Moderator: Kyle Broome, RPF, Wildfire Division Manager and Director of Meaningfulness, Cabin Resource Management Ltd.

Wildfires will continue to be a part of BC’s landscape and large-scale mitigation efforts are needed. Mechanical treatments are costly and tough to scale. The use of controlled burning at the landscape-level is one way to protect communities, cultural values, and resource values. However, regulatory challenges combined with training and practice issues make the reintroduction difficult. If Forest Professionals alongside fire practitioners can (re)harness the power of controlled burning and implement it at scale, prevention efforts could be more successful.

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Following the presentation, attendees will have learned the following:

1. History of use of fire — both Indigenous and non-Indigenous.
2. Regulatory changes need to occur to allow for the increased use of controlled burning.
3. A perspective to burning on land.
4. How to safely plan and implement a controlled burn.
   1. What is required to do a controlled burn?
   2. Who is involved? Examples: with the plan, prescription, burn operations.