Research
Project
New Communication Styles for Better Forest Management
Themes
Co-management, Learning Organizations and Adaptive Management, Orality and Literacy, Negotiating Local Knowledge, Community Forestry
Interests
My research interest is to develop understanding of how forest management dependency on a technology of literacy can diminish systemic and democratic conversation at the field forestry level. The PhD project will examine various ways that indigenous and non-indigenous forest managers can lessen their dependency on literacy while maintaining power in negotiating local knowledge and forest comanagement agreements.
Academic and Professional Experience
Research Experience
2003 to 2006– Sustainable Forest Management Research Group, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
1998-2003 Inventec Forestry Consulting (est. 1986)
– Assisted in the research of sustainable community business development plans for village of Clinton , the village of Horsefly and Likely, the Xeni G’weten and Xat’tlem First Nations.
– Assisted in development of the Likely/Xat’sull community forest licence application.
– Served as chair of the Likely/Xat’sull Community Forest Board.
– Managed all aspects of response to inventory, planning, logging and marketing for woodlot licence salvage permits (WL 1808).
1996-1997 Forest Issues Co-ordinator (Cariboo Tribal Council)
– First Nations liaison for proposal writing, planning and supervision of Forest Renewal BC projects with communities of the Cariboo Tribal Council.
1995-1996 Senior Resource Planner (Ministry of Small Business, Tourism and Culture)
– Managed ‘implementation’ of tourism targets of Cariboo Chilcotin Land Use Plan
1986-1995 Self-employed forest survey contractor (Inventec Forestry Consulting)
– Silviculture and forest inventory surveys, stand tending and planting supervision, mapping for forest licencees, government and private land clients within the Kamloops and Cariboo Forest Regions.
1981-1986 Inventory Resource Officer (BC Ministry of Forests, Mackenzie District)
1975-1981 Seasonal Field Forestry Technician (BC Ministry of Forests, Inventory Branch)
Academic Qualifications
1993 Simon Fraser University, Canada: Master of Resource Management
1979 Simon Fraser University, Canada: Bachelor of Arts (Communication)