Wildland Fire Ecology and Management

3 credits · Undergraduate

This course introduces the ecological processes and management challenges associated with wildland fire. Students explore how fire interacts with weather, fuels, and topography, and examine a range of approaches used to assess and manage fire across different ecosystems. Laboratory sessions provide hands-on opportunities to work with fire-related data and apply basic fire behaviour analysis and fire growth modeling. Prerequisite(s): 54 credit hours