Williams Lake, B.C. – Central Chilcotin Rehabilitation Ltd. (CCR), a joint venture company owned by the Tŝideldel First Nation, the Tl’etinqox Government and the Yunesit’in Government, has been implementing large-scale, Indigenous-led forest management programs and initiatives within their communities for nearly a decade. Recently, with funding support from the Forest Enhancement Society of BC, CCR has expanded its forest rehabilitation work, delivering innovative treatments that are making local forests in the Chilcotin more resilient to climate change and losses from wildfires. A project of note is a fire salvage and ecosystem restoration project called “the Palmer project”, located in the Cariboo Chilcotin in an area heavily impacted by wildfires in 2017.