After serving as the Chief Forester with the Gorman Group in West Kelowna, Kerry has recently retired. Throughout his 30-year career, he has been involved in land management and conservation initiatives spanning from the deserts of Osoyoos to the Rocky Mountains near Revelstoke. He has held various committee and director roles with the Okanagan Basin Water Board, the Charles Bloom High School Forestry Program, the CORD Environmental Advisory Committee, and has also served as a Councillor with the BC Forest Professionals.

At the core, Kerry’s land ethic is grounded in his family roots of farming and small scale forestry operations.  This, combined with his open-minded and balanced approach to land management is key in bringing people together to build understanding and generate mutually beneficial, interest-based outcomes.

Retirement for Kerry is his opportunity to re-focus his energy into forest management of non-forested / semi-forested ecosystems.  Especially exciting is the opportunity to work with Indigenous Knowledge Keepers to rehabilitate and restore degraded ecosystems.