About
Summary
Experienced natural resource management professional and facilitator with a demonstrated history of enabling collaboration on complex issues across multiple jurisdictions.
Education
BScF (Forest Management), University of Toronto, 1994
MA (Conflict Analysis and Management), Royal Roads University, 2004
Microcertificate, Forest Carbon Management, University of BC, 2022
Professional Memberships
Registered Professional Forester, Forest Professionals BC, since 1996
Experience
Mike spent the first 12 years of his career from 1994 to 2006 focused on operational forestry working for consulting companies for a variety of clients in the Cariboo-Chilcotin, Lillooet, Merritt and Quesnel areas. He specialized in timber and forest development and appraisals but also did soil disturbance surveys, silviculture surveys and bark beetle management.
While maintaining involvement in forestry as a part time consultant, managing stand improvement and wildfire risk reduction projects on woodlot licenses, he worked between 2006 and 2022 for the Fraser Basin Council, facilitating complex multi-jurisdictional issues on a variety of topics including agriculture, mining, trails, recreation, watersheds, hydrology, water quality, wildlife, Indigenous title and rights, economic development, fisheries, invasive species, air quality, sustainable development, flood and debris flow risk assessment and mapping.
In 2022, Mike returned to his forestry roots as a self-employed consultant, aiming to balance professional forestry and natural resource management with facilitation of complex natural resource management issues involving multiple jurisdictions and advancing reconciliation with Indigenous peoples and adaptation to climate change.