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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.
Prescribed burns aren’t just for fire protection, Penticton Indian Band councillor says
No, we can’t fireproof towns and cities — but here’s how we can make them more resilient
Experts point to the wildland-urban interface as the area we need to think about
B.C. policy-makers urged to embrace controlled burns to reduce wildfire risk
Fire ecologists and some First Nations say prescribed and cultural burns will help reduce B.C.'s fuel load
B.C. wildfires: Fire experts tout Indigenous cultural burns to reduce risk
‘There was so much burning going on (once) and it resulted in all kinds of different vegetation types … And so that historic landscape was basically vaccinated against large-spread fire’
Warnings, lessons about B.C. wildfires were all in 2018 report, authors say
Wide-ranging review identified reforms needed for a 'new normal' of fires and floods.
Burn rate burdens businesses in B.C.
In B.C., more than 1.2 million hectares burned in 2017 and 1.3 million in 2018. So far this year, 555,904 hectares of forest have been ravaged by fire in the province. The damage included the razing of the entire town of Lytton.
Climate change is forcing B.C. to rethink how it fights wildfires, say experts
Tactics are adapting, but not fast enough as wildfires worsen, they say.