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The toolkit shares practices and related resources on Indigenous-led fire practices and settler and state-led fire management for Indigenous Peoples and wildlife in the Saskatchewan River Delta in northern Saskatchewan. Many aspects of this toolkit are applicable across Canada.

This course offers practical skills and knowledge to understand the effects of fires on natural environments through ecosystem decoding. The course also explores the impacts of, and the interactions between, fire management and forest management over the past 100 plus years. By the end of the course, participants will be able to prepare communities to respond to wildfire threats and create ecosystem resiliency through restoration methods - in fire and forest landscapes with multiple ecological objectives.

Presented from both Indigenous and western perspectives, the online program provides a unique learning opportunity that combines knowledge of western fire science and Indigenous ways of knowing with landscape and fire ecology and social sciences to address a vital need for professional training in the increasingly complex area of wildfire management.

The Wildland Firefighting Silviculture Training is an 8-week, field-based program designed to introduce participants to various career paths in natural resources, including field-based forestry work. It provides valuable skills and 16 industry certifications relevant to forestry roles such as Silviculture, Forest Operations, Tree Planting, and Danger Tree Assessing.