Mike Dehn
Executive Director
Mike Dehn assumed the role of CPAWS-Yukon Executive Director in May, 2007
Mike is a long-term resident of the Yukon who comes to CPAWS from the private sector, having been the owner and principal consultant of his own business in the Yukon for the past 13 years. Mike’s work has included conservation biology, economics, policy development, and communications, and he holds advanced degrees in both economics (MA) and biology (PhD). His previous background includes extensive experience as a professional economist as well as a stint of teaching in the Renewable Resources Program at Yukon College.
Mike has been involved with CPAWS-Yukon for several years, and has served as an active member of the Board for a year and a half. He has lived in both Whitehorse and smaller communities and has conducted extensive field work in the Yukon, NWT, and Alaska. His personal interests in the wilderness are varied and long-standing. He enjoys hunting and fishing, back-country hiking and skiing-camping, wilderness canoe tripping and wildlife work in remote mountainous areas.
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Randi Mulder
GIS Coordinator
Randi Mulder (B.Sc. Biol - Queen's University) joined CPAWS-Yukon in 1997 and in 1998 began setting up the chapter’s GIS program. Prior to joining CPAWS, she worked as a field technician throughout the north and provided research assistance to Canadian Wildlife Service biologists.
Randi has a keen interest in natural history and enjoys exploring the natural world with her husband, two children and dog.
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Theresa Gulliver
Conservation Coordinator
Theresa Gulliver has a background in Forestry from UBC, where she obtained a B.Sc. in Natural Resources Conservation.
Working as a field biologist throughout B.C. and the western United States, she has conducted a range of biological surveys of habitats, fungi and spotted owls. She worked with the UBC Sustainability Office, in aid of more sustainable activities across campus.
Theresa completed an internship with the Silva Forest Foundation. After developing a community-based watershed monitoring program in the Kootenays, Theresa went to Nigeria. There she worked for a local ENGO assisting a village in mapping and ecosystem-based management planning for their traditional lands. More recently, Theresa consulted with First Nations in the Lower Mainland, BC on forest management issues.
Theresa’s passion for conservation of boreal forests stems from growing up in Ontario and taking trips to Temagami’s ancient pine forests. She joined CPAWS-Yukon in May, 2004. Her focus is protection of the Three Rivers of northeastern Yukon’s Peel Watershed, where she works towards developing and implementing a conservation vision with First Nations, government and the public.
Theresa is an active naturalist with a keen interest in botany and ecology. She embraces the Yukon’s austere wilderness through hiking, biking and skiing.
Read Theresa’s article Snake River - an experience of a lifetime.
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Gillian McKee
Campaign Coordinator
Gillian McKee comes to CPAWS from seven years as the Lands Manager at Kwanlin Dun First Nation. As a land use planner, she has worked over the past 20 years across the north on various land and resource planning initiatives. Through this experience, she brings a good understanding of the complex, multi-jurisdictional processes through which decisions are made about our northern ecosystem. Through her experience of working closely with First Nations and Inuit people across the north, she has gained a deep appreciation of their relationship and responsibilities to the land, which informs her work. She brings a strong interest in community-based planning in which local people are engaged and empowered in land decision-making.
She has a Bachelors of Science in Biology from the University of Toronto and a Masters of Science in Regional Land Use Planning from the University of British Columbia, which first connected her with the Yukon in studying the environmental assessment of the initial Alaska Highway gas pipeline proposal.
Her involvement with CPAWS goes back over ten years when she was one of the founding members of CPAWS-NWT and its first Conservation Director. She is excited to be once again connecting with the organization in the Yukon.
Most of her time outdoors is spent exploring her local bioregion of the Takhini River valley, in the company of her children and dogs. Skiing and canoeing are her favourite ways of experiencing nature’s bounty.
