When: Tuesday, November 5 | 6pm
Where: Della Herman Theatre | Smithers, BC
Tickets: Tickets by donation are available at Mills Stationary in Smithers
Join bestselling writer John Vaillant for a talk about our changing climate and the new realities of wildfire.
Author of Fire Weather, The Golden Spruce, The Tiger and more, Vaillant is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and one of Canada’s most acclaimed journalists. The presentation will be followed by a panel including Smithers-based fire ecologist Dr. Kira Hoffman, a National Geographic Explorer, Trebek Initiative grantee and researcher with the BVRC and the Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship at UBC, as well as Elder Darlene Vegh, an Indigenous scientist and fire practitioner from Wilp Wii Litsxw, Gitanyow Nation. Dr. Lori Daniels, Koerner Chair of the Centre for Wildfire Coexistence in the Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship at UBC, will be moderating the event.
Presented by UBC Forestry & Environmental Stewardship and the Bulkley Valley Research Centre.
