Experience

BC Forest Practices Board
• Canada
• Government Relations Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Manager, Special Projects

  • Nov 2020 - Present


Rainforest Alliance

• United States
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 700 & Above Employee

• Forest Management Auditor and Chain Of Custody Auditor

  • Jun 2014 - Present

  FM and CoC Auditor through consulting services for Rainforest Alliance Canada. FM and CoC Auditor through consulting services for Rainforest Alliance Canada.



Council of the Haida Nation

• Stewardship Planning Co-ordinator

  • Dec 2010 - Nov 2020

  -Development and implementation of the Cultural Features Identification Program (training, standards development, auditing);-Support and development of Haida Gwaii Reconciliation processes (Haida Nation and the Ministry of Aboriginal Reconciliation); -Solutions Table representative for the Council of the Haida Nation;-Technical support for Ecosystem Based Management implementation

• Co-Chair, Timber Supply Joint Working Group

  • Mar 2011 - Apr 2012

  Facilitate a technical Timber Supply Review process that led to the formal determination by the Haida Nation and the Province of BC for the Allowable Annual Cut on Haida Gwaii, British Columbia

• Chair, Joint Technical Team

  • Mar 2008 - Dec 2010

  Facilitate the implementation of the Strategic Land Use Agreement between the Province of British Columbia and the Council of the Haida Nation. Led to the establishment of the Haida Gwaii Land Use Objectives Order, legal 'Conservancy' designations and Heritage Site/Conservancy Management plans.



Sangan Environmental Services

• Principal

  • Jan 2004 - Nov 2020

  Applied ecology, sustainable forest management, governance

• Blue Ribbon Panel member

  • Apr 2018 - Dec 2018

  Blue Ribbon Panel member for the review of the Provincial Forest Inventory Program in British Columbia. Report for the office of the Chief Forester and the Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development.

• Forestry skills development workshops with Kitasoo/Xai'Xais

  • May 2018 - May 2018

  Providing training with the Kitasoo/Xai'Xais Stewardship Authority towards the implementation of the Great Bear Rainforest Land Use Objectives Order (LUOO). Training was designed to compliment and help build key skills for resource stewardship technicians, including traversing, data collection and the identification of resource features outlined in the LUOO.

• Indigenous Forest Stewardship Initiatives to Mitigate Climate Change

  • Jan 2018 - Mar 2018

  Providing technical support for and working with Bluesource LLC to explore solutions to mitigate climate change by using Improved Forest Management in Canada's Boreal Forests in partnership with First Nations.

• Forest Carbon Offset Policy Options for Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the NWT

  • Feb 2016 - Mar 2016

  A policy options paper that explores forest carbon offsets relative to the Northwest Territories GHG emission reduction targets. The paper outlines British Columbia's current policy framework for forest carbon offsets and provides Indigenous led case-studies of forest carbon offset projects that actively puts carbon as a forest management objective. The paper further reviews the practical application of managing carbon in Canada's northern boreal forests.

• Applied ecology research- Extension Note 114

  • Jun 2014 - Dec 2014

  Lead author and analyst for "A 20 year analysis of incremental silviculture in mixed western hemlock Sitka spruce stands in the Coastal Western Hemlock biogeoclimatic zone", along with Dr. L. de Montigny.



Haida Gwaii Higher Education Society

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sessional Professor

  • Sep 2012 - Apr 2013

  Sessional professor teaching Principles and Concepts of Ecosystem Based Management (CON359) and Case Studies in Natural Resource Management (CON350) with my fantastic co-professor Lindsay Galbraith! Sessional professor teaching Principles and Concepts of Ecosystem Based Management (CON359) and Case Studies in Natural Resource Management (CON350) with my fantastic co-professor Lindsay Galbraith!



Sangan Environmental Consulting

• Principal

  • Mar 2008 - Mar 2013

  Growth and Yield / Permanent Sample Plot establishment, re-measurement and ecological site classifications Growth and Yield / Permanent Sample Plot establishment, re-measurement and ecological site classifications