About the Seminar In this presentation, Kevin will draw from the POLIS Wildfire Resilience Project's recent report on beneficial fire (https://poliswildfireproject.org/publications/beneficial-fire/). The objective is to introduce the concept of beneficial fire and to explore how it can enhance wildfire resilience.…

About this Seminar Kathlyn Glacier – the backyard glacier of Smithers, BC – is a cultural touchstone of the Bulkley Valley and an important hydrologic component of Toboggan Creek and the Bulkley River. As a small (2.4km2) mountain glacier, Kathlyn…

About this Presentation This seminar explores how the Wet’suwet’en manage their lands amid tensions between Western government systems and Indigenous ways of knowing. Using a method called counter-mapping, the OW Natural Resources Department developed technical skills in drone operations and…

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION Since about 2013, both the total area burned and the size of individual wildfires have been increasing across sub-boreal spruce ecosystems in the central and northern interior of B.C. Not surprisingly, this has brought greater attention to…

About this Presentation As part of a North Area effort to understand the impacts of climate change to forests and ecosystems in northern BC, several field-based research projects have been initiated over the last two decades by the Ministry of…

About this Presentation Almost half of Canada's wood products originate from clear-cut harvesting in British Columbia. Sustainable forest management choices can offer transformative alternatives that support regional and global climate mitigation goals. One promising approach is the substitution of partial…