Laurence Turney
Board President
Laurence is an RPBio who graduated from the University of Victoria in 1983 with a B.Sc. in zoology and has worked for consulting firms and government in a wide variety of disciplines and geographic areas. Early in his career he spent time in the Queen Charlotte Islands and Beaufort Sea working on seabirds and marine mammals. From 1986 to 1991, he worked for the Department of Renewable Resources in Yellowknife, NWT in the areas of policy and planning, land use planning and geographic information systems. While working for the Ministry of Environment, from 1991 to 1995, he spent time in the Queen Charlotte Islands as a Habitat Biologist and then in Terrace as a Forest Ecosystem Specialist. In 1996, he worked as a consulting biologist in Terrace and from 1998 to 2006 was owner of Ardea Biological Consulting, completing wildlife habitat assessments and Terrestrial Ecosystem Mapping projects as well as teaching wildlife courses for Northwest Community College. Currently Laurence works for Gartner Lee Limited, a medium-sized environmental consulting firm with offices across Canada.
Although he has only lived in Smithers since 2000, he has worked and played in the Bulkley Valley since 1986 and is very interested in ensuring that the people and places that make this place special are managed sustainably.