Our story
Matt founded Purcell Forestry in 2025, seeing an opportunity to provide client-focused urban forestry and wildfire consulting services in the Kootenay region of British Columbia. Following his graduation from UBC’s Master of Sustainable Forest Management program, he worked as a timber cruiser and forest technician before transitioning towards strategic urban forestry and community wildfire planning. Matt has led the City of Langford’s Community Wildfire Resiliency Plan (2025), Town of Gibsons’ Urban Forest Plan (2025), Assiniboine Park Forest Management Plan (2024), City of Penticton’s Urban Forest Management Plan (2024), and seven Community Wildfire Resiliency Plans for the Regional District of Nanaimo (2022) among other projects. He was the content lead for the District of Saanich’s award-winning Urban Forest Strategy (2024). Matt moved from Vancouver to the East Kootenays in 2024, having long admired the mountain culture and community spirit of southeast BC.
Purcell Forestry is named in honour of the mountain range at the heart of the Kootenays, in the traditional and unceded territory of the Ktunaxa First Nations.
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