By Rachael Lesosky, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter With more than a million hectares of BC forests burned by wildfires this year, it might be difficult to see any positives in the situation. But, that’s exactly what Narwhal reporter Matt Simmons and a panel of fire experts did during a webinar on September 10. Fire, they realized, is a tool that can connect us to the land – and to each other. “There’s this whole beautiful story of fire and its interconnectedness with plants and people and animals,” said fire ecologist Kira Hoffman. “We often lose that… and we’re not thinking about the many ways of knowing it, or the many ways that we could understand it.” One of the oldest ways of knowing and understanding fire is cultural burns. Darlene…
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