About the Seminar Dr. Hoffman will introduce the Fire Stewardship Program and share practical lessons from the team on building a collaborative fire stewardship model in British Columbia. Drawing from on-the-ground experience, the model explores how partnerships across agencies, communities,…

About the Seminar Movers and shakers in natural resources management typically focus on big, top-down drivers of ecological change: climate, wildfires, clearcutting, charismatic megafauna. But complex systems science teaches that we must also pay attention to small things, like seeds,…

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…