Webinar: Strengthening wildfire resilience with urban forestry practices

Wildfire occurrences have dramatically increased across Canada over the last decade, challenging communities of all sizes to balance nature-based climate solutions with effective risk management. Whether your municipality is recovering from past wildfires or proactively planning to reduce your risks in the future, this webinar will help you integrate wildfire risk mitigation strategies into your urban forestry practices to enhance your community’s resilience.

Join us to hear from municipal practitioners and sector experts, including GCCC Urban forestry coaches as they share ways to build wildfire resilience through good urban forest planning.

By attending this webinar, you will:  

• Explore how strategic urban forest planning strengthens your community’s overall wildfire resilience.  
• Discover how strategic tree planting and management can mitigate wildfire risk.
• Hear from experts debunking the idea that planting more trees brings greater wildfire risk.
• Learn about approaches municipalities are taking to mitigate wildfire risk through strategic urban forest management.

Speakers:  

• Jason Lyon, Deputy Fire Chief, Community Risk Reduction, Town of Canmore 
• Riley Welden, Parks Planner, Town of Canmore 
• Matt Shields, Urban forestry coach for GMF’s Growing Canada’s Community Canopies initiative 

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The Green Municipal Fund's Growing Canada’s Community Canopies is a $291 million initiative, ending in 2031, funded by the Government of Canada and delivered by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. Capacity building is enabled through a partnership with Tree Canada. GCCC will support the planting of at least 1.2M trees across Canada by end of March 2031.