(Feb 21) Ecosystem Restoration with Wildfire: Webinar
This is the first webinar as part of a new Wildfire and Climate Change Winter/Spring 2019 Webinar Series.
When: February 21 9am-10am PST
Speaker: Al Neal, Senior Ecosystem Restoration Specialist, Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development.
Al will share his many decades of experience in planning and implementing ecosystem restoration in interior forests, highlighting the use of prescribed fire. He will describe the evolution of these practices, emphasizing lesson learned.
These webinars expand on the learnings from the 2018 Kootenay Wildfire and Climate Change conference. The topics include landscape and community scale wildfire risk reduction and climate change, and the examples span the province. Anyone interested in wildfire risk reduction in BC will benefit from these webinars – natural resource and wildfire managers and practitioners; local government staff and elected officials; and keen community members.
Sponsors:
• BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development
• BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy
• Natural Resources Canada
• Association of BC Forest Professionals
