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Fuel for Thought: How Fuel Treatments Tame the Flames

Dr. Lori Daniels and her students at UBC measured and monitored various parameters in the Whistler Valley in September 2024 to determine how wildfire risk reduction treatment (fuel thinning) affects forest and fire behaviour.

This informative poster details their findings and shows how the treatment of various forest types reduces the risk of a crown fire.

The findings are that “thinning treatments transform young dense forests to resemble mature forests and shift predicted fire behaviour from active crown fire to surface fire. These proactive fuel treatments reduce the chance of crown fire by half, increasing forest resilience in the wildland-urban interface of Whistler.”