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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The Oldman Watershed Council Board of Directors is comprised of 13 representatives from various organizations and 4 members at large. If there are any issues that you would like discussed at the meetings, contact Leta at
leta@oldmanbasin.org at least two weeks prior to a meeting. The current Board includes the following members, each serving a 2-year term:
ORGANIZATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES
INDUSTRY
Vacant
MUNICIPALITIES
Barbara Lacey
Barbara was born and educated in Britain and qualified as a Medical Practitioner in London, England. She immigrated to Canada in 1968 with her husband and two children and settled in Lethbridge. Barbara worked first as a Family Physician and then as the Medical Officer of Health for the City. Following her retirement in 1995, she was elected to City Council and is now serving her fourth term. Barbara is also a Board Member of St. Michael's Health Centre and the Oldman River Watershed Council.
Terry Kerkhoff
Terry was born and raised in Taber, AB and so has been a southern Alberta boy from the start. A graduate of St. Mary’s High School in Taber, he received two degrees from the University of Lethbridge. He was a school principal in Picture Butte and Coaldale for 26 years and finished his career as Curriculum and Instruction Coordinator for Holy Spirit Regional Catholic Schools. Terry retired in 2004 and continues to live in Picture Butte with his wife Barb. Since then he has been a Sessional/Term Instructor for the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge. Also upon retirement, he became involved in municipal politics in Picture Butte and was elected to town council in the fall of 2004. He was subsequently elected Mayor of Picture Butte in October/07. His position of Mayor then brought him to the Mayors/Reeves Association of Southwest Alberta. The association appointed Terry to represent them on the Oldman Watershed Council.
HEALTH
Sean Robison
Sean was raised in Taber and he completed a Bachelor of Environmental Science from the University of Lethbridge in 2000. He continued his education at Concordia University College of Alberta in Edmonton with a focus in Environmental Health. Sean received his designation as a Certified Public Health Inspector with the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors in 2002. His first position as a Health Inspector was with the Calgary Health Region. In 2003 he took a position as a Health Inspector with Chinook Health and has been working in the Lethbridge area for the last 5 years. Recently, Sean accepted a term position with Chinook Health as Public Health Drinking Water Officer. Sean will be spending the next 2 years auditing drinking water systems in the Chinook Health Region.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Shane Petry
Shane has held several different positions in the resource management and biology fields. He has attended schools in Alberta, British Columbia and Manitoba. Shane spent time as a resource manager and land use/forestry officer for the northern Yukon (Dawson City) before moving to Ottawa and taking a position with the operations and policy group in the Habitat branch of Fisheries and Oceans Canada in 2000. Following that, Shane moved his family back to Lethbridge and is currently the senior impact assessment biologist for the Lethbridge District of Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
Cheryl Dash
Cheryl is currently Team Leader for the Environmental Awareness Team in Environmental Management with Alberta Environment (AENV), Southern Region. She has been involved with the Oldman River Basin Water Quality Initiative since 1996 and helped to transition the Initiative into an official not-for-profit organization - The Oldman Watershed Council. She was a member of the Milk River Watershed Council Canada during its development. She is involved with several projects including the Prairie Conservation Forum, South Saskatchewan River Basin Water Management Plan and Environmental Education Initiatives in southern Alberta. Cheryl has a background in physical geography, biological sciences and early childhood development.
Andrea Kalischuk
Andrea is a Section Lead with the Resource Sciences Branch of Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development. She coordinates and manages applied research and scientific initiatives to: identify and assess agri-environmental risks to water quality; demonstrate and verify agricultural Beneficial Management Practices (BMPs) that will mitigate environmental risks; and she promotes the sustainable development of Alberta’s agriculture industry to improve the competitive capacity of agricultural producers. Andrea currently leads the provincial Nutrient BMP Evaluation Project team, a group that is tasked with evaluating BMPs at the watershed scale to determine the environmental and economical costs and benefits. Andrea has worked in the areas of instream flow needs for riparian vegetation, weed biological control, and water quality.
ACADEMIA
Andy Hurly
Andy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Lethbridge where he has taught and conducted research since 1991. His research interests involve two areas - animal behaviour and ecosystem ecology. Andy's interests in ecosystem ecology concern the health of bird and plant communities and how they are affected by activities such as cattle grazing and alterations to river flow. Andy and his wife and live on the banks of the Oldman River near Ft. Macleod, and thus he is interested in maintaining a healthy and economically viable river ecosystem for himself and his neighbours.
NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
Don Watson
Currently, Don is employed as the Head of Habitat Retention, Alberta, Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC). Don has worked for over 24 years with non-government and government agencies and has worked as a field biologist for DUC in the Bow River, Cypress Hills, Clear Lake and Milk River Ridge landscapes. Don has volunteered with the Breeding Bird Survey, TD/Canada Trust Friends of Environment advisory board in Lethbridge and is a long standing volunteer for the Ducks Unlimited Lethbridge Chapter. Don has recently been elected to the Board of the Milk River Watershed Council Canada.
Cheryl Fujikawa
Cheryl's training is in medical science, microbiology, zoology and botany. She came to Lethbridge in 1978, and currently is teaching at Lethbridge Community College. She has also worked for the University of Lethbridge, the Provincial Government, the University of Alberta, CUSO and for Alberta Environment. Cheryl has been a member of the Southern Alberta Group for the Environment for 12 years.
IRRIGATION SECTOR
Ron Renwick
Ron received his degree in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan in 1972. . He started working for the SMRID in 1983 as their District Engineer and has been their General Manager since 2002. He has a strong interest in Water Management Issues on the Southern Tributaries and manages to find time to ski in the Waterton back country almost every weekend throughout the winter.
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS
Bruce Konynenbelt
Bruce and his two sons have a hog grower/finisher operation and also background 4,000 calves a year on the farm at Nobleford where he was born and raised. He has been a director of Alberta Pork Producers for 5 years and one of his roles is chairman of the Sustainable Environment Committee.
FIRST NATIONS
Vacant
MEMBERS AT LARGE
Anne Stevick
Anne was born and raised in the Trout Creek Watershed, in the Porcupine Hills, West of Clarseholm. She and her husband now ranch 17 miles S.E. of Pincher Creek, within the Pincher Creek Watershed. Anne is keenly aware of the importance of water to agriculture, and sits as an Alberta Beef Producer delegate on the Environment and Animal Welfare Committee. She has also served 9 years on the Pincher Creek Chamber of Economic Development, and the Cowboy Poetry Committee of the Agricultural Society, and has worked on the “Blueweed Pull” put on by the Pincher Creek Watershed Group. Anne has her B.Sc. in Zoology and worked as a Park Interpreter in Waterton Park, before taking on her lifelong passion of ranching.
Glen French
Glen was born and raised in South West Alberta and has lived in the Crowsnest Pass for the last 30 years. He has spent the last 7 years working with various user groups to develop a sustainable trail system in southwest Alberta that recognizes the needs of the environment while meeting the needs of industry, recreation, and community. Currently, Glen sits on the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass Subdivision and Development Commission, the Alberta Recreation Corridors Coordinating Committee, the Rocky Mountain Snowmobile Association, is the Presidents of Crowsnest Pass Quad Squad, Advisor to Alberta Off Highway Vehicle Association, Director of Crow Snow Riders Snowmobile Club and a member of the Hillcrest Fish and Game Protective Society.
Gerhardt Hartman
Gerhardt was born in 1940, in LaFleche, SK. He graduated from High School in 1957 and received his Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan in 1961. He has been involved in soil and water conservation and farm irrigation most of his career. He retired in 1997.
Lorne Fitch
Lorne grew up on a mixed farm in west central Alberta. He pursued a career as a fish and wildlife biologist for 35 years, working mostly in Alberta but also in western Canada and with some international experience. His interest in the aims and objectives of the Oldman Watershed Council include being a landowner, with property near the headwaters of the basin and, as a citizen concerned about the future of the watershed. Lorne holds a position with the Cows and Fish program as the Provincial Riparian Specialist, and is also an Adjunct Professor with the University of Calgary. Lethbridge is his home base.
ORGANIZATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES
INDUSTRY
Vacant
MUNICIPALITIES
Barbara Lacey
Barbara was born and educated in Britain and qualified as a Medical Practitioner in London, England. She immigrated to Canada in 1968 with her husband and two children and settled in Lethbridge. Barbara worked first as a Family Physician and then as the Medical Officer of Health for the City. Following her retirement in 1995, she was elected to City Council and is now serving her fourth term. Barbara is also a Board Member of St. Michael's Health Centre and the Oldman River Watershed Council.
Terry Kerkhoff
Terry was born and raised in Taber, AB and so has been a southern Alberta boy from the start. A graduate of St. Mary’s High School in Taber, he received two degrees from the University of Lethbridge. He was a school principal in Picture Butte and Coaldale for 26 years and finished his career as Curriculum and Instruction Coordinator for Holy Spirit Regional Catholic Schools. Terry retired in 2004 and continues to live in Picture Butte with his wife Barb. Since then he has been a Sessional/Term Instructor for the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge. Also upon retirement, he became involved in municipal politics in Picture Butte and was elected to town council in the fall of 2004. He was subsequently elected Mayor of Picture Butte in October/07. His position of Mayor then brought him to the Mayors/Reeves Association of Southwest Alberta. The association appointed Terry to represent them on the Oldman Watershed Council.
HEALTH
Sean Robison
Sean was raised in Taber and he completed a Bachelor of Environmental Science from the University of Lethbridge in 2000. He continued his education at Concordia University College of Alberta in Edmonton with a focus in Environmental Health. Sean received his designation as a Certified Public Health Inspector with the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors in 2002. His first position as a Health Inspector was with the Calgary Health Region. In 2003 he took a position as a Health Inspector with Chinook Health and has been working in the Lethbridge area for the last 5 years. Recently, Sean accepted a term position with Chinook Health as Public Health Drinking Water Officer. Sean will be spending the next 2 years auditing drinking water systems in the Chinook Health Region.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Shane Petry
Shane has held several different positions in the resource management and biology fields. He has attended schools in Alberta, British Columbia and Manitoba. Shane spent time as a resource manager and land use/forestry officer for the northern Yukon (Dawson City) before moving to Ottawa and taking a position with the operations and policy group in the Habitat branch of Fisheries and Oceans Canada in 2000. Following that, Shane moved his family back to Lethbridge and is currently the senior impact assessment biologist for the Lethbridge District of Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
Cheryl Dash
Cheryl is currently Team Leader for the Environmental Awareness Team in Environmental Management with Alberta Environment (AENV), Southern Region. She has been involved with the Oldman River Basin Water Quality Initiative since 1996 and helped to transition the Initiative into an official not-for-profit organization - The Oldman Watershed Council. She was a member of the Milk River Watershed Council Canada during its development. She is involved with several projects including the Prairie Conservation Forum, South Saskatchewan River Basin Water Management Plan and Environmental Education Initiatives in southern Alberta. Cheryl has a background in physical geography, biological sciences and early childhood development.
Andrea Kalischuk
Andrea is a Section Lead with the Resource Sciences Branch of Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development. She coordinates and manages applied research and scientific initiatives to: identify and assess agri-environmental risks to water quality; demonstrate and verify agricultural Beneficial Management Practices (BMPs) that will mitigate environmental risks; and she promotes the sustainable development of Alberta’s agriculture industry to improve the competitive capacity of agricultural producers. Andrea currently leads the provincial Nutrient BMP Evaluation Project team, a group that is tasked with evaluating BMPs at the watershed scale to determine the environmental and economical costs and benefits. Andrea has worked in the areas of instream flow needs for riparian vegetation, weed biological control, and water quality.
ACADEMIA
Andy Hurly
Andy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Lethbridge where he has taught and conducted research since 1991. His research interests involve two areas - animal behaviour and ecosystem ecology. Andy's interests in ecosystem ecology concern the health of bird and plant communities and how they are affected by activities such as cattle grazing and alterations to river flow. Andy and his wife and live on the banks of the Oldman River near Ft. Macleod, and thus he is interested in maintaining a healthy and economically viable river ecosystem for himself and his neighbours.
NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
Don Watson
Currently, Don is employed as the Head of Habitat Retention, Alberta, Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC). Don has worked for over 24 years with non-government and government agencies and has worked as a field biologist for DUC in the Bow River, Cypress Hills, Clear Lake and Milk River Ridge landscapes. Don has volunteered with the Breeding Bird Survey, TD/Canada Trust Friends of Environment advisory board in Lethbridge and is a long standing volunteer for the Ducks Unlimited Lethbridge Chapter. Don has recently been elected to the Board of the Milk River Watershed Council Canada.
Cheryl Fujikawa
Cheryl's training is in medical science, microbiology, zoology and botany. She came to Lethbridge in 1978, and currently is teaching at Lethbridge Community College. She has also worked for the University of Lethbridge, the Provincial Government, the University of Alberta, CUSO and for Alberta Environment. Cheryl has been a member of the Southern Alberta Group for the Environment for 12 years.
IRRIGATION SECTOR
Ron Renwick
Ron received his degree in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan in 1972. . He started working for the SMRID in 1983 as their District Engineer and has been their General Manager since 2002. He has a strong interest in Water Management Issues on the Southern Tributaries and manages to find time to ski in the Waterton back country almost every weekend throughout the winter.
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS
Bruce Konynenbelt
Bruce and his two sons have a hog grower/finisher operation and also background 4,000 calves a year on the farm at Nobleford where he was born and raised. He has been a director of Alberta Pork Producers for 5 years and one of his roles is chairman of the Sustainable Environment Committee.
FIRST NATIONS
Vacant
MEMBERS AT LARGE
Anne Stevick
Anne was born and raised in the Trout Creek Watershed, in the Porcupine Hills, West of Clarseholm. She and her husband now ranch 17 miles S.E. of Pincher Creek, within the Pincher Creek Watershed. Anne is keenly aware of the importance of water to agriculture, and sits as an Alberta Beef Producer delegate on the Environment and Animal Welfare Committee. She has also served 9 years on the Pincher Creek Chamber of Economic Development, and the Cowboy Poetry Committee of the Agricultural Society, and has worked on the “Blueweed Pull” put on by the Pincher Creek Watershed Group. Anne has her B.Sc. in Zoology and worked as a Park Interpreter in Waterton Park, before taking on her lifelong passion of ranching.
Glen French
Glen was born and raised in South West Alberta and has lived in the Crowsnest Pass for the last 30 years. He has spent the last 7 years working with various user groups to develop a sustainable trail system in southwest Alberta that recognizes the needs of the environment while meeting the needs of industry, recreation, and community. Currently, Glen sits on the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass Subdivision and Development Commission, the Alberta Recreation Corridors Coordinating Committee, the Rocky Mountain Snowmobile Association, is the Presidents of Crowsnest Pass Quad Squad, Advisor to Alberta Off Highway Vehicle Association, Director of Crow Snow Riders Snowmobile Club and a member of the Hillcrest Fish and Game Protective Society.
Gerhardt Hartman
Gerhardt was born in 1940, in LaFleche, SK. He graduated from High School in 1957 and received his Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan in 1961. He has been involved in soil and water conservation and farm irrigation most of his career. He retired in 1997.
Lorne Fitch
Lorne grew up on a mixed farm in west central Alberta. He pursued a career as a fish and wildlife biologist for 35 years, working mostly in Alberta but also in western Canada and with some international experience. His interest in the aims and objectives of the Oldman Watershed Council include being a landowner, with property near the headwaters of the basin and, as a citizen concerned about the future of the watershed. Lorne holds a position with the Cows and Fish program as the Provincial Riparian Specialist, and is also an Adjunct Professor with the University of Calgary. Lethbridge is his home base.
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