Wildsight Board of Directors
Baiba Morrow
Regional Director
Baiba Morrow has navigated much of her working life as a freelance writer, photographer, and dabbler in documentary film making. In partnership with her husband, Pat Morrow, she has travelled the mountain world extensively, especially the Himalayan region. She is particularly proud of their 2005 award-winning documentary, The Magic Mountain, which was shot in Ladakh, in northern India.
Bruce Fairley
Treasurer
Bruce Fairley is a lawyer in private practice. He has lived in the Columbia Valley since 1988 and has acted as counsel for Wildsight on a number of occasions, as well as for the Environmental Mining Council of B.C. and The Alpine Club of Canada. His chief environmental interests are the protection of wilderness, wildlife and water resources.
Darcy Monchak
Regional Director
It’s been a few decades now since Darcy spent half his net worth purchasing topographic maps of the upper Columbia area. The intrigue that those maps created - of what is out there - is still at hand. He has worked during that time out of Golden as a professional forester, involved with planning for environmental, recreational and timber forest values.
Joan Dolinsky
Secretary
Joan helped establish the Golden Branch of Wildsight in 1989 and has been overseeing branch activities ever since. She has a passion for wilderness and loves exploring the great outdoors with her family, friends and the occasional bus load of children. Joan also volunteers with the Golden Nordic Club and plays in the Parson Jazz Cooperative.
Juri Peepre
Regional Chair
Juri Peepre is a long time conservationist with a passion for wilderness, mountains and wild rivers. After 20 years in the Yukon, he now lives in Windermere, where he continues to work on protected area initiatives in BC and the North. Juri was the executive director of the Yukon Chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society and served a term as the national president of CPAWS.
Margie Jamieson
Regional Director
Marion Stotts
Marion is relatively new to the Columbia Valley and the conservation movement but has found a good fit as both a branch and regional board member with Wildsight. Her professional background is in Nursing Education with a specialty in Oncology and Palliative Care. Marion's personal and professional experiences have certainly raised questions about the correlation between all forms of
Sharon Switzer
Regional Director
As a Coordinator for Fernie Leisure Services for the last 11 years I have been responsible for organizing and developing many public events and community celebrations as well as contributing to many projects with nonprofit agencies in my personal life.
