Lisa Helmer

Lisa is the Executive Director, Collaborative Stewardship and Cumulative Effects Management Branch with the Province of BC, where she oversees the provincial cumulative effects framework, collaborative stewardship Forums, guardian programs and biodiversity assessment.

Lisa joined the Province in 2006 as Head of Biological and Evaluation Services with the Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation (HCTF). Prior to joining the Province, Lisa lived and worked in the Sea to Sky Region, as Habitat Biologist and Birkenhead River Hatchery Manager for the Department of Fisheries & Oceans, and spent several years with the BC Wildlife Federation leading the BC Wetlands Education Program, and the BC Conservation Corps in Northwest BC. Lisa has had the privilege of working in collaborative partnership with BC First Nations and community-based organizations since her first summer field job in 1995 as a Fish & Wildlife Technician under Forest Renewal BC, conducting watershed assessments with Lil’Wat Nation. Lisa is a fifth-generation potato farmer (Helmer’s Organic Farm) from the Pemberton Valley and holds a BSc. (Fish & Wildlife Management) from UNBC.