I’m excited to share that my collaborative research program “Fighting Fire with Food” with the Gitanyow Nation has been supported by the Trebek Initiative and National Geographic. After over 100 years of fire exclusion, fire will be revitalized across the Lax’yip (territory) to support the productivity of food and medicinal plants. The routine application of controlled fire will also help protect the community from out-of-control wildfires. Click here for more information about the grant.

My interview for the New York Times is linked below.

I’m excited to share that I’ve been selected as a Wilburforce leader in Conservation Science. I’m looking forward to learning with the 2023/2024 cohort!

Our Nature Communication’s paper is the featured paper of the month. Access the free paper here.

My interview with the BBC is featured here: Did climate change cause Canada's wildfires? Click here.

Click here to listen to my interview on CBC’s BC Today with Michelle Elliot. We discuss the current status of wildfires in BC and how we can better co-exist with fire.

This special issue of Wildfire Magazine focuses on the status and history of prescribed burning in Canada. Click the image for a link to the article.

New long read in Maclean’s magazine featuring our research on wildfire in BC. Click on the image below to read the whole story.

Click the image below for a Q and A with Kira Hoffman and Amy Cardinal Christianson along with media coverage of our collaborative research on the need for Indigenous-led fire stewardship in Canada. Image concept by Kira Hoffman and Amy Cardinal Christianson and illustration by Alexandra Langwieder of Align Illustration.

Click on the link below to read the article by Amanda Follett Hosgood (Image: Josh Neufeld/Gathering Voices).

Wildfires of Varying Intensity Can Be Good for Biodiversity

To read my full interview with Quanta Magazine, click the image below.

B.C. wildfires a ‘wake-up call’ to return to Indigenous-led fire management

Click on the wonderful art (Lauren Marchand) to read this wonderful peice by Kelsie Kilawna.

Opinion: Yes, we can save BC from the worst wildfires - here’s how

What’s the best way to protect BC fro future mega-fires? Thin out forests and let them burn. By: Lori Daniels, Kira Hoffman and Robert Gray

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My interview with Fast Company on how cultural burning can help curb the global biodiversity crisis. Click on the image below.

Click on the infographic below to read articles featured on CBC and CTV news about how cultural burning can enhance biodiversity around the globe. The infographic demonstrates how low- and mixed-severity cultural burning is critical to support species diversity and habitat heterogeneity across 7 terrestrial biomes. When systems of Indigenous fire stewardship are disrupted with high-severity fire, biodiversity declines.

Discussing the future of wildfire in BC and how we can use controlled fire to decrease wildfire risk in communities CBC radio's The House

My interview with CBC on how climate change is impacting wildfire severity in British Columbia.

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My contribution to the Tyee on the source and trend of human wildfire ignitions in BC.

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My contribution on how prescribed fire can help mitigate wildfires on CBC Vancouver news at 6:00 pm (July 12th, 2021) can be accessed through the hyperlink below.

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The hyperlink to the CBC article I contributed to can be accessed below:

B.C. policy-makers urged to embrace controlled burns to reduce wildfire risk

My opinion piece in the Globe and Mail on why Canada needs to embrace long-term wildfire strategies that are informed by the best available science and millennia of Indigenous knowledge. Click on the image below to access the article.

A helicopter pilot prepares to drop water on a wildfire burning in Lytton, B.C., on July 2, 2021.DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press — A helicopter pilot prepares to drop water on a wildfire burning in Lytton, B.C., on July 2, 2021.
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I’m really proud to announce that I have been awarded a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship and an Early Career Research Grant from National Geographic for my postdoctoral research on Indigenous fire stewardship and wildfire resiliency in British Columbia, Canada. You can read more about my research here.

I recently contributed to CBC’s Quirks and Quarks special on the “Glass obstacle course: Why so few women hold top STEM spots.” This topic is so important. Find the article here and listen to the two-part special here. My voice is the first thing you hear on the program and my interview is intermingled with many of the inspiring women featured.

Our new paper is out! Access it for free here: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1WzrP1L~GwGcLF

Hakai Magazine's "Setting Fire in the Rain" is a short story about our fire history research on the Central Coast of British Columbia. You can read the full story here https://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-short/setting-fire-rain

My science communication piece "Quest for Fire" is featured in the new Coast Mountain Culture magazine. Find it in print at several outdoorsy stores in the Pacific Northwest or online http://mountainculturegroup.com/magazines/coast/

Our paper "Intertidal resource use over millennia enhances forest productivity," which was published in Nature Communications last year has won the W. S. Cooper Award for outstanding contribution to the fields of plant ecology and biogeography. To read more about the Ecological Society of America award and our research click on the image below to access a short story featured in The Ring.

My research on historic fire activity in the Great Bear Rainforest located on the Central Coast of British Columbia was recently featured in the New York Times. Click on the image below to read the whole article.

A story about our new paper examining human and climate drivers of fire activity in a British Columbia coastal temperate rainforest is featured on EurekAlert. Click the image below to access.

Our research is featured on Quirks and Quarks!! Click here to listen to Dr. Andrew Trant discuss how millennia of traditional land use practices by First Nations have made forests along the Central Coast of British Columbia more productive. For a more detailed description of our findings, check out our Nature Communications paper (link below).

Shanna Baker's Piece The Secret World of Bog features my research on B.C. hypermaritime bogs. Her photo essay also nabbed the award for best photojournalism at the 2017 Canadian Online Publishing Awards!. Click on the image below to access the story.

First Nations' traditional way of life good for ecology: B.C. study. New article in the Globe and Mail on our Nature Communications paper (see link below). Click through image to read the full article. Photo Will McInnes/Hakai Institute.

Our new study on how people have enhanced, not degraded, the environment over 13,000 years is published in Nature Communications. To read the full paper click on the infographic below.

Hakai Magazine's story "How British Columbia's Coastal People Fertilized the Forest" features our research on intertidal resource use published in Nature Communications this week. Click the image below to read the full story.

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The Burning Bog is a mini documentary by Grant Callegari and the Hakai Institute on my fire history research on the Central Coast of B.C.

A dinnertime conversation at the Hakai Research Station is "A Feast of Ideas" to Jude Isabella. Featured in the October 2014 edition of The Walrus.

My field report about conducting research in bog ecosystems on Patagonia's blog, The Cleanest Line.

My research on coastal bog ecosystems has also been featured by the University of Victoria.