Chris Cole

Background

About Chris Cole

Over 30 years of industry and consulting experience working as a Professional Forester & Professional looking for investment property/homes to buy in Canada and the USA. Ideally a "fixer-upper with good bones and a great location". Prefer private deals with the opportunity for increased value after investment in renovations has been completed. Interests & Experience. Forestry Auditing, Watershed Management, Hydrology, Flood & Wildfire Hazard Mitigation, First Nations Emergency Management Programs Assistance, Forestry, Engineering and Steep Terrain Hazard Management, Forest Enhancement Planning, Contaminated Sites, Stream Crossings, Bridges, Roads, Retaining Walls, Stakeholder and Community Engagement, ToastMasters/Public Speaking. Interested in connecting to collaborate on watershed management planning & operational issues. Specifically, how to best manage watersheds for community drinking water production while managing and balancing all other watershed uses such as recreation, forestry, fish and wildlife habitat enhancement, flood hazard mitigation, climate change, etc. I have past experience managing both private forest land and crown land watersheds in BC Most recently, as the Manager of Forest Hydrology and Infrastructure for TimberWest, a private land and crown land forest management company on Vancouver Island. In this role, I worked with a wide variety of Forestry, Engineering, GeoScience, and Biology staff and the consulting community on managing steep terrain, community drinking water production, thousands of km's of roads, several hundred small watershed sub-basins for rate of harvest, road density and erosion control, flood mitigation, of bridge and culvert stream crossings, and fish and wildlife management objectives. This role also lead to countless community meetings, and stakeholder engagement meetings. I participated and played a lead role in many watershed advisory group meetings and watershed round table meetings. Previous consulting work focused on watershed assessment and rehabilitation prescriptions, road deactivation, stream restoration, major bridge design and construction, hydrology and ECA work, unstable terrain.