By Sonal Gupta, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Canada’s National Observer As wildfires burn through BC forests, a First Nation is demonstrating what can be done with any damaged or leftover wood by turning it into biodegradable packaging and building insulation. Reg Ogen, a Wet’suwet’en leader who has been hearing helicopters over his Penticton home as crews fight a major wildfire near Summerland, said this latest disaster points to a larger supply of damaged wood across BC that could be put to use. The idea first came from Wet’suwet’en Elders who questioned why forestry companies left wood waste behind after logging, said Ogen, president and CEO of Yinka Dene Economic Development Limited Partnership, the business arm of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation. “Our elders saw big piles of brush being burned in…
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