Category: Project
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Mapping local knowledge: TRU students guide fire awareness exhibition
Communities across B.C. are increasingly confronted with the challenges from wildfires, highlighting the pressing need for proactive engagement and education. In response to this need, Thompson Rivers University (TRU) is inviting residents of Kamloops to participate in creating personal maps…
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Onboarding Activities for Student Researchers
Cultural Mapping of the FireSmart Program (May-June, 2025) Ethics To do Tools—finding them, using them Referencing Zotero is a handy, open-source (free) referencing tool that can help us store, annotate, and reference articles, websites, etc. This makes citations and the…
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The Future of Fighting and Preventing Forest Fires
From NPR’s public affairs program 1A, here’s a podcast on Wildfire, Mitigation Strategies, and Cultural Burning—provided here as background to our work on the Fire Smart Cultural Mapping Project. Abstract 80 years ago, Smokey the Bear was mostly talking about…