Northern Cree community students' project on natural fire retardants in boreal forest wins at science fair

Kristopher Neeposh and Rory Henry-Felstead won 1st place at Quebec Indigenous Science Fair

Their most significant finding was that jack pine extract, applied to different materials, seemed to slow the spread of flames. They found that it even out-performed ammonium sulfate, a commercially available fire retardant.

#News #ClimateCrisis #Indigenous #Wildfire
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/cree-students-nemaska-science-fair-boreal-fire-retardants-1.7165226