually grew into Landscapes in Motion. Evidence of mixed-severity fires affecting several stands raised questions about the wildfire story on the larger landscape—questions that Landscapes in Motion will try to answer.
Read MoreThe landscapes of the southern Rockies of Alberta have a long and complex natural and cultural history. Prominent in that history is the role of forest fires. Fire has been, and remains today, a necessary and critical part of the long-term health and sustainability of these landscapes. The goal of this project is to advance our understanding of how, where, and when historical wildfires occur, and the implications of those dynamics.
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