# Canada Wildfires 2023 <p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_Canada_political-geo.png#/media/File:Map_Canada_political-geo.png"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Map_Canada_political-geo.png/1200px-Map_Canada_political-geo.png" alt="Map Canada political-geo.png"></a> </p> ## TL;DR  ## Aggregate ### Twitter Mentions  ### January #### 01-19-2023 Article: [Parks Canada thinning forests around Banff townsite to lower wildfire, mountain pine beetle risk](Parks%20Canada%20thinning%20forests%20around%20Banff%20townsite%20to%20lower%20wildfire,%20mountain%20pine%20beetle%20risk.md) Location: #Banff Key Excerpts: - Parks Canada crews have been hard at work trying to remove the fuel on the forest floor and canopy in Banff National Park. - “What that involves is pruning and thinning the forest, so we can reduce the amount of fuel load in terms of wildfire risk reduction,” said David Tavernini, Fire and Vegetation Specialist with Parks Canada. - It means partnering with local and Indigenous contractors to control beetle activities with targeted, single-tree cutting and burning, as well as whole-tree chipping and harvesting entire areas of affected pine trees as needed. - Parks Canada said the work it is doing now will not only help mitigate wildfire risk, but also strengthen the forests against mountain pine beetle. - Two prescribed burns are also planned for later in 2023. <iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m14!1m12!1m3!1d1294293.3492111852!2d-116.42182180877663!3d51.51945568085511!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!5e1!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1686211231605!5m2!1sen!2sus" width="600" height="450" style="border:0;" allowfullscreen="" loading="lazy" referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade"></iframe> ### February #### 02-01-2023 Article: [Parks Canada uses winter months to design wildfire resilient forest in Banff National Park](Parks%20Canada%20uses%20winter%20months%20to%20design%20wildfire%20resilient%20forest%20in%20Banff%20National%20Park.md) Location: #Banff Key Excerpts: - After a century of wildfire suppression, the forest in Banff National Park has grown into an ideal fuel source for wildfires. The evergreen trees are all an even age, undisturbed by fire, and have become so dense they choked out other species. - It's one of the big drivers behind why Parks Canada says it needs to return fire to the landscape, and strategically take away that fuel. - In his 35-year career, Chief Silvio Adamo has seen the launch of the town's wildfire mitigation program, which started in 2005, but he's also seen wildfire seasons get longer, with more sustained periods of risk. - "We're so vulnerable, and all it takes is a lightning strike or someone that's careless with a cigarette or some illegal campfire that is going on outside our area — and we have a wildfire on our hands," Adamo said. "It can't just be about preparedness. We can be as prepared as we can, but we have to mitigate." #### 02-04-2023 Tweet: > Apply today for the first Women in Fire Training Exchange event in Canada!👩‍🚒 `#WTREXCanada` offers training & mentorship to support & empower women in wildfire careers.🔥 All genders & allies welcome! ⬇⬇⬇ > - Banff Ntnl Park, May 1-12 > - Apply by Feb. 15 Location: Banff National Park <a href="http://archive.today/i32IJ"> <img style="width:600px;height:400px;background-color:white" src="https://archive.is/i32IJ/15e55fba4d0546c88be13f25d67e88eeabbed748/scr.png"><br> Parks Canada on Twitter: &quot;Apply today for the first Women in Fire Tra…<br> archived 6 May 2023 22:34:20 UTC </a> #### 02-05-2023 [Archive](https://archive.is/gfQe3)  ### May #### 05-04-2023 Article: [How a fire went from prescribed burn to out of control in an instant near Banff](How%20a%20fire%20went%20from%20prescribed%20burn%20to%20out%20of%20control%20in%20an%20instant%20near%20Banff.md) Location: #Banff Key Excerpts: - Windier than anticipated conditions are to blame for a prescribed burn near Banff growing out of control on Wednesday evening, causing several evacuations and dense smoke over the Trans-Canada Highway, say Parks Canada officials. - Fire crews began work on a planned burn north of the Banff townsite between Banff Avenue and Highway 1 on Wednesday around 4 p.m. as temperatures soared to the mid-20s, two days before the full ignition was to take place amid forecasted cooler and wetter temperatures Friday. - However, as firefighters were “blacklining” — pre-burning grasses and other potential fuels to outline the controlled burn area — a sudden wind shift caused the blaze to jump to the east side of Banff Avenue, where it grew about three hectares beyond the 300-hectare control area. - Officials deemed the fire out of control on Wednesday evening and multiple areas east of Banff Avenue were evacuated, but it was reclassified as “being held” by 11 p.m. - The prescribed burn — a 300-hectare area to the west of Banff Avenue, south of the Trans-Canada — may be put on hold for the time being; Park said the primary focus now is ensuring the current blaze doesn’t spread. Crews spent the day Thursday working to contain the excursion, and officials were assessing any damaged infrastructure. - “These types of prescribed fires, where we already have resources in place, do reduce the risk of larger wildfires that can impact communities,” said Park. “You can imagine that if we had a wildfire that we were not anticipating and we did not have resources on hand in the numbers that we did, that the result may have been quite a bit different.” - A number of the firefighters working on the prescribed burn Wednesday were part of the Women-in-Fire Training Exchange program currently taking place in Banff. Park said WTREX is a training program for experienced firefighters from across the globe and called the team working the blaze the “cream of the crop.” - Last fall, a prescribed burn in a remote, unpopulated area near the eastern boundary of Banff National Park at Dormer Valley flared out of control and grew to 669 hectares. %%Footer Starts Here%% --- ![[Brain Icon 1.png|center]] <b><font color="#ffffff"> <center>You might not have noticed it… but your brain did.</center> </font></b> --- ### Tags #Timelines #Wildfire #Canada #Banff ### Linked Pages & Footnotes