I spent seven seasons on an Initial Attack crew with BC Wildfire Service, based out of Nelson, BC, where my passion for prescribed burning first sparked. During the off-season, I headed to Alberta, working as a mountain pine beetle surveyor and quality inspector through the winter months.

I hold a Technical Diploma in Integrated Environmental Planning (Selkirk College) and a Bachelor of Natural Resource Science (Thompson Rivers University). My undergraduate thesis focused on historic fire frequency and fire-climate relationships using pyro-dendrochronology in a dry Interior Douglas-fir ecosystem. I’m currently a Forester in Training, working toward my RPF designation.

As a raised Kootenay kid, bringing my wildfire suppression experience into prevention and mitigation to the community I grew up in feels incredibly rewarding.

A landscape level wildfire plan for my home valley and blending my operational wildfire experience with landscape-level planning was a powerful experience. I’m also proud of helping design an ecosystem restoration prescription for a prescribed burn west of Arrow Lakes.

I’m out in the mountains — skiing, biking, hiking, sledding, or dirt biking. When I slow down, you might find me secretly creating art and crafting.

To ski like my brothers.