Meet Your Regional Organizers
Mar 17, 2026
Hiring Regional Organizers was one of your top priorities coming out of the 2025 workshop.
We have brought on a few part-time helpers to make your regional goals a reality:
- Lauren Chrobot joins the team as the Skeena Regional Organizer to coordinate events in the northwest;
- Colin Rossiter is supporting Northeast operations; and
- Brandon Geldart is helping out in the Omineca region.
The role of each regional team is to communicate regularly on projects, identify successes and learnings, identify gaps and seek support to address the gaps, and address other practical needs as identified by the team.
Meet the Organizers:
Lauren has a background in focusing on restoration of forest values and wildlife management. She lives and works in the beautiful Bulkley Valley, on Wet’suwet’en territory, as the Skeena Restoration Community of Practice Organizer for SERNbc and as a silviculture forest tech for a local company. In her spare time, she loves fishing, gardening, and spending time with her friends and family.
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Colin is a wildlife ecologist and fisheries biologist with over 15 years of experience working across northern and coastal ecosystems in Canada and Australia. His work spans watershed restoration, fish habitat assessment, wildlife monitoring, marine–terrestrial systems, and Indigenous stewardship initiatives.
Connect with Colin through email:
Brandon is a project coordinator for SERNbc as well as an owner of Ironwood Resource Professionals. With more than 15 years in the forest sector, his experience spans the full spectrum of forestry work—from tree planting, silviculture surveying, block and road layout, timber cruising, harvest operations planning, supervision of harvesting, layout, brushing and road maintenance crews. In recent years, he has focused on ecosystem restoration, leading projects on moose habitat enhancement, caribou habitat recovery, road restoration and riparian area planting.
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If your organization would like to be on the CoP organizing team, please get in touch with one of us through our organizations, or reach out to Mae directly.
The Community of Practice Organizing Team, representing: Society for Ecosystem Restoration in Northern BC (SERNbc), Caribou Habitat Restoration Fund (CHRF) via the Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation (HCTF), Fish & Wildlife Compensation Program (FWCP), and the BC Wildlife Federation (BCWF).
