• Multidisciplinary Consultant (anthropology, environmental and safety educator, natural resource management and sustainability)

Fort Smith

Bio

After graduating with a B.A. in Anthropology, Adam worked on numerous projects related to natural and cultural resource management throughout Western Canada. With Blyth & Bathe, he has garnered a wealth of experience delivering community-based environmental monitor training across the NWT and an extensive background in TK consulting work. A recent highlight for him was co-authoring the Species Status Report for Barren-Ground Caribou in the NWT: Traditional and Community Knowledge Component, for which he spent a month paddling the Thelon River.

Adam is wrapping up his MSc in Natural Resources Management, during which he has gained experience in establishing monitoring programs, developed a GIS-based analysis of habitat disturbances, and blended publicly available TK data with his scientific work. He is currently working with a number of communities to develop Guardians of the Land programs and is the technical writer for the Advisory Committee for Cooperation on Wildlife Management.

• Project planning and advice
• Stakeholder relations and negotiations
• Research and policy

Fort Simpson

Bio

Over his thirty-year career with Parks Canada, Chuck held a wide variety of roles and responsibilities across the country, including Data Manager for the National Parks in the NWT, Resource Management Secretariat Manager for the National Parks in the NWT, Resource Management Planner Western Regional Office for Parks Canada, Superintendent and Chief of Resource Conservation for Nahanni National Park Reserve, National Warden Service Manager for Parks Canada Ottawa, and Manager of the National Parks Research Centre at the University of Alberta. Chuck has authored several pieces on a range of wildlife topics, including ungulate population dynamics, wildlife production systems in Western Canada, aspen parkland paleoecology, vegetation and ungulate management reports for Elk Island National Park, and Resource Management Programs and Research for Nahanni National Park.

As a principle of Blyth & Bathe for the last decade, Chuck has instructed Canadian Firearms Safety Training Course, negotiated impact benefits agreements, taught courses on the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act at the Thebacha Campus of Aurora College, hosted economic workshops, written SWAT analyses, contributed to status assessments of species at risk, and written protected areas assessment reports for the Government of the Northwest Territories.

• Multidisciplinary Consultant (anthropology, environmental and safety educator, guide)

Fort Smith

Bio

John grew up in national parks across the Northwest Territories and developed a lasting love of wild spaces and the people who live in them. His passion led him to study archaeology and anthropology, and he has spent the last decade living and working in the NWT as a multidisciplinary consultant in environmental science, anthropology, education, and wilderness safety. Notably, John has been involved in the Species Status Report for Barren-Ground Caribou in the NWT: Traditional and Community Knowledge Component, the 2014 Government of the Northwest Territories Wildfire Report Card, and the Enbridge Renewal study for Liidlii Kue First Nation, among other projects.