Northern B.C. First Nation looking to create culturally informed emergency documents

 By Tom Summer Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Saulteau First Nations is applying for the Wawanesa Community Wildfire Prevention Grant, to create culturally informed emergency documents, to be used in combination with their cultural burning project, which aims to revitalize community knowledge around wildfire management. The First Nation has requested a letter of support from the Peace River Regional District to aid their grant application, which the PRRD board voted in favour of issuing at their Jan. 11 meeting. “The objective of this project is to help educate the SFN community about relative emergency threats and steps to prepare for, mitigate, and as necessary respond to those events,” wrote Saulteau First Nations to the PRRD. The project will focus on FireSmart principles, and the Sendai Framework principle that aims for an…

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