Cliff White has worked with Parks Canada since 1973 in various positions including fire crew member, public safety warden, and park vegetation/fire specialist. From 1987 to 1990, he was the Parks Canada National Fire Management Coordinator in Parks Canada’s Ottawa headquarters. Since 1990, Cliff has worked as a biologist with Banff National Parks Resource Conservation Section, an interdisciplinary group of wildlife, vegetation, aquatic, and geographic information system specialists. His focus has been on the long-term and current role of humans in determining fire regimes and wildlife density patterns in the Canadian Rockies, and particularly on the ecosystem effects of recent major changes in BNP’s elk population (due to human habituation, predation, and management relocations), combined with the habitat effects of large-area prescribed burns. Cliff has a Ph.D. in Forest Ecology from the University of British Columbia. He lives in Canmore, Alberta with a busy wife, 3 even busier kids, a tired dog, and a mortgage.

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