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Colorado wildfires: Tens of thousands evacuated as blazes spread
Secretary Vilsack Announces New 10 Year Strategy to Confront the Wildfire Crisis
Summer wildfires twice as costly than 2017
The Thompson-Nicola Regional District spent more than $5.2 million – twice as much as in 2017 – dealing with this summer’s wildfires, which wiped out Lytton and Monte Lake and threatened other cities and towns across the region including Ashcroft, Spences Bridge and 70 Mile House.
Okanagan Indian Band planning to expand use of prescribed burns
BC’s 2021 wildfire season underscores the need for more prescribed fire
After two years of below-average fire activity, the BC Wildfire Service was faced with a tremendously challenging 2021 wildfire season, which begs the question, if this is our new normal, how do we adapt? Wildfire season peaked much earlier than usual this year and was one of the driest and most active on record. Unprecedented […]
Spotlight on hazard reduction burning
Australia has been using prescribed fire to help manage wildfires across their landscape. Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO and AFAC have developed an animation to explain what hazard reduction burning is and its role in managing fire.
How Indigenous ‘cultural burns’ can replenish our forests
Introducing the New Cultural Burning and Prescribed Fire Microsite
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the new cultural burning and prescribed fire microsite, bringing education and awareness to how cultural burning and prescribed fire can help maintain the health and safety of our forests, communities and wildlife.