Build and Mobilize Foundational Wildland Fire Knowledge Program

The program will support initiatives that advance knowledge in the following three themes.

Theme 1: Wildfire risk assessment

Priority research topics:

• Developing methods and baseline data for risk assessments at community and regional scales
• Integrating multiple values including air quality, carbon balance, fibre recovery
• Leveraging new technologies to accelerate risk assessments
• Leveraging new technologies, and integration of research into predictive models and decision-making tools

Theme 2: Wildfire risk mitigation

Priority research topics:

• Testing and demonstrating the real-world feasibility, cost and effectiveness of prevention or mitigation strategies or technologies, including new approaches
• Understanding social acceptability of different interventions
• Creating awareness that leads to action by increasing the efficacy of education, outreach, and mobilization strategies
• Estimating the effects of relevant risk-reduction interventions, including return on investment

Theme 3: Adaptive forestry practices

Priority research topics:

• Testing and demonstrating enhanced fibre recovery from fuel management activities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and offset the costs of treatment
• Developing approaches to integrate wildfire risk reduction as an outcome in forest management practices
• Identifying, testing, and demonstrating new forest management practices that minimize impacts of future wildland fires