GFMC AND THE INTERNATIONAL BOREAL FOREST RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (IBFRA)
Wildland Fire Working Group
The International Boreal Forest Research Association (IBFRA) was founded in 1991 after a meeting of the International Panel on Boreal Forests and the International Symposium “Boreal Forests: State, Dynamics and Anthropogenic Influences“ in Archangelsk, Russia, in 1990:
- The White Sea Declaration (Arkhangelsk, USSR, July 1990) (PDF)
The Wildland Fire Working Group – originally called “Stand Replacement Fire Working Group” – was one of the first working groups created under the IBFRA, and to date, it has been the most active. Following an organizational meeting in Siberia in 1992, the Wildland Fire Working Group has strongly promoted and facilitated cooperative international and multi-disciplinary boreal forest fire research between Russia and western boreal countries of Europe and North America (Fosberg 1992, Stocks et al. 1996a).
A number of collaborative studies dealing with global and regional climate change / fire issues, remote sensing, fire behavior, fire danger rating, fire history and fire ecology and effects have been conducted:
- Initiation of the field campaign Fire Research Campaign Asia-North (FIRESCAN) by the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) and the Sukachev Institute for Forest in Central Siberia in 1993, with the participation of all boreal nations
- Results of the Conference “Fire in Ecosystems of Boreal Eurasia” and the associated Bor Forest Island Fire Experiment
- International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment in Ft. Providence, Northwest Territories, Canada, which began in 1997-98 with a cooperative involvement of European and Russian scientists
- Russian FIRE BEAR (Fire Effects in the Boreal Eurasia Region) Project initiated in Krasnoyarsk region in 1998 (ongoing, with Canadian and US participation)
The IBFRA Wildland Fire Working Group has developed close ties with the
- FROSTFIRE experiment, conducted in the State of Alaska (USA)
2008 IBFRA Wildland Fire Working Group Meeting
- 14th Conference of the International Boreal Forest Research Association (22-27 September 2008, Harbin, China)
The IBFRA Wildland Fire Working Group is a cosponsor of:
Interim results of the 200-years Bor Forest Island Fire Experiment (duration: 1993 to 2192)
- Goldammer, J.G. (ed.) 2013. Prescribed Burning in Russia and Neighbouring Temperate-Boreal Eurasia. A publication of the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC). Kessel Publishing House, 326 p. (ISBN 978-3-941300-71-2).
