Alison Beal
Board Member
Alison M. Beal is the former executive director of the Fur Institute of Canada (1991-2000), in that capacity developing strong working relationships with the trapping community, including First Nations, across Canada; she has a strong background on local, national and international issues related to trapping, trapline management, humane trap research and development, and the establishment of international humane trap standards.
Alison has served on the board of directors of the BC Wildlife Federation, the BC Trappers Association, and was a founding director of the Canadian Outdoors Heritage Alliance. In addition, she has worked cooperatively with the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission, and the governments of Yukon, BC, and NWT.
Alison is a communicator with long experience in helping scientists, consumptive users of natural resources, and politicians develop and share information and strategies on maintaining balance and integrity when dealing with controversy. She has long experience researching, writing and creating layout for popular articles, newsletters, brochures, annual reports and promotional material having to do with, trapping, trapping technologies and various contentious issues related to consumptive use. Her quarterly commentary on related issues appears in several publications.
Ms. Beal is the designer and a co-author (with Dr. David F. Hatler), of the 2003 edition of BC’s Furbearer Management Guidelines directed to trappers, resource managers, foresters and other stakeholders.
In addition, she is co-author (again with Dr. Hatler) and designer of the British Columbia Trapper Education Manual and the Alberta Trapper Education Manual. She is also most recently a co-author of of Carnivores of British Columbia (RBCM, UBC Press, Hatler, Nagorsen, Beal).
Through her work, Alison has established a respected profile with the Ministry of Environment , numerous NGOs, and political figures at both the provincial and federal level.
Alison resides in Telkwa, British Columbia, with her husband Dave Hatler.