Technical consulting for defensible land decisions from complex environmental data.

This work helped answer a practical forest-health question: where was pest-related damage most severe, and was there a detectable pattern across the managed forest? The analysis showed that impacts were widespread but uneven, giving managers a clearer basis for follow-up field checks and planning.

Results — Built a budworm outbreak severity map for the Cheakamus Community Forest. Converted satellite-based canopy anomaly mapping into stand-level forest-health summaries. Reviewed 5,067 forest stands to identify high-severity and low-severity patterns. Found that roughly 250 flagged stands were weakly related to stand age and not strongly explained by elevation alone.

This work turned a broad Himalayan landscape-restoration idea into a practical pilot-project package. The results are a set of working documents and evidence products that outline the main project plan, goals, rationale, technical methodology, MRV approach, budget workbook, and field-data collection plan.

Results — Ridge-to-valley restoration design showing the project as a connected landscape from forest and slopes to farms and water systems. Theory of change connecting ecological restoration to livelihood benefits. Monitoring framework showing how biodiversity, soil, water, and agroforestry outcomes can be tracked over time. Project evidence package prepared to support future scale-up, partner review, or carbon-finance readiness.