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Author
I have 480 published works. I am the author of Outdoor Safety & Survival published by Rocky Mountain Books in March 2012; The Mountain Knows No Expert - George Evanoff, Outdoorsman and Contemporary Hero published by Dundurn (Toronto) in March 2009; Exploring Prince George - A Guide to North Central B.C. Outdoors published by Rocky Mountain Books (Calgary) in 2004 and by Heritage House (Richmond) in 2007; Outdoor Safety and Survival in British Columbia's Backcountry self-published (Prince George) in 2007; and I have contributed to three prior books (see Writing).
Public involvement
I am a public member of the Peace Williston Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program Steering Committee; of the Forum for Research and Extension in Natural Resources (FORREX) Northern Region Strategic Advisory Committee; of the Program Advisory Group for the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) Forest Growth and Yield Endowment Program; of UNBC's Forestry Curriculum Advisory Board; and of the Hart and Cariboo Mountains Caribou Recovery Action Group. I was also a member of the planning committee for the May 2008 UNBC conference, BC's Inland Rainforest - Conservation and Community.
I was appointed by the BC government to the Forest Practices Board in November 2008 for a two-year term, renewed in November 2010 for a further two years; and I was appointed by the government as a lay councillor of the Association of BC Forest Professionals from 2002 to 2005.
I have participated for the past 20 years in public land and resource planning initiatives, including the Prince George Land & Resource Management Plan and the Herrick Creek Local Resource Use Plan. I was a presenter and panelist in several resource management conferences arising from these experiences, and I was a proponent of four of the new protected areas in the mountains east of Prince George.
In the early nineties I chaired Prince George's Nechako & Fraser River Valleys Committee and helped develop a ten-year strategic plan for the riverside trails and parks in Prince George. I represented the Federation of Mountain Clubs provincially in BC Lands' first Commercial Recreation Policy process, and I have been a member of several local community advisory committees including FMC of Canada Ltd's Community Advisory Panel in Prince George from 1994 to 2005.
Outdoors
I have over 40 years of experience with backcountry recreation, most of it in British Columbia. Since 1978, I have gained a broad knowledge of outdoor recreation resources, particularly relating to backpacking, hiking and walking opportunities in central and northern British Columbia.
Leadership
I have researched, organized and guided many hiking and backpacking trips, often including historical and natural history interpretation. I developed public slide shows on backcountry recreation themes including several popular shows on Backpacking in Northern BC which I have presented in Prince George, Williams Lake, Vancouver and Victoria. I feel fortunate to have had the opportunity to introduce new people to the backcountry through stories, slide shows, teaching, and best of all through taking them there.
Health & safety
I have a strong interest in health and safety in the backcountry as well as in the community and in industry. Soon after arriving in Prince George, I spent several years as a volunteer leader for Search and Rescue. Later, I pursued industrial first aid and wilderness first aid training, and had direct involvement in health and safety in the workplace, both as an industrial first aid attendant and as the leader of a site evacuation team. I taught outdoor survival in the community, and have authored many articles on outdoor safety. In 2001 and 2002 I developed and delivered an outdoor safety seminar for the University of Northern BC, and in 2005 I was a guest presenter at a Ministry of Forests Safety Day, these events being the inspiration for my 2007 book on outdoor safety and survival.
Business
Before embarking on my own venture in 2000, 20 years in the Forest Industry in B.C. and 33 years in Information Technology in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. helped to broaden my understanding of community, educational and business needs relative to the shared resources in the north. Prior to moving to BC, while working in the field of telecommunications for the airline and travel industry, I gained an appreciation for that industry and of the outdoors in eastern Canada. Computer Journal
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