Category: Seminar Series

Why Do We Model Wildfire? Insights from the Bulkley-Morice TEF
05/27/26 | EventsSeminar SeriesWhat's New

About the Seminar and Open House: This presentation introduces the Bulkley–Morice Time-Based Empirical Fire Model (BuMo TEF), which has been developed to support the Bulkley-Morice Wildfire Resilience Project’s goal of enhancing ecosystem and community wildfire resilience. The TEF model synthesizes…

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Partnerships and the Fire Stewardship Program
03/04/26 | Seminar Series

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,…

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The Secret Life of Seeds
02/17/26 | Seminar Series

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,…

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Beneficial Fire and Enhancing Wildfire Resilience
01/29/26 | Seminar Series

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.…

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Our Backyard Glacier – The Past, Present and Future of Kathlyn Glacier
01/22/26 | Seminar Series

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…

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Building Technological Capacity in Indigenous Natural Resource Governance
06/12/25 | Seminar Series

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…

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