Brinkman, Dirk

Dirk Brinkman is the CEO of a reforestation company. He studied the Philosophy of Religion at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and came to BC in 1968. After a few years of lumberjacking, he and a group of friends won one of the first tree-planting contracts in Canada. co-founder, Joyce Murray, incoporated Brinkman and Associates Reforestation Ltd. in 1979. Brinkman and his company have planted over a billion trees since 1970. Dirk has received several awards, including the Canada Forestry Achievement Award and an honourary membership to the Association of BC Forest Professionals. He was also appointed as a Director to the HEDC Natural Resources Board and to the Heiltsuk Resource Operations Board. Dirk is the co-founder and a Director of The Earth Partners LP which specializes in large scale forest and ecosystem restoration conservation biomass projects in the US.

Grand Rapids, MI
British Columbia

Reforestation

1) https://www.brinkman.ca/about
2) https://www.brinkmanreforestation.ca/who-we-are
3) https://www.brinkmanearthsystems.com/dirk-brinkman
4) https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirk-brinkman-15b2196/?originalSubdomain=ca

RAD, July 2008 version. Canadian Council of Archives.

Revised May 4, 2020.