By\u00a0 Rachael Lesosky, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter\u00a0 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\u2019s 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 \u2013 and to each other. \u201cThere\u2019s this whole beautiful story of fire and its interconnectedness with plants and people and animals,\u201d said fire ecologist Kira Hoffman. \u201cWe often lose that\u2026 and we\u2019re not thinking about the many ways of knowing it, or the many ways that we could understand it.\u201d One of the oldest ways of knowing and understanding fire is cultural burns. Darlene… <\/p>\n
By\u00a0 Rachael Lesosky, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter\u00a0 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\u2019s 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 \u2013 and to each other. \u201cThere\u2019s this whole beautiful story of fire and its interconnectedness with plants and people and animals,\u201d said fire ecologist Kira Hoffman. \u201cWe often lose that\u2026 and we\u2019re not thinking about the many ways of knowing it, or the many ways that we could understand it.\u201d One of the oldest ways of knowing and understanding fire is cultural burns. Darlene... <\/p>\n