They finally manage to find an underground river, and a boat, and break through a rock wall to escape the creatures. As Picket and Smalls navigate the labyrinth of tunnels underground, trying to find a way out, they hear the sound of their enemies searching for them. He learns the rabbit’s name is Smalls, and he is Wilfred’s adopted son. Picket does not like the white rabbit’s condescending attitude. Uncle Wilfred cannot fit, but will meet up with them later.
Picket and the white rabbit carry Heather into the tunnels. The gray rabbit introduces himself as the children’s Uncle Wilfred. Picket watches as the gray rabbit and another white rabbit fight the wolves, sending them fleeing in shame. As their leader pounces on her, she is pushed out of the wolf’s way and knocked unconscious by a gray rabbit. Heather hides Picket inside an underground mound, but she cannot fit within the tunnel. Heather drags Picket to safety as several of the wolves turn to hunt them. Once they return home, they find their house in the elm tree has been lit on fire. The young rabbits are made to pick berries so their parents and the stranger can talk privately. She overhears the strange female rabbit tell her parents about someone named Morbin, who has sent wolves out to hunt for the Green Ember.
In the morning, Heather is surprised that someone is already visiting them. One night, he tells them a true story about a great rabbit king named Jupiter, who brought peace and unity to the many rabbit warrens.Ī great fighter, he also protected them from fierce wolves and birds. The FireSmart program speaks to what the homeowner can do to increase the survivability of their home and structures, and the steps you can take to protect your home before an evacuation order.Heather and her younger brother Picket are adolescent rabbits who have lived a sheltered life in Nick Hollow with their parents and younger brother, Jacks. Her messaging articulates a different approach than Smokey’s original: “Only YOU can prevent forest fires.” FireSmart’s re-branded messaging is more expansive and includes what experts have learned about fighting fires and its cultural role within Indigenous communities. Prescribed fires lit and controlled by professionals help bring natural fuel levels down to lower the intensity of wildfires.Įmber is the new mascot for the FireSmart program, and unlike Smokey, her design was conceived, designed, and developed by Canadians. “We’re getting ourselves back to that natural state and we’re using prescribed fire to do that,” said Hood. More than 100 years ago, fires caused naturally by lightning or through cultural burning would go through the Okanagan and Columbia Valley, keeping the ecosystem in balance. has broken the natural cycle of fire on the landscape. “When it’s done a proper way at a proper time.” “Fire on the landscape can be a good thing,” said Hood. Hood said that it’s time to change the messaging behind fires from ‘all fires are bad’ to a more modern concept.
They are visualizing that change through the retirement of Smokey Bear and the introduction of their new mascot: Ember the Fox.Īccording to the BC Wildfire Service, last summer was the busiest wildfire season on record, and three of the last five years have all been in the top three.
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Stefan Hood of the BC Wildfire Service says they are trying to shift people’s focus away from how to suppress fire toward how to live with it. After a long and successful career, Smokey Bear is retiring in an effort to change the way people think about fire.
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