Amid climate impacts, leading Secwépemc firekeeper shares ‘a better way of looking after the land’
Joe Gilchrist, a Secwépemc firekeeper, stands in a forest by Fox Farm Road near ‘Merritt,’ in Nlakaʼpamux and syilx territory, on July 16. His crew treated this specific landscape with a cultural fire decades ago, and estimates that it’s been nearly 20 …