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Professional Accountability
Professional judgment, transparent assumptions, and defensible documentation are built into the work from scoping through final reporting.
About SylvaStep
A focused technical practice built on professional accountability.
SylvaStep helps communities, governments, land managers, partner firms, and organizations make defensible land-risk decisions using forestry, applied biology, GIS, LiDAR, remote sensing, wildfire science, and environmental data analysis.
Our practice
What SylvaStep does.
We help clients make defensible decisions about land, wildfire, biodiversity, restoration, infrastructure, and environmental change.
SylvaStep combines professional forestry and applied biology judgment with GIS, LiDAR, remote sensing, drone/RPAS data, wildfire science, and environmental data analysis.
Our work turns complex landscape information into clear maps, models, monitoring frameworks, technical reports, and decision-support workflows that clients can use for planning, stewardship, resilience, and investment decisions.
Based in British Columbia, working across borders. SylvaStep Solutions Inc. is a Canadian consultancy. Principal Consultant Zoltan Mityok works between Melbourne and Vancouver, supporting Canadian and selected international engagements.
Core values
What guides the work.
SylvaStep’s work is guided by professional accountability, evidence-based analysis, and practical outcomes that clients can understand, defend, and act on.
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Evidence-Based Insights
Spatial, ecological, forestry, wildfire, and environmental datasets are interpreted carefully so clients can see what the evidence supports — and what it does not.
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Practical Outcomes
The goal is not just analysis. SylvaStep produces maps, reports, workflows, and recommendations that help clients prioritize action and communicate decisions clearly.
Principal Consultant & Founder
Zoltan Mityok
Technical authority for SylvaStep’s forestry, biology, wildfire, GIS, LiDAR, remote sensing, RPAS, and environmental-data work.
Zoltan Mityok is the founder and Principal Consultant of SylvaStep Solutions. He is a Registered Professional Forester, Registered Professional Biologist, Articling Agrologist, ISA Certified Arborist, Advanced RPAS pilot, and member of Forestry Australia.
With more than a decade of experience in forestry and environmental consulting, Zoltan combines field-based knowledge with GIS, LiDAR, remote sensing, drone data, wildfire modelling, forest carbon, and geospatial automation. His work helps communities, governments, stewardship organizations, and resource-sector clients interpret complex environmental information and make practical, defensible land decisions.
Zoltan is also undertaking doctoral research at the University of Melbourne focused on biodiversity, ecosystem services, livelihoods, and environmental governance in Palawan, Philippines.
- Wildfire, fuels & resilience assessment
- Forestry, biology & ecological interpretation
- GIS, LiDAR, remote sensing & RPAS workflows
- Credentials
- RPF, RPBio, AAg, ISA Certified Arborist®
- Certification
- Advanced RPAS Drone Pilot
- Affiliations
- UBC / MIFA / Forestry Australia / Doctoral researcher, University of Melbourne
- Based
- Melbourne, Australia / Vancouver, BC Canada
Commercial Partner
Michael Mityok
Business development, proposal coordination, partner outreach, website positioning, and commercial systems for SylvaStep.
Michael Mityok is SylvaStep’s Commercial Partner, supporting business development, market positioning, proposals, partnerships, and commercial operations.
He holds a BA in English Literature and a BEd in Secondary Education from the University of British Columbia. Michael is the owner and principal of ACE Education Group and its subsidiary, Vancouver Debate Academy, bringing extensive experience across education entrepreneurship, edtech, communications, program development, team leadership, and business operations.
At SylvaStep, Michael helps translate its technical capabilities into clear client-facing language, identify suitable opportunities, coordinate proposals, and build organized relationships with clients and delivery partners.
- Business development & proposal coordination
- Website, communications & market positioning
- Partner outreach & commercial systems
- Role
- Value Commercial Partner
- Education
- BA English Literature; BEd Secondary Education — University of British Columbia
- Business
- Owner/operator of ACE Education and Vancouver Debate Academy
- Focus
- Business development, proposals, partnerships, and commercial operations
How we work
A focused core, supported by trusted collaborators.
SylvaStep is built as a focused technical practice that can scale with the work, drawing on collaborators and specialist partners when project scope requires additional capacity or local expertise.
A lean core keeps SylvaStep accountable, practical, and technically focused. Zoltan Mityok leads the technical work, while Michael Mityok supports business development, proposal coordination, partner outreach, and commercial systems.
Where a project requires additional capacity, local presence, or complementary expertise, SylvaStep works with aligned collaborators and partner firms while maintaining clear roles, transparent methods, and defensible outputs.