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Indigenous practices are the future — and past — of wildfire prevention
Thousand-year-old practices are at the core of wildfire mitigation efforts in the Westbank First Nation Community Forest.
Aaron Hemens March 2, 2022
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Pope's planned visit to so-called Canada is little more than a “publicity exercise on the part of the Vatican,” says OKIB Chief Byron Louis.

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