Call for EOI for Fire Stewardship Program

The Bulkley Valley Research Centre has received funding for a 3-year fire stewardship program that will support collaborative and proactive fire management with three First Nations partners. The program will support Nation partners to gather information on historical cultural fire practices and in the implementation and training of fire stewardship (one aspect of which is cultural fire).  A major focus of the project will be incorporating multiple sources of knowledge, building capacity to lead fire management, creating new partnerships and mobilizing knowledge to fire and forestry practitioners.

The Centre is requesting expressions of interest from one or more qualified contractors to contribute to data science and/or extension support for the fire stewardship project team for a period of up to three years.

Key areas of work include:

Data science

• Undertake data collection, cleaning, and analysis of past forest management practices and historic fire activity that have interacted with wildfire within the broader study area (Cheslatta Carrier, Gitanyow and Wet’suwet’en Nation territories).
• Work with the project team to build dashboards, shiny apps and/or interactive maps that summarize and communicate the analyses of past forestry practices on fire.
• Support the project team and partners to map locations where fire could be applied on the land base.

Extension

• Supported by other team members, meet with partners to gather and weave Indigenous science and knowledge toward fire applications.
• Develop extension products (decision support systems, extension notes, explainers).
• Write public facing communications and engage in and provide logistical support for community events.

See the full EOI details here. Posting will remain active until all program functions are filled.