Helmer, Lisa

Lisa Helmer leads the Collaborative Stewardship Framework for the Province of BC and is Co-Chair of the First Nations- BC Wildlife and Habitat Conservation Forum. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Fish & Wildlife Management from UNBC. Lisa has been working in collaboration with Indigenous Communities since her first summer field job as a Fish & Wildlife Technician under Forest Renewal BC in 1995, conducting watershed assessments with Lil’Wat Nation. Lisa ran her private consulting company out of Pemberton BC through the 2000’s, working with Department of Fisheries & Oceans (DFO), local/regional governments in the Sea to Sky Region, the Resort Municipality of Whistler, the BC Wildlife Federation, the Creston Valley Wildlife Management Area, and the BC Conservation Corps in the Skeena. She was Director of Strategic Initiatives with FLNRO Skeena Region 2016-2019, where she led the Environmental Stewardship Initiative (ESI). She joined the BC Team in 2006 as Head of Biological and Evaluation Services with the Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation (HCTF). She is also a fifth-generation potato farmer from the Pemberton Valley. She has two kids (Maggie and Angus) with her husband.

Pemberton

Biologist
Wildlife preservation
Farmer

RAD, July 2008 version. Canadian Council of Archives.

Catalogued October 2022.

1) Archival material
2) https://www.firstnationsbcwildlifeforum.ca/about-us/meet-the-forum-leadership/