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Snowshadow (snowshadow@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 20:35:42 JST Snowshadow

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.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/cree-students-nemaska-science-fair-boreal-fire-retardants-1.7165226
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  Kristopher Neeposh and Rory Henry-Felstead recently won first place at the 2024 Quebec Indigenous Science Fair. Their project explored whether some boreal extracts derived from Eeyou Istchee may be natural fire retardants.

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