In May 2023, the Boothroyd Indian Band worked alongside BC Wildfire Service to prepare a 45-hectare treatment area for a planned cultural burn. This work took place near Boston Bar, on the unceded traditional territory of NIaka’pamux Nation and will promote wildfire risk reduction, food and medicinal plant revitalization and habitat enhancement. Through traditional practices like cultural burning, the community not only mitigates wildfire risk, but also passes traditional knowledge to the younge