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Kira Hoffman

Fire ecologist and former wildland firefighter at the University of British Columbia's Centre for Wildfire Coexistence and a National Geographic Explorer (2026 Nat Geo 33 honoree).

Oct 9, 2026

5:08
Yeah.
5:08
We picked berries, rode horses, Nordic skied.
5:12
I mean, it was incredible.
5:14
And, um, we had a huge garden.
5:17
We really, like, lived on our farm where we had sheep and horses and chickens.
5:23
And, um, I guess everything kind of made sense to me 'cause I could see the systems working.

7 MINS LATER

12:07
Cool.
12:07
So climate related.
7:07
How big is it, and, and what's it like to, to actually do it?
7:10
Sure.
7:11
Uh, so this, this coming week, I'm actually doing a lot of burns.
7:15
Uh, so I go out with, uh, different nations, so in this case, the Gidnyenew Nation in, in northern British Columbia.
7:23
We are going out usually as a five-pack, and we're meeting, uh, BC Wildfire, which is the fire agency, and we have a burn that's approved.
7:31
In this neck of the woods here, we actually have some stand-replacing objectives, so we actually do want to remove some of the trees, uh, from around the community because this is a community with one road in and one road out, so we have to think about wildfire risk and getting people in and out of the community safely.
7:50
And, you know, in the morning, we're going out, and we're checking the temperature.
10:34
And could we do this in the United States in places like Los Angeles or nearby or, or the Bay Area? Is that reasonable in those communities?

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