Category: Project

  • Mapping local knowledge: TRU students guide fire awareness exhibition

    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

    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

    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…

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