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Indigenous fire keepers and ecologists say it’s time to light a careful fire to calm wildfires

With a deft swing of a drip torch, Joe Gilchrist ignited sagebrush near Savona this spring, just northwest of Kamloops. B.C. In seconds, an angry crackle grows into a tongue of orange flame, fluorescent against the dusty landscape of the Skeetchestn Indian Reserve in central B.C. Gilchrist — a fire keeper — sets …

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