Northeast BC Wildland Fire Training

Project Title: Northeast BC Wildland Fire Training

Recipient: Northeast BC Prescribed Fire Council

Region: Northeast

Project Period: 2025

Awarded Amount: $10,000

Description: This project will aim to train and mentor more than 20 local rights holders, stakeholders, and marginalized peoples in wildland fire with an emphasis on prescribed fire through a two-eyed seeing approach. Prescribed fire is a component of innovative silviculture in BC and Northeast BC Prescribed Fire Council organization is “at the tip of the torch” in putting good fire on the land through a collaborative process with all Treaty 8 and Kaska Nations. This project will address the need and thirst for wildland fire knowledge and implementation in a professional, safe, efficient, and accountable way across many landscapes of BC.