EC 2025 – 2026 Directors List
Bill Henwood spent his 36-year career as a protected areas planner and project manager, the last 28 years with Parks Canada establishing new national parks and national marine conservation areas (NMCAs), including Gulf Islands National Park Reserve and as Project Manager for the feasibility study to create an NMCA in the southern Strait of Georgia in the Salish Sea. He has worked internationally through the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), founding the Specialist Group on Grassland Protected Areas. Following retirement in 2011, Mr. Henwood has worked on protected area and land use issues in Caribbean small island states, having worked in The Bahamas, Jamaica, Haiti, St Lucia and Antigua and Barbuda.
Secretary – Mel Turner
Mel worked with BC Parks for 30 years starting as a research officer. He prepared some 75 park and ecological proposals and 75 management plans for BC’s protected area system. More recently, he has worked on international, national, provincial and regional protected area projects.
Vice President – Nancy Wilkin
Nancy L. Wilkin retired Assistant Deputy Minister, Environmental Stewardship Division, Ministry of Environment (October, 2008) and retired Director of Sustainability from Royal Roads University. (March 31st, 2018). Read more here.
Bev enjoyed a career as park planner with Greater Vancouver Regional District; then over the past two decades as Board Director with BC Nature and Nature Vancouver. She and her husband volunteer as park hosts in Kakwa Provincial Park (northeast BC) and as Ecological Reserve Wardens for Fraser River Islands near Chilliwack.
Bob has devoted his life to the protection of the natural world and the sharing of his love for nature, both through his contributions as a volunteer and his work-related activities. As a result, Bob has been involved with conservation and education projects at the local, provincial, national and international level related to land-water use planning, grasslands conservation, climate change, park management, indigenous rights, and inspiring people to get outside and enjoy nature. Bob was the founding Chair of the Elders Council for Parks in BC. Bob’s main role is the Elders Archive Project at the University of Victoria. The goal of this project is to help ensure that key background material from individuals whose work was related to BC’s parks—federal, provincial, and regional—is professionally archived for research and public access, and not lost or discarded.
Director – Mark Haddock
Mark Haddock is a retired lawyer who practised environmental and natural resources law in BC for over 30 years. His practice included laws relating to parks and protected areas, wildlife and species at risk, land use, environmental assessment, forestry and other natural resources. He managed a BC Parks marine campsite construction project at Pitt Lake (Golden Ears and Pinecone Burke), and before law was a recreation planner and wildfire fighter with the BC Ministry of Forests.
Director – Colin Campbell
Colin Campbell holds a Master’s in Geography from the University of Aberdeen and a Ph.D. in Geography from Bristol University. His career includes serving as Assistant Professor of Recreation Geography at UVic, Head of Research for BC Parks, and Director of Planning during the province’s major park expansion in the 1990s. He has led significant public involvement processes, including the Parks Legacy Project and Project Pride. Colin has also held senior leadership roles in BC in heritage conservation, archaeology, and outdoor recreation. As Co-founder and Past Chair of the Elders Council for Parks in BC, he remains dedicated to ecological stewardship, park expansion, and public engagement and education.
Director – Tory Stevens
Tory Stevens is a retired BC Parks ecologist. She worked in landscape design with a focus on climate change and biodiversity conservation. Since retirement, she has volunteered her time at the local level, chairing the Resilient Saanich Technical Committee and a working group of the Victoria Grandmothers for Africa.