Board of Directors

Kathy Lindsay has been active with the BRWP since 2007 and has been chair of the Board since 2009. She lives in Renfrew and has a family cottage on the Ottawa River just downstream of the confluence with the Bonnechere River. Professionally, she is Dr. Kathryn Lindsay having obtained a PhD in Biology from Carleton and is an Adjunct Research Professor in Biology and in Geography and Environmental Studies and a co-Director of the Geomatics and Landscape Ecology Research Lab built with funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation. Her graduate students have worked on habitat suitability modeling for wildlife, effects of landscape structure on farmland biodiversity, and systematic assessment for wildlife conservation both now and under a climate change future. She has been employed as a wildlife research ecologist with Environment Canada from 1986 to 2015, conducting future scenario and ecological risk assessment studies at local to national scales in Canada, the USA and Panama to understand effects of land cover and land use (particularly agriculture and urbanization) on wildlife, water, and people, and to explore approaches for incorporating nature conservation into land-use policy, planning and decision-making. Photo: Renfrew Mercury

Jennifer Doelman

John Almstead

Cam Crogie

Allan Best

Doug Fraser

Advisors to the Board

Ottawa River Institute

Valley Climate Circle

Ottawa River Keeper

Local government liaisons; Horton, Admaston Bromley, Bonnechere Valley, Killaloe Hagarty and Richards, Town of Renfrew.

Cheryl Keetch, Coordinator -  Cheryl is a Graphic Design graduate of both Georgian and Sheridan College. As coordinator for the BRWP, she brings a diverse career background that includes graphic design, workshop development, library management, as well as extensive experience with not-for-profit organizations and hands-on and management roles in the fields of retail building materials and alternative home building. For Cheryl, living in rural settings around Renfrew County has nourished a love and appreciation for its lands, waters, forests, and people. She lives off-grid in a renewable energy home near Killaloe.