A Message From Your New Chapter President

Greetings Washington – British Columbia Chapter members.   I am writing this from an Ottawa, Ontario hotel room, winding up my participation at the 138th Annual AFS Parent Society Meeting.  I am looking for a theme to introduce myself and provide some updates and vision about the Chapter.  I look over at the countertop and all [...]

Revitalized Chapter Marine Fisheries Committee

Over the summer, new chapter Vice President, Mark Pedersen, Chair Bill Mavros, and Tad Schwager put their heads together to develop a strategic plan to revitalize our chapter’s Marine Fisheries Committee (MFC). Their draft plan was tweaked by the WA/BC Executive Committee (ExComm) to come up with the following: The mission of the Marine Fisheries [...]

Washington-British Columbia Chapter Represented at AFS Annual General Meeting

AFS 2011 Program Chair Craig Busack, (WA Dept of Fish and Wildlife) and Chapter President Larry Dominguez attended the Parent Society Meeting August 18-21 along with several other Washington –British Columbia members.  It was an opportunity for Craig and Larry to begin scoping the needs and processes for our 2011 meeting and see some great [...]

New Leaders and a Name Change!

New Chapter Leaders This year’s Chapter balloting was a rousing success. We had four great candidates for the two open positions on the Chapter Executive Committee. Mark Pedersen will be the new Chapter Vice President and Geraldine Vander Haegen is the new Assistant Newsletter Editor. They assumed their new offices as of August 19, 2008. [...]