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Cortes Ecoforestry Society Ph. 250.935.6888 |
Our Staff and Board of Directors
Noba Anderson, Executive DirectorHaving grown up on Cortes Island, Noba has returned to this community as there is no other place she would rather be. She has worked with community non-profits in BC, Asia, Central and South America. Noba has a BA in environmental studies and comparative development from Trent University. Inspired by the community forest efforts on Cortes, she focused her thesis on BC forest tenure issues, community forestry, and specifically our Cortes community forest journey. Since then, she worked for a year with Indonesia’s leading community forest organisation, lived in Harrop-Procter – BC’s only operational community forest guided by a Silva ecosystem-based plan – and was the Community Program Advisor at the Dogwood Initiative. In that role, she traveled BC learning from many community forest ventures and published the leading report ‘Connecting Lands and People: Community Forests in British Columbia.’ Noba believes in the ability of people to make deeply meaningful change. She has returned to Cortes with the goal of making a community forest an operational reality.
Kristen Schofield-Sweet, PresidentKristen is an artist, drum-maker and art educator who brings board experience and policy development skills to CES. With a Ph.D. in Art Education, she has served for many years on the Advisory Planning Commission to the Regional Director and served as President of the Seafood Association from 1997-2000. She served on the North Island College Board from 1992-1998 and is presently a member of the Campbell River and District Public Art Gallery Board where she is helping to write policies at all levels of operation.
Bob Tracy, Vice ChairSince coming to B.C. in 1973, Bob has worked in the forest industry for 25 years in production, forestry engineering, booming, log grading and scaling. He has been a resident of Cortes Island for15 years, and was a founding member of the Cortes Island Forest Committee. Bob has been a member of the Advisory Planning Committee to the Regional District Representative, and currently serves as a Director of the Cortes Harbor Authority. He owns and operates Rachel S. Schooner Charters.
David Shipway, DirectorDavid immigrated with his family to Campbell River in 1965, and started his working life in forest survey and tree-planting throughout BC before moving permanently to Cortes in 1982. He now makes his living designing, building and woodworking with local species. He also enjoys kayaking, sailing and boat-building. He volunteered for several years in helping CES and the Silva Forest Foundation create improved ecosystem-based mapping for the Cortes Island community and as a planning tool for the potential Community Forest.
Fred Savage, DirectorFred and his family moved to Cortes Island full-time in the summer of 2004. Fred has been a woodworker for about 20 years, building homes as well as working with re-claimed, eastern, and 19th century wood. Much of his building experience is in designing and building furniture, and he hopes to continue this, incorporating West Coast wood into his designs. Fred's interests include the environmental and historical aspects of the forests on Cortes. Currently, Fred and his family are building a small home on the island. Fred has a strong vision of helping to create a woodworking co-op on the island and is also hoping to use his many skills to assist CES in any way he can.
Bruce Ellingsen, DirectorPresently a sawmiller and a farmer of fruit , Bruce hails from the first European family to settle on Cortes Island. He has a degree, from UBC, in Business Administration. His experience in wood product industries include three years of logging/booming (including selective logging on his own property), seven years of sawmill operation and fourteen years of house construction. He has been actively involved in island politics since 1969, including a stint as Regional Director, the island's representative to local government. Bruce currently sits on the Advisory Planning Committee to the Regional Director and the Cortes Island Local Advisory Committee to the Klahoose First Nation Treaty Negotiation Process. He was Chair/Co-chair of the Cortes Island Forest Committee, the precursor to CES, from 1990 to 1996, and Treasurer from 1996-98. He was a founding member and Chairman of CES. His roots into the past put him in good stead with other long-time island residents; his vision for sustainable forestry on Cortes encompasses many generations to come.
Jody is the Ecosystem-Based Managment (EBM) and Conservation Science Advisor
for the Rainforest Solutions Project (RSP). She has worked as the Science
Coordinator for the Sierra Club of Canada, BC Chapter, and as the Conservation
Director and Executive Director of BC Wild. She has been involved with the
Canadian Rainforest Network, the BC Endangered Species Coalition and the
Grasslands Conservation Council. Jody currently sits on the board of the
Living Oceans Society and has an abiding interest in ensuring that conservation
planning and EBM encompass both the marine and terrestrial realms. In addition,
Jody sits on the board of the Hollyhock Leadership Institute and is deeply
committed to creating sustainability in the lives of activists working for
social change.
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Judy
Holmes, Director