Brad Fairley previously served on the Canadian Wildlife Foundation’s Board of Trustees advising habitat restoration work streams. He is a Canadian water resources and habitat restoration leader with more than 40 years of experience across the public and private sectors. Brad is President of 5 Smooth Stones Restoration Inc. (Canada), a consultancy focused on protecting, enhancing, and restoring aquatic habitat while advancing the science and practice of stream restoration in Canada. Brad’s professional work sits at the intersection of water quality, watershed planning, fluvial geomorphology, stream restoration, habitat banking, and environmental advisory services. Over the past two decades, he has focused heavily on habitat and stream restoration, managing more than 100 fluvial
geomorphology and stream restoration projects across the United States and Canada. He established the first two fish habitat banks approved by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO). Brad funded a scholarship and travel prize for Graduate Students at McMaster University whose research focuses on Ecosystem Restoration. He also belongs to the steering committee of the Aquatic Habitat Canada and board of directors at the Canadian Branch of the International Erosion Control Association.
