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Today is the last day of Wildland Fire Canada 2019. We hope you enjoyed meeting with our community of experts. Please complete our general feedback survey. Your input counts. Vendors please complete the vendor survey. Remember to keep reaching for Read More ...

While attending Wildland Fire Canada 2019, share your experience on social media. It’s your participation in the conference that makes this a great event.  Use the #WildlandFire2019 tag and share your posts with us on:  Facebook: @wildlandfirecanada  Twitter: @wildlandfirecan   We’d Read More ...

Welcome! The Wildland Fire Canada 2019 conference starts next week.  Join us November 18 – 21 at the Delta Ottawa City Centre, 101 Lyon St N, Ottawa, ON Canada. For more information about the conference location or reserving accommodations, visit our Read More ...

Date: Tuesday, November 19th from 4:00 to 5:00 pm CIFFC Fire Science           Maria’s fire career began in 2007 as a Wildfire Information Officer with the Province of Alberta for an aggressive prescribed fire program in a Read More ...

Date: Tuesday, November 19     Time: 3:00 to 4:00 pm Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre Panelist [trx_promo align=”left” size=”large” image=”http://ales-cms.ales.ualberta.ca/wildfirecanada2019/wp-content/uploads/sites/118/2019/10/Kim-Connors-Photo.jpg” image_position=”left” image_width=”30%” text_align=”left” scheme=”original_copy” title=”Kim Connors” description=”Kim Connors is the current Executive Director of the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Read More ...

Date: Thursday, November, 21    Time: 9:20 – 10:20 am In this panel, share experiences, best practices, and solutions for developing and managing diverse, healthy and stable workforces across the Canadian Wildland Fire community. Panelists will explore: the results of Read More ...

Want to attend a technical workshop on FireSmart Exposure Assessment? Take the time while attending our conference to sign up for this hands-on session. Date: 14:00 to 17:00, Monday, November 18, 2019 Instructors: Jen Beverly (University of Alberta) Elizabeth Chapman Read More ...

Does predicting fire behaviour in conifer forests interest you? While at our conference, attend the Predicting fire behaviour in modified conifer fuels with the Conifer Pyrometrics system affiliated workshop. Date:   2 pm – 5 pm, Monday Nov 18, 2019 Workshop lead: Dan Read More ...

How do you manage wildfire investigations? Register for our conference and sign up for the Wildfire Investigation Major Case Management affiliated workshop. Date: This workshop has been cancelled. Unfortunately, the presenters are unable to travel to the conference. This extended presentation Read More ...

Rapid-Burned Area Mapping (R-BAM) : satellite technology for supporting wildfire response and recovery efforts workshop. This workshop has been canceled. If you would like to know more about R-BAM, do not hesitate to contact Jean-Simon Michaud (jsmichaud@hatfieldgroup.com) at Hatfield Consultants. Read More ...

The Blueprint for Wildland Fire Science in Canada: Building national research capacity workshop. Interested in the Blueprint for Wildland Fire Science in Canada for 2019 to 2029? If you attend our conference, you can sign up for an affiliated workshop Read More ...

Did you know that in 2017 the Government of Canada officially designated the second Sunday in September as the Firefighter’s National Memorial Day? Help us honour those who lost their lives in the line of duty on Sunday, September 8th, Read More ...

Tony is Anneke’s dad and Lisa’s husband, and lives in Smithers, BC. Tony joined the BC public service in 2007, where he has worked as a land use planner, negotiator, and regional director responsible for the provincial fish and wildlife, Read More ...

We have a new registration number for Wildland Fire Canada 2019. Please call 1-888-444-0324 to register toll free between 8:30 am and 4:30 pm EDT (UTC -4:00). An agent will take your call and help you get registered.  If outside Read More ...

At Wildland Fire Canada 2019, you’ll meet some great companies and organizations who’ve registered as vendors. Take a moment to read about who our vendors are at the bottom of our Vendors page. Are you interested in hosting a booth? Read More ...

Wildland Fire Canada 2019 welcomes workshops and other affiliated meetings running during our conference dates. Please review the FireSmart Exposure Assessment technical workshop on Monday, November 18, 2019 from 2 to 5pm. Check our web site for updated information and Read More ...

We welcome David Flood, RPF, to our Wildland Fire Canada 2019 conference. A member of Matachewan First Nation, David has a combined forestry degree and technologist diploma. Using these skills, he provides operational forestry services and delivers support for: forest Read More ...

Wildland Fire Canada 2019 is please to introduce our conference sponsors. We appreciate the support and contribution our sponsors have provided in offering this year’s conference. Please browse our sponsors page for updated information on these great organizations: https://wildlandfire2019.ca/sponsors/ Interested Read More ...

Still preparing your abstracts? Wildland Fire Canada 2019 has extended the submissions deadline. You now have until August 1 to submit abstracts for: Paper contributions (presentations) Micro talks Poster proposals For more information, visit us at: https://wildlandfire2019.ca/submissions/ Remember to register Read More ...

Wildland Fire Canada 2019 welcomes Armel Castellan who is a Warning Preparedness Meteorologist at Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) located in Victoria, BC. Armel Castellan’s career is focused on: customized weather and climate information for Read More ...

As a pioneer woman in fire management in the U.S. Forest Service, and first woman smokejumper in the United States, Wildland Fire Canada 2019 welcomes Deanne Shulman. In 1974, Deanne was hired by the U.S. Forest Service. She worked seasonally Read More ...

Wildland Fire Canada 2019 welcomes Dr. Timothy Brown as a keynote speaker at our conference. Dr. Brown is Director of the Western Regional Climate Center and the Program for Climate, Ecosystem and Fire Applications at the Desert Research Institute (DRI) Read More ...

Interested in participating at our Wildland Fire Canada 2019 conference? Paper (presentation), micro talk, and poster abstracts must be submitted by June 30th. Submissions should be aligned with at least one of the five theme topics: Collaborative strategies and shared Read More ...

Wildland Fire Canada 2019 welcomes Dr. George Abbott as one of our featured speakers at the upcoming conference. In 2017, Dr. Abbott co-chaired British Columbia’s fire and flood review with Chief Maureen Chapman. Their report, completed and released in May 2018, Read More ...

Are you a company or organization specializing in wildland fire? Would you like to showcase your products and services to the Canadian wildland fire community? If so, we invite you to consider hosting a vendor booth at Wildland Fire Canada Read More ...

Beginning Wednesday, May 1, you can register to attend the Wildland Fire Canada 2019 conference. How to Register Please follow the steps outlined on our Registration page. Remember to have your credit card information ready before you call.  Our Ontario Read More ...

Deadline extension for special sessions and workshops! Still pulling together your proposal?  Special session and workshop submissions deadlines have been extended until April 30th for proposals. Submissions should be aligned with at least one of the five theme topics: Collaborative Read More ...

Interested in smoke? The National Wildland Fire Smoke forum is now a new theme at our conference Wildland Fire Canada 2019. This year, we partnered with the smoke forum combining our two great events. Wildland Fire Smoke is now our Read More ...

Registration will be opening soon for the Wildland Fire Canada 2019 conference in Ottawa, Ontario. In preparation, we are pleased to announce the registration fee structure and cutoff dates. To begin, we encourage conference attendees to take advantage of our Read More ...

Call for submissions! It’s your participation that will make Wildland Fire Canada 2019 a great conference. We invite your submissions to present your work or lead a special session or workshop at our event. Submissions should align with at least Read More ...