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Who We Are - Board of Directors

The 2010 Board

Damien Gillis

Save Our Rivers Society

Damien Gillis is a Vancouver-based documentary filmmaker with a focus on environmental and social justice issues - especially relating to water, energy, and saving Canada's wild salmon. His film "Farmed Salmon Exposed" was premiered around the world during the recent Global Week of Action on Farmed Salmon, presented by the Pure Salmon Campaign. He has worked with such organizations as Save Our Rivers Society, Watershed Watch Salmon Society, and BC Citizens for Public Power. He is a board member of the Haig-Brown Institute, and a director of the Farmland Defence League of BC. Gillis is also the editor of a new online journal with colleague Rafe Mair - The Common Sense Canadian, at TheCanadian.org.

David Boehm - Treasurer

Friends of Cathedral Grove

David is both a scientific researcher and an active environmentalist. He holds a B.Sc. (Zoology, UBC). David has been involved in many important environmental conservation campaigns (stopping: aerial spraying, gas fired Hydro plants, the Cathedral Grove Parking lot, and even a bridge to GabriolaIsland.) As a new director of the B.C. Environmental Network, David hopes to contribute towards the enhancement of sensible, ecologically based perspectives across the province and looks forward to building a responsive and responsible BC Environmental Network.

Doug Gook

Forest Protection Allies

An advocate for cooperatives, credit unions and for strengthening community democracy. He operates a biodynamic garden and apiary near Quesnel and is a director of Spirit Dance Cooperative, an intentional community that operates a market garden, orchard, and forest woodlot in the Cariboo. Since 1978 he has worked with community groups and First Nations through Silvequus Selection Systems and has a consultant practice that works to implement employment intensive ecoforestry such as selective logging with horses.

He has served on the board of the Canadian Environmental Network and as the BCEN representative to the Treaty Negotiations Advisory Committee.

Doug is a member/director of no fewer than ten co-operatives, "I think the history of the co-operative movement in BC has a fundamental role in a system change that will lead us to greater sustainability and democracy. Participatory Economics offers solutions to the failings of the current unjust and collapsing systems."

Andy Sinats

Society Targeting Overuse of Pesticides (S.T.O.P)

Andy is a printmaker and graphic artist. He produces posters, buttons, flags, t-shirts, publications, and art print editions. His work in in many public collections including the National Gallery of Canada and the Bibliotheque Nationale. His graphic designs have figured in many campaigns from Save the Whales, Rainbow Warrior, No Oilport, Nuclear Free B.C., Clayoquot Arrests, to Free Speech. He founded and directed Greenpeace Graphics, and has produced designs for hundreds of campaigns, blockades, demonstrations and tree sits from Greenpeace Zodiacs to Stop the Canadian Seal Hunt Now!

Rod Marining - Vice-Chair

People's Action for Threatened Habitats (P.A.T.H)

Co-Founder of Greenpeace International. Sailed on the first voyage of the Esperanza, Greenpeace's newest vessel. Arrested in Europe in 2003 four times for protesting the importation of Amazon Rainforest Mahogany logs (one of the Greenpeace actions resulted in the three day shut down of the main loading terminal in the Netherlands. The resulting 20 million law suit was thrownout of court because Mahogany importation is illegal due to the fact that it is an endangered species under CITIES) . Director of the Quenel River Watershed Alliance; Campaign Co-ordinator of PATH, (People's Action for Threatened Habitats); Participant in the Mtn. Caribou RIG-Recovery Implementation Group sponsored by the Province of British Columbia; Participant in Species At Risk Advisory Committee meetings sponsored by the Federal Government.

Dave Stevens

C.H.O.K.E.D.

Dave Stevens is a computer geek and environmental activist working locally and nationally on clean air issues. He is a compulsive reader, walks and hitchhikes everywhere and is exploring the boundaries of small footprint
living. Dave has many years of board experience in local, provincial and national organizations. Loves bicycles and tries to come to terms with the abundant surrounding post-industrial landscapes of northwestern BC. He was co-Chair of the Conservation and Environment caucus of the Morice LRMP and is newly appointed to the Bulkley Community Resources Board.

Ingmar Lee

Friends of Cathedral Grove, (F.R.O.G.)

Ingmar Lee has planted trees professionally in BC for 21 years. He planted more than a million trees in all 14 BC biogeoclimatic zones and has supervised the planting of 10 million more. This on-the-ground experience has given him a rare insight into the scope and scale of the voracious industrial logging that is devastating the forests of British Columbia. Ingmar has been around the world 9 times and has traveled extensively throughout the Indian subcontinent. When he first visited India in 1977 there were about 600 million people. Since then, he has seen India's population double. In 2005 Ingmar graduated from UVic with a BA degree in Asian and Environmental Studies. With his experiential and academic understanding of the global ecological catastrophe, Ingmar now works to protect whatever remains of primaeval wilderness. Ingmar lives near Bella Bella BC in the heart of one of this planets most magnificent wilderness areas. Ingmar can be reached via his website at www.ingmarlee.com

Dr. Karen Wonders

Western Canada Wilderness Committee

BCEN Staff:

Chris Blake - Executive Coordinator

Deborah Ferens - Financial Administrator