To be resilient in the face of increasing wildfire risk due to climate change, Yunesit’in First Nation, located 90 km west of Williams Lake, BC, is revitalizing their fire practices. In the winter of 2017, in collaboration with Gathering Voices Society, the community developed a pilot program to revitalize Yunesit’in fire stewardship. This pilot project allowed Yunesit’in fire practices to be used on the Land for the first time in at least two generations. Fire stewardship is viewed by the community as a pathway to revitalizing teachings and Land stewardship practices and restoring the health of the Land. The ambition for the program is to build public awareness of Indigenous fire stewardship and then to catalyze these programs across British Columbia and Canada.
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