Yellowknife Community Wildfire Protection Plan
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| Field | Value |
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| Creator | GNWT - Environment and Climate Change, Forest Management Division |
| Summary | The City of Yellowknife is a wildland/urban interface community. The term “wildland/urban interface” is used to define areas where combustible wildland fuels are found adjacent to human development and wildfires have the potential to interact with that development (PIP, 2003). The Yellowknife Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) (Walkinshaw, 2012) was developed based on current FireSmart best practices. The Plan evaluated wildfire hazard and risk and provided recommendations to reduce the wildfire threat to wildland/urban interface development based on the seven disciplines of wildland/urban interface. 1. Vegetation Management 2. Development 3. Legislation 4. Public Education and Engagement 5. Inter-Agency Cooperation 6. Cross-Training 7. Emergency Planning The City of Yellowknife and GNWT Environment and Natural Resources, Forest Management Division (ENR) have implemented some of the CWPP recommendations and have identified the need to update the CWPP based on current FireSmart best practices to: -Update the wildfire hazard assessment; -Review FireSmart mitigation accomplishments, and; -Set new FireSmart implementation priorities for the next five-year period. This CWPP review: -Evaluates the progress of recommendation accomplishments from the 2012 plan; -Updates the wildfire hazard assessment based on the new FireSmart Wildfire Exposure Assessment Tool (FireSmart Canada, 2018), and; -Provides updated recommendations for each of the seven-disciplines of wildland/urban interface. While implementation of FireSmart mitigative options will reduce the threat of wildfire to structures, it will never remove the threat. This plan should be reviewed and updated at approximately five-year intervals or earlier, based on progress, to ensure it is based on current conditions. |
| Local Relevance | This Community Wildfire Protection Plan is meant to reduce the risk of fire in the community of Yellowknife, NWT. |
| Notes | |
| Tags | Yellowknife,Wildfire,Communities,FireSmart,Vegetation,Infrastructure |
| Geographic Region | North Slave |
| Release Date | 2012-01-01 |
| Last Modified Date | 2018-01-01 |
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