Our People

With over a century of broad and diverse experience in stewardship and habitat conservation, from policy development to program design and delivery, the founding partners have demonstrated a passion for finding innovative solutions to complex environmental challenges. They recognize that resolution is derived not from conflicting objectives but from the alliances found between social well-being, sustainability of the natural environment and sustainability of business. More important, they advocate that the time has come for governments, organizations, landowners, industries and communities to set common goals, share responsibilities, and work as partners in conserving and using our wildlife and other natural resources sustainably.

The work of CESC draws upon the advice of distinguished members of the Canadian conservation and stewardship profession.

CESC is supported by an interdisciplinary network of fish and wildlife science, stewardship and management associates, experts and advisors from Canada and abroad.

Company Profile

The Centre for Environmental Stewardship and Conservation is a private consultancy, was federally incorporated in 2008 in Canada, and has its corporate address located near Canada’s capital city of Ottawa, Ontario. It has three Principal Partner-Shareholders and a group of Associates that assist in the completion of company projects. Clients have included provincial governments including the British Columbia Ministry of Environment, Alberta Environment and Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources; federal government agencies in Canada including Environment Canada, the National Capital Commission, and Natural Resources Canada; Canadian and international non-government organizations including the Fur Insitute of Canada, Land Stewardship Centre for Canada, Wildlife Habitat Canada, Nature Iraq; and intergovernmental organizations such as the Secretariat to the Ramsar Convention.

Projects have included assisting in the planning and implementation of national and regional workshiops and conferences; soliciting and editing managers’ views on the importance of wetland conservation sites; preparing a series of scientific papers for peer review and journal publication; developing a recreational services plan for a national park; preparing a management plan for an internationally designated Ramsar wetland site in Iraq; writing promotional media material for a Ramsar site in Canada; undertaking policy and legislative reviews of provincial stewardship, endangered species and conservation programs; undertaking national surveys of non-government organizations’ views on stewardship programming; preparing a national status report on stewarship in Canada; undertaking stakeholder consultation workshops; producing research reports on the economic impact of stewardship; assessing the scope of hunter concerns to new possible government policy options; and evaluating the contribition of specific program initiatives to government policy. CESC also has developed a national Ecological Recovery Plan for a consortium of non-government organizations; and researched the fesability of a Canadian Conservation Volunteer Corps.

CESC has also contributed a significant amount of pro bono time and effort to assist worthy national conservation projects; provide advice on project andconcepot development; act as a panelist or invited speaker at science and policy conferences; lecture at national and international training courses; and undertake voluntary, independent research for partner organizations.

Principal Partners of the CESC

	Doug Wolthausen, President Doug has 39 years experience in strategic planning, policy, and program development as a landscape ecologist. He has specialized in voluntary, adaptive habitat management approaches that permit balancing economic, social and environmental objectives at both the local and wide-ranging scales in all working landscapes of Canada. His experience has been gained through independent environmental consulting, progressively complex positions with the National Capital Commission and Wildlife Habitat Canada, and through leadership and advisory roles on national and international boards and joint ventures. He is currently President of the Centre for Environmental Stewardship and Conservation. He has lead national consultations on topics such as Canada’s Stewardship Action Plan and the Voluntary Sector’s engagement in conservation. He served as the invited Chair of Canada’s Stewardship Community Network and steered the CIDA-funded Climate Change and Peat Forest Restoration Project in Indonesia. Locally, he has been an outspoken advisor to the Eastern Ontario Model Forest and the Algonquin to Adirondack Conservation Initiative. He has led initiatives to produce national strategies and plans to advance environmental stewardship as an important conservation program delivery approach to overcome current stresses on Canada’s natural capital and technical reports that argue for creating conservation jobs to boost Canada’s economy. Doug received a B.A. in Physical Geography and Civil Engineering in 1970 and a B.Sc. in Biology in 1972. He lives in rural Kars, Ontario, Canada and is married with three children.
	Clayton Rubec, Vice-President Clayton has 35 years of policy, science and program leadership, expertise and work experience from positions with Environment Canada, the Canadian International Development Agency, Ducks Unlimited Canada, the University of Waterloo, and, currently, the Centre for Environmental Stewardship and Conservation. He has acted as a senior consultant and advisor on environmental conservation and institutional capacity building programs for several national governments. From 2004 to 2010, he assisted Nature Iraq and the Iraq Ministry of Environment to advance interministerial wetland conservation initiatives including Iraq’s engagement in the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. He has led and organized numerous national and international workshops and conferences; been a guest lecturer at many universities and invited conference presenter, panelist and chairperson; as well a conflict resolution workshop facilitator. Nationally, he has led the creation and implementation of new conservation programs, ecological land survey technology, and wetland science and environmental stewardship coordination. He has led initiatives to produce international technical guidance reports on Peatland Management and National Wetland Policy Development for the Ramsar Convention, chaired several international task forces and travelled to 45 nations in support of these efforts. He received a B.Sc. in Ecology and Physical Geography in 1973 and an M.Sc. in Physical Geography in 1976 plus has undertaken related post graduate training. He has received several national and international recognition awards for his work and program leadership. Clayton lives in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and is married with three children.
	Lynn McIntyre, Vice-President Lynn McIntyre has over 20 years of work experience in the non-government sector in Canada. He has developed extensive expertise in interagency program development, voluntary sector initiatives, public fund-raising and community-based stewardship as well as the process of public grant making and awarding. He previously was Director of Stewardship Programs for a national non-government organization, Wildlife Habitat Canada. Lynn is very experienced in the development of policy and programs from the municipal to the national level, from strategy to implementation, leveraging a full range of partnerships ranging from industry, government and the non-government sectors. He has led teams charged with developing plans, fostering team work, implementing strategies, and administering projects in a variety of national initiatives ranging from national multi-stakeholder consultations, implementation of web based portal technology and national attitudinal surveys. He is currently the Executive Director of the Canadian Land Trust Coalition and Vice-President of the Centre for Environmental Stewardship and Conservation. Lynn is also involved in numerous volunteer initiatives with diverse Board of Director experience in nonprofit and charities in the environmental, health and arts community. These include the Eastern Ontario Model Forest Program, Friends of the Earth, the Canadian Cancer Society and the Perth and District Food Bank.  He has received his B.A. degree and several prestigious national awards. Lynn lives with his partner in Perth, Ontario, Canada.