- Hometown:
- St. John’s, NL
- What conservation issue is closest to your heart?
- I’ve spent so much time in and around rivers so fluvial ecosystems are especially important to me, specifically the issues and pressures that our native fish species are facing.
- What are you hoping to learn from CCC?
- Ultimately, I think this experience will help clarify the direction I’d like my career/life to take by learning about different conservation initiatives across Canada. Meeting new people and being exposed to new perspectives is something I’m also looking forward to.
- Who/what inspired you to care about conservation?
- I think fly-fishing is where it started, but it wasn’t until I began volunteering with Trout Unlimited Canada and getting to know their biologists that I started to seriously consider conservation as something I could pursue.
- If you could sit down with anyone in the world and have tea or coffee, who would it be? And why?
- Although a stiff drink with D.B. Cooper is tempting, I would opt for Lee Wulff. His contributions to the sport of fly-fishing and fisheries conservation are seemingly endless but maybe most notably, he was a pioneer of catch and release angling. He helped establish and manage numerous environmental organizations and was one of the first people to advocate for the formation of Gros Morne National Park. He’s also an interesting character because as a Stanford engineering grad, he decided to instead pursue a career as an artist before shifting his focus to Atlantic salmon conservation. Above all else though, he was a legendary outdoorsman and the epitome of an environmental steward.
My Experience So Far
