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“Parks Canada accepts the third-party report’s recommendations and is initiating necessary changes to its processes for future fire operations,” the federal agency states.

“A response to the incident will be shared publicly. The response will include lessons learned from the incident.”

An indigenous community in British Columbia reintroduces traditional fire knowledge and practices to manage land vulnerable to wildfires

The setting was idyllic: a clearing of tawny grass, ringed by ponderosa pines under a robin’s egg sky. Trucks pulled up, coffee and doughnuts appeared on a tailgate and a dog lolled in the sun.

“If anyone sees a bear limping they will probably give it food. People sometimes reposed to injured animals with their heart and not all their wisdom – and that would be a big problem."

As wildfire seasons become longer and more intense, prescribed burns can help prevent forests from becoming out-of-control infernos

As wildfire seasons become longer and more intense, prescribed burns can help prevent forests from becoming out-of-control infernos

A prescribed fire that got out of control near the Banff townsite has been extinguished.

A prescribed fire that got out of control near the Banff townsite has been extinguished.

A prescribed fire that got out of control in Banff is now classified as "under control", the park announced on social media Saturday night.