Darcy graduated from Selkirk College in 1985 and has 20+ years experience timber cruising for the Ministry of Forests, Consultants and Industry and has been an active member of SITCA since 1994. He has been employed by Atco Wood Products since 1991. He is a licensed Residue and Waste Surveyor and a Certified S100 instructor. He has spearheaded changes to the cruising manual with regard to the blowdown/windshear codes and Whitepine Algorithm.

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Brent Farrell, RFT

Brent Farrell graduated in 1982 from Selkirk College and has a diploma in Forest Resources Technology. He has 20+ years forestry experience having worked for forestry consultants in Nakusp, Smithers and Revelstoke, a Licensee in Williams Lake and the forest service in Salmon Arm, Merritt, Clearwater and Revelstoke. He has been employed by the MOF, Columbia Forest District, Revelstoke Office since January 1991, where his duties include check cruising, appraisal reviews, cutting permit and road permit preparation.

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Mike Pirnke, RFT

Mike has been actively involved in Forestry since 1984. Residing in Revelstoke Mike has worked Timber Cruising for consultants, Ministry of Forests as a Field operations Supervisor and recently as the Operations Technician for BCTS with the Revelstoke Field Team. During his years in forestry there has always been involvement with Timber Cruising, Check Cruising and Appraisals as part of his job function. Mike is also a licensed Residue & Waste Surveyor.

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Jeff Reyden

Jeff has been involved in the forest industry for ten years. He graduated from UBC with a Resource Management degree in 2000 and since then has been working and cruising in the Kootenay and Boundary districts for the Ministry, industry, and consultants. He has co-owned and operated Strathinnes Forestry Consultants in Nelson since 2004 with his friend Michael, and has been a member of SITCA since 2002. He also brings a little international experience, having timber cruised in Australia.

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Chris Armanini, RPF

Chris brings 10 yrs of experience working with the Forest Industry in the Southern Interior of BC. He graduated from UBC with a BSF degree in 1999 and has been a Registered Professional Forester since 2001. He has been employed with Tolko Industries Ltd since 1997, and has spent most of his time concentrated on Cutting Permit development and Operational Planning. Chris has been an active member of SITCA since 2000, and has extensive experience in cruise design and compilation, as well as the relationship between timber cruising and the appraisal system. He is currently the Appraisal Forester for Tolko's Okanagan Regional Woodlands in Lumby.

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Craig Shook, FIT

Craig graduated from UCC with a Bachelor of Natural Resource Science degree in 2000. Craig comes to the SITCA board with 10 years of industry experience working for a consultant and is currently employed with the Ministry of Forests in the Headwaters District. His career started in timber cruising and cutblock layout and now with Ministry of Forests, his main involvement is with check cruising and appraisal reviews.

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Rob Kitamura, RFT, ATE, Treasurer

Rob has been actively involved in the forest industry since 1996 and graduated from BCIT in 1997. He began cruising on Vancouver Island then moved back to Kamloops in the summer of 1997 to take a cruising position with Atlas Information Management. He has been with Atlas ever since and now manages various contracts as well as all of the cruising projects. Recently, Atlas Information Management bought out Coastfor Enterprises Inc. and Rob takes care of all of the compilations under the Coastfor Enterprises name.

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Jim McLean, RFT

Jim McLean graduated in 1980 from BCIT with a diploma in Forest Resources Technology. His career extends 25+ years, having started on the coast with a forestry consultant in Vancouver. After 11 years of camp work and tents he went to work with the Forest Service in 100 Mile House where he continues to reside. Jim was previously involved with SITCA, as a Director in 2002-2004. The majority of his experience has involved timber cruising of sorts, including inventory, operational and check cruising. Jim has an Interior scaling licence and is additionally involved in Residue and Waste.

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Shawn Rolston, RFT, ATE

Shawn started working in the forest industry in 1992 working on the road building side of forest development. In 1999 he started working in Terrace as an forest engineer and in 2001 graduated from Selkirk College with a diploma in Forest Technology. Shawn then moved to the Queen Charlotte Islands, where he worked for Husby Forest Products as an engineer and later as a head cruiser acquiring his CGNF skills. After spending over 4 years in the Charlottes, Shawn returned to the Shuswap area and is now the cruising, compilation, VRI, and appraisal specialist for Forsite Consultants in Salmon Arm. He still actively cruises for both coastal and interior clients and has gained his CGNF certification from Mike Fall.