Our Board of Directors
Executive
Bud Sabiston
Chair
A work-to-live lifestyle has led Bud through a variety of occupations, including road construction, woodworker, ranch hand, saltwater fishing guide, and deckhand with the Canadian Coast Guard. He eventually spent 28 years with BC Ferries, working up and down the coast as a deckhand, in terminal operations, and ultimately as an Instructional Designer in Information Technology. Exploring and fly fishing have been the catalysts for accessing remote areas throughout Canada's territories, as well as regions of Mexico and Belize, over the past 40 years.
Lawrence Statland
Treasurer
Lawrence has spent much of his life involved in music and finance. Lately he has been spending much of his time outside volunteering on restoration projects. Many afternoons he can be found in Rithet’s Bog working as part of the Rithet’s Bog Conservation Society. He also dedicates time as a director on the boards of numerous other local non-profit organizations. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy and a Master of Environmental Studies.
Shawn Stebbins
Past Chair
With a background spanning three decades among commercial fisheries, Shawn has devoted 25 years to improving resource sustainability through effective fisheries monitoring and management. Since helping to develop BC’s world-class groundfish fisheries monitoring program, Shawn has worked closely with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the International Pacific Halibut Commission, the Environmental Defense Fund, and a varied portfolio of commercial fisheries, regulators, and NGOs to develop and support sustainable seafood initiatives around the world.
Kitty Lloyd
Secretary
Kitty recently retired from the Capital Regional District, where she coordinated community stewardship initiatives on the Gorge Waterway, Esquimalt Lagoon and Bowker Creek. Prior to that she was a kelp farmer, marine biologist and educator in Bamfield, and a naturalist on sailboats doing multi-day trips along the BC and southeast Alaska coasts. Her other passions include native plants, ecological restoration, gardening and helping restore a classic 31-foot sailboat.
Directors at large