Elephant Hill wildfire burned more than 1,900 square kilometres of forests, grasslands and properties in the summer of 2017
The report was released Wednesday by the Secwepemcul’ecw Restoration and Stewardship Society, based in Kamloops, B.C. The society was founded by eight Secwepemc communities directly affected by the Elephant Hill wildfire and has been working to pursue landscape recovery and restoration throughout their territories.
“We just need to make sure that we don’t take nature services for granted. When something seems free, then you tend to overuse it or you tend to use it badly,” she said in an interview. Similarly, the lost value of culture, well-being and education services ranged from about $2.6 million to $26.7 million per year, depending on the frequency of such activities.The $1-billion annual price tag was calculated using the high estimated values, while the low estimate was about $512 million.
The analysis also estimated separate one-time losses, dominated by carbon storage loss from the burning of trees and soil valued at $1.57 billion to $1.58 billion. In December 2021, the society released another report that produced 30 calls to action to improve wildfire management and recovery practices. That report said the fire could have been better managed if the province, including the wildfire service, had worked with Indigenous communities earlier and more actively throughout the response and recovery processes.
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