Summary:

- The University of British Columbia (UBC) Forestry has been awarded a $790,000 (US) grant to study the practice of cultural burning, which is an Indigenous land management technique.
- The research will focus on understanding the ecological, social, and cultural impacts of cultural burning, and how it can be used to mitigate the risks of wildfires and support biodiversity.
- The project aims to collaborate with Indigenous communities to document their traditional knowledge and practices related to cultural burning, and to explore ways to integrate this knowledge into modern land management strategies.