UBCO wildfire symposium hosts experts searching for innovative wildfire solutions

Wildfires will be the hot topic at a UBCO symposium next week.

The three-day conference will feature some of the leading wildfire experts, including Dr. Paul Hessburg with the U.S. Forest Service, West Kelowna Fire Chief Jason Brolund, and Robert Gray, an AFE certified wildland fire ecologist, among others.

The conference is hosted by Dr. Mathieu Bourbonnais and Dr. Lori Daniels.

The goal of the conference is to shed light on the impacts of wildfires and their costs to the province. One of the main points of discussion focuses on the idea that the 2017 to 2023 fire seasons were not anomalies but a new and escalating reality fueled by

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