Meet Our Executive & Board Of Directors
CIF-IFC National Executive
The CIF-IFC Executive (President, Vice President, 2nd Vice President and Past President) provides leadership to the CIF-IFC Board of Directors, and oversees CIF-IFC operations, major decision-making, needs and concerns.
About Brad
About Doug
Doug has been an active member of the CIF since 2006, when he was warmly welcomed by the Northwestern Ontario Section as a new guy in town. Doug is the Boreal Silviculture Research Scientist at the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry’s Centre for Northern Forest Ecosystem Research. His research work has covered a broad range of topics from tree physiology to caribou habitat interactions, and currently focuses on remote sensing approaches to monitoring regeneration and silviculture. Doug served as Chair and Director of his Section between 2010 and 2018 and has been an active member of the National Membership Committee since 2017, acting as co-chair with the current Past President for the last two years.
Doug’s involvement in the CIF, through organizing and participating in events and workshops, has allowed him to experience many informative and exciting interactions with other members of our profession from a wide range of backgrounds. These interactions are critical to developing professional and personal relationships within the local community of forest practitioners, as well as across Canada. Doug believes strongly in the Institute and has been happy to volunteer his time whenever opportunities arise to bring people together who have a shared interest in forestry and forest management.
Doug has also been fortunate to get to know many young professionals through his CIF involvement as they worked through their academic programs and moved on to challenging and exciting careers in forestry and forest science. These people are the future of our Institute, and now more than ever Doug is committed to working to improve how we connect with students and young professionals. They will be responsible for sustainably managing our Canadian forests for many years to come. Meaningful efforts to improve retention of current members and recruitment of new members are key priorities Doug plans to continue working on. Together, we will find new and better ways to provide meaningful value to forest practitioners from across the many disciplines involved in managing forests sustainably.
About Loni
Loni has proudly been a member of the CIF for over a decade. She started out as a student liaison for the Vancouver Island Section while in school to be a forest technician. In Ontario she became the secretary and then chair of the Central Ontario Section (COS). She has sat on various committees, including the National Awards Committee and the Forestry Chronicle Task Force, and worked diligently to take the National Conference to the COS prior to its cancellation due to COVID-19.
In addition to her volunteering, she also worked at CIF headquarters in Mattawa where she observed and participated in the daily workings of the national office. After her internship completed, she was one of the first forest technicians hired under the newly created CIF-SEEK. During this time, she became aware that most parties (industry, academia, NGOs, Indigenous) want the same thing (sustainable forestry that provides value to stakeholders) but never seem to be speaking the same language. She completed a bachelor’s degree in professional communications as a way of positioning herself to bridge this gap.
Outside of the CIF, Loni has spent most of her time working in the public service. She has been fortunate enough to work for Natural Resources Canada, Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, and BC’s Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resources and Rural Development. As with many professionals in the sector, her career has comprised a series of contracts, extensions, and acting assignments. Loni has recently returned to Vancouver and is a new member of that section.
About Richard
Richard Dominy moved to central Alberta from the United Kingdom at 5 years of age. He studied Forestry at the University of Alberta and returned to complete his MBA / MF degrees in Edmonton in 1999.
He relocated to British Columbia in 1981, commencing his career with the BC Forest Service in Cranbrook. He has worked in most operational forestry disciplines spanning a 36 year career – from Invermere to Prince George and finally to Victoria in 2008.
He is passionate about community service having spent time with the Royal Canadian Legion, the Kinsmen Club of Canada, and President of the Strawberry-Vale Community Association in Saanich (a municipality of Greater Victoria). Currently Richard is President of the BC Forest History Association. Richard has also been a longstanding CIF-IFC member; his passion for the CIF-IFC started during his undergraduate at the University of Alberta with the Rocky Mountain Section, and continued as an active member while working in British Columbia, before becoming Director and Chair of the Vancouver Island Section.
In his free time Richard loves and is passionate for the outdoors and the environment. He enjoys hiking, kayaking, and has a great affinity for horses and dogs. He loves to travel, has large circle of friends worldwide, and is currently transitioning to a new phase in life of retirement.
CIF-IFC Board Of Directors
The CIF-IFC Board of Directors consists of representatives from our 19 regional Sections from across the country, and one International Section. The Board of Directors provides guidance to the Executive and actively voices questions, ideas and concerns to address the needs of both CIF-IFC members and the forest and natural resources sectors in Canada.
Vancouver Island
Director: Margaret Symon
Chair: Jillian MacDonald
Co-Chair: Corey Mathieson
Vancouver – South Coast
Director: Brian Boswell
Chair: Bill Bourgeois
Cariboo
Director: Nicholas Dormaar
Chair: Lisa Wood
Thompson Okanagan
N/A
Klondike
N/A
Rocky Mountain
Director: Bev Wilson
Chair: Hudson Foley
Saskatchewan
Director: Lorne Renouf
Chair: Jessica Randall
Manitoba
Director: Brad Epp
Southern Ontario
Director: Terry Schwan
Ottawa Valley
Director: Jim Farrell
Chair: Ken Farr
Algonquin
Director: Glen Prevost
Chair: Allison Winmill
Central Ontario
Director: Dr. Trevor Jones
Chair: Bob Elliot
Northwestern Ontario
Director: Brian Campbell
Chair: Ryan Wilkie
Northern Ontario
Director: Jim Duncan
Chair: Rob Galloway
Lake of the Woods
Director: Janet Lane
Chair: Julie Edwards
Orléans
Director: Pierre Fontaine
Maritimes
Director/Chair: Ed Czerwinski
Vice-Chair: James Broom
Newfoundland & Labrador
Chair: Joseph Bowden
1st Vice-Chair: Andrew Penney
International
Director: Geraint Richards