Tim is a conservation biologist and the President of the Cumberland-based Latitude Conservation Solutions Company. He has many years of experience working to protect and restore biodiversity in BC. Tim volunteers on the Board of Directors of the Comox Valley Project Watershed Society and the Steering Committee of the Coastal Douglas-fir Conservation Partnership, both of which are working to protect and restore environmental values in the Salish Sea region. His work has involved extensive education and outreach components including national, provincial, and local television, radio, print, and online media. Tim is a 4th generation Vancouver Islander, and spends his free time mountaineering, backcountry skiing, hiking, kayaking, hunting, or mountain biking all over the Island and beyond.
I grew up on Vancouver Island, the fourth of five generations of my family to have done so. I have had the great fortune of hearing stories from the previous […]
[On Judgement Day] …men will cast away their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship—to the moles and bats. They will flee to caverns in the rocks […]
[On Judgement Day] …men will cast away their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship—to the moles and bats. They will flee to caverns in the rocks […]
It is amazing to stand on the shores of Comox Lake and consider the vast amount of water it contains. With a surface area of 21 square kilometres and a […]
Drive northwest past the ferry line-ups, strip malls, and highways choked with RVs. Carry on until you’re out of cell service. Keep going. Turn left at the old Hudson’s Bay […]
“I just want to wake up one day, open the company’s books, and not see the Field Sawmill property there,” John Horning tells me. Horning is the Executive Vice President […]
Words by Tim EnnisFeatured photo by Robert Lundquist
As a very young child, I enjoyed my mum reading to me the story of Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling C. Holling. It is a magical message-in-a-bottle story of a young First […]
“Man must make himself small and humble to live in [nature] rather than a ruthless giant to conquer it” – Roderick Haig-Brown On August 29th 2016, the International Geological Congress […]
This season, rivers and streams swell and grow like open hearts and minds, reminding us what we’ve left behind and leading us to places we can’t imagine. Growth in spring […]
British Columbia is home to more biological diversity than any other Canadian province or territory. This ‘species richness’ is a result of BC’s tremendous landscape-scale diversity that includes rich marine […]
“It’s getting too damn warm in the Salish Sea,” explains aquatic ecologist Bill Heath. He goes on to tell me about gametophytes, sporophytes, sori, and the lethal effects of sea […]
Words by Tim EnnisOpening photo by Grant Callegari
“Colby is a Swiss army knife. He pretty much does it all. James is our IT guy,” explains Jason (‘action’) Jackson. Collectively the three are the engine behind Hakai Energy […]
Words by Tim EnnisPhoto provided by Hakai Energy Solutions