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Find out who we are and what we do!

Our Organization

We are a not-for-profit society and registered charity composed of local volunteers and experienced professionals with complementary strengths that support the NTS vision and further our mission. With our range of backgrounds, we come together to advocate for sustainable trails and to build high-quality nature trails across the beautiful southern Vancouver Island.

The Nature Trails Society works with landowners, First Nations, municipalities, Parks & Recreation, the CRD, and other industry partners to gain access and authorize specific cross-regional trail corridors. We work to support effective shared-use nature trails and trail networks that can provide local outdoor recreation options for different users, including: hikers, trail runners, mountain bikers, dog walkers, horseback riders, commuting cyclists, and families.

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Meet Our Board Of Directors and Chairs

Lorna Clark

Volunteer Management

Lorna enjoys connecting and organizing volunteers for Nature Trails Society. She’s been an avid hiker and runner for most of her life and enjoys other outdoor activities, like skiing. She has been serving NTS for 3 years by coordinating the volunteers for trail building events and following up with prospective volunteers.
Lorna Clark

Chloe

Secretary

Passionate about the outdoors, Chloe has always found joy in hiking and staying active through sports. Whether she’s walking, jogging, swimming, or simply birdwatching, being outdoors feels like therapy. Growing…
Chloe

Andrew Pape-Salmon

Government Liaison

Andrew is the government relations liaison who helps raise awareness and navigates trail development proposals with local governments. He is thrilled to support the NTS as a Director and was the acting President in 2019. He helps because he’s been an active trail user for nearly 50 years as a trail runner, hiker, cross-country skier, mountaineer, and mountain biker across the eight Canadian provinces and territories he has lived in! …
Andrew Pape-Salmon

Daniel Cammiade

Executive Director

Daniel is a trail master extraordinaire with over 20 years of experience exploring the island trails on foot, wheels and horseback. This has resulted in invaluable and lasting connections within the trail community.  As the founder and Executive Director, Daniel works closely with the SVINTS board, volunteers, staff, landowners, government and indigenous partners to achieve the Society’s strategic plan and objectives. As a cartographer by trade, along with extensive trail building experience and training from the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA), Daniel manages the Society’s daily operations, including the design, build and maintenance of trails, guidance and supervision of projects and trail building activities and volunteer and staff engagement, while liaising with key stakeholders to keep everything on track or in this case, trail. As a life-long Victoria local and father of two, he’s sincerely invested in this community. Author of two outdoor recreation guidebooks (one in its fifth edition) and a self-employed cartographer, he has published recreational maps for locals and visiting travellers and mapped the popular Hartland Mountain Bike Park in Victoria along with involvement in various sanctioned trail building efforts.  As a multi-year past president with the South Island Mountain Bike Society (SIMBS) and in his current role, Daniel advocates for the multi-access accessibility of our local parks and trails. This has resulted in building key relationships and connections with several other trail support groups including the South Island Mountain Bike Society (SIMBS) the Outdoor Club of Victoria, Habitat Acquisition Trust, Vancouver Island Trail Association, to name a few. His involvement in developing the Sea to Sea Management Plan, has illustrated his desire and ability to collaborate with CRD Parks and BC Parks staff and administration.
Daniel Cammiade

Don Monsour

Governance

Don enjoys participating and leading organizations in achieving their goals. While working with an array of organizations for over 45 years (both for-profit and not-for-profit), he has a strong understanding of the rules and regulations that govern many boards and committees. With this experience and his business background, Don is knowledgeable about board guidelines and how they can achieve the strategic goals and direction set by the board.
Don Monsour

Mia Barkasy

Human Resources

Mia is a dedicated Human Resource professional who lends her time and skills to our nature trail community with guidance, development and implementation of organizational people policies, practices and worker relations. Mia is a humanitarian who gives back through volunteering with us and other not-for-profits.
Mia Barkasy

James Mason

Marketing and Communications

James originally started as a trail builder with Nature Trails Society in 2020 while completing his MBA at UVic. After graduating, James began working for the Provincial Government. James joined…
James Mason

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