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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…

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  • Re-situating participatory cultural mapping as community-centred work

    Re-situating participatory cultural mapping as community-centred work

    The Research Group is pleased to make available a typescript of a recent book chapter on cultural mapping: “Re-situating participatory cultural mapping as community-centered work,”…

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  • Livingmaps Review Issue 17

    Livingmaps Review Issue 17

    The latest issue of Livingmaps Review is now available online! It takes a look at “deep mapping ” practices that have become popular in the…

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  • Map the System Research Competition: Undergraduate TRU Students Mapping Kamloops’ Toxic Drug Poisoning Crisis 

    Map the System Research Competition: Undergraduate TRU Students Mapping Kamloops’ Toxic Drug Poisoning Crisis 

    Jayse Heer-Matonovich, Bensly Pierre, and Loghan Eskritt were among the top three finalists and recipients of the People’s Choice Award at the 2025 Map the…

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  • Kamloops Museum and Archives, Site of the FireSmart Cultural Mapping Lab and Exhibition, July-August, 2025 

    Kamloops Museum and Archives, Site of the FireSmart Cultural Mapping Lab and Exhibition, July-August, 2025 

    Community Partnership Development Meeting Notes, May 2, 2025  “A Cultural Mapping of the FireSmart Program: Community and Social Drivers Affecting Both Neighborhood and Personal Awareness…

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  • Wawanesa becomes first insurer to fund new research with TRU Wildfire

    Wawanesa becomes first insurer to fund new research with TRU Wildfire

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2025 Wawanesa becomes first insurer to fund new research with TRU Wildfire KAMLOOPS, B.C.— Wawanesa Insurance is leading the charge…

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  • DrugAwareBC and TRU to Launch New Trades Micro-Credential on Drug Awareness and Safety in September, 2025

    DrugAwareBC and TRU to Launch New Trades Micro-Credential on Drug Awareness and Safety in September, 2025

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DrugAwareBC and Thompson Rivers University Collaborate on Trades Training Course Focused on Drug Awareness and Safety Kamloops, BC— DrugAwareBC is partnering with…

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  • Livingmaps Network   Conference 2025

    Livingmaps Network Conference 2025

    Our thanks to LivingMaps and Heather Miles for an update on the “More-than-Human” mapping conference and the “Walking and Memory Mapping” workshop with Canadian artist…

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