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.
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 […]
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.