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Stacy Barter, MEd, is an organizational and community development consultant who has worked for over 15 years with a wide range of communities, non-pro t, and public sector organizations in Canada and Latin America. She is
a dynamic facilitator who brings extensive experience designing and leading innovative programs and training in the areas of community engagement, sustainability, and leadership development.
Shannon Berch works on forest
soil conservation, soil biology,
and Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) including edible mycorrhizal mushrooms and the integration
of harvested forest mushrooms into forest management. Shannon is a founding member of the Sotu Vancouver Island Mycological Society and a member of the Truf e Association of BC, dedicated to the development of a Périgord Black Truf e farm sector in the province.
Geoff Bird, PhD, Associate Professor in the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at RRU. His research focused on the relationship between remembrance and tourism to battle elds. Geoff has 25 years of tourism experience, teaching and working in various capacities in Southeast Asia, Europe, and North America.
His present research interests include community-based tourism development, sustainable tourism, identity and tourism, heritage, and cultural tourism.
Tangle Caron is a performer, puppeteer, musician, environmental educator, napper, snacker, and Lady Adventurer. Currently, she is a puppeteer for Mountain WHIT, Canada Park’s professional theatre troupe, co- director of Entangled Puppetry, and a founding member of The Found Object Puppetry Collective. She has had the great fortune to study with Bread and Puppet Theatre and at the Banff Puppetry Intensive presented by the Old Trout
Puppet Workshop.
Robert Bateman has been an artist and naturalist since his early childhood, and is one Canada’s foremost artists. His passion for the well-being of human and natural heritage has made him
an environmental champion and hero for the nature world. In Hope and Wild Apples, his latest book, he urges us to make strong efforts to reconnect by slowing down, paying attention, getting acquainted, and falling in love with nature.
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Diana Beresford-Kroeger is a botanist, medical biochemist
and self-de ned “renegade scientist,” who brings ethnobotany, horticulture, spirituality, and alternative medicine together
to reveal a path toward better stewardship of the natural world.
A precise and poetic writer steeped in Gaelic storytelling traditions gathered from her childhood, she has written many books, and the popular television series “Recreating Eden” has featured Diana’s visionary work.
Gary Backlund is a Master Woodland Manager, and his daughter Katherine has a Forest Resources Technology Program diploma. The family specializes
in producing lumber for the woodworking market and in non- timber forest resources. Gary and Katherine are the authors of the book, Bigleaf Sugaring – Tapping the Western Maple.
Judy Carter is an education, business communications, and media relations consultant with diverse teaching experience in communication, teambuilding, con ict management, consensus building, critical and integrative thinking, and sustainability. In addition to teaching in RRU’s MACAM, MEM, BJUS, BES and faculty professional development programs, she has taught for University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University, Camosun College, Douglas College,
and United Nations Virtual Development Academy.
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