Howie, Robert Richard

He attended the University of British Columbia studying Agriculture.

In 1970 he was a Seasonal Park Naturalist at Banff National Park.

In 1971 he was appointed as the Chief Park Interpreter at Prince Edward Island National Park.

He transferred to Kejimkujik National Park in 1971.

In 1972 he was an Active (Full) Canadian Member of the Association of Interpretive Naturalists in the USA.

In 1973 he was one of the participants in the organizing meeting at Dorset ON for the Association of Canadian Interpreters (the fore-runner of Interpretation Canada.) He was appointed as Regional Interpretive Planner for the Parks Canada Regional Office at Cornwall ON.

He participated in several projects which developed new approaches to interpretation planning in Canada.

He transferred to Yoho National Park as Chief Park Interpreter serving 1975-1977.

In 1978 he joined the British Columbia Provincial Parks serving in various positions in Visitor Services at the Regional Office in Kamloops BC.

In 1994 he joined the Fish & Wildlife Section of the BC Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks as a Habitat Protection Biologist.

He was always an active field naturalist and keen ornithologist and maintains and enlarges a database of more than 30,000 bird sightings in the Kamloops area.

He is an expert on the Flammulated Owl and the migration of raptors in the Kamloops Region. His recent projects include a role as regional editor for species accounts in "Birds of British Columbia" as well as authoring a species account in that series.

In 2004, Rick retired after 33 years in government service.

He has been operating his own wildlife and environmental consulting company, completing over 150 projects since "retiring".