Marisol Enright

I run multi-year forest restoration programmes and build the monitoring that proves whether they actually worked.

Nine years across watershed trusts and a regional parks authority, mostly on degraded conifer slopes: planting design, seed sourcing, contractor oversight, and the survey protocols that keep results defensible a decade later. I spend about half my time in the field with crews and half turning what they record into something a funder or a land manager can act on.

Looking for a programme lead role where monitoring is treated as part of the work rather than a reporting afterthought, and where I can keep a small field team stable across seasons.

• Kestrel Ridge replanting

  Programme lead

  A 240-hectare burn scar was replanted twice by previous contractors and failed both times. I paused planting for a season to map soil moisture and browse pressure first, then rebuilt the species mix around what the slope could actually hold.

  Scope

  Four planting seasons, three contractor crews, one seed-collection partnership

  My part

  Site assessment, species mix, contractor specifications, survival survey design

  Outcome

  Third-year survival held well above the trust's threshold and the protocol was adopted for two neighbouring sites

• Thornbeck Creek riparian buffer

  Field coordinator

  Landowner-by-landowner negotiation along eleven kilometres of creek, fencing stock out of the channel and planting a mixed native buffer behind it. The hard part was never the planting.

  Scope

  Nineteen private parcels, seasonal volunteer crews, shared maintenance agreements

  My part

  Landowner liaison, planting plan, volunteer training, maintenance scheduling

  Outcome

  Continuous buffer completed across the reach with maintenance commitments still held by the landowners

• Standing monitoring protocol

  Author

  The trust had fifteen years of survey data in incompatible formats. I wrote a single field protocol and a plain-language recording sheet that seasonal crews could use without a week of training, then back-mapped the older records onto it.

  Scope

  All trust restoration sites, retrospective and ongoing

  My part

  Protocol design, crew training materials, historic data reconciliation

  Outcome

  Now the standard recording method across the trust's field programme

1. 2022 — present

   Restoration Programme Lead

   Alder Watershed Trust
   • Hold the restoration portfolio across six upland sites, from site selection through to the monitoring that follows planting.
   • Write contractor specifications and supervise delivery on site rather than from a desk.
   • Line-manage two field officers and a rotating seasonal crew of six to ten.
   • Prepare the technical sections of grant reports and respond to funder queries on method.
2. 2019 — 2022

   Field Coordinator, Riparian Programme

   Alder Watershed Trust
   • Ran the creek buffer programme end to end, including all landowner agreements.
   • Built the volunteer training that replaced ad-hoc briefings with a repeatable half-day session.
   • Introduced the first consistent survival survey across riparian sites.
3. 2017 — 2019

   Vegetation Officer

   Marrowfield Regional Parks Authority
   • Surveyed and mapped vegetation condition across public reserve land.
   • Planned and supervised invasive removal on priority slopes.
   • Handled the seed collection calendar and the authority's nursery liaison.
4. 2016 — 2017

   Seasonal Field Technician

   Marrowfield Regional Parks Authority
   • Planting, plot establishment and data recording across two field seasons.

Practice

• Restoration planting design
• Vegetation condition assessment
• Monitoring protocol design
• Contractor specification & oversight
• Landowner negotiation
• Seasonal crew supervision

Tools

• QGIS
• R for survey analysis
• Field data collection apps
• Handheld GNSS
• Spreadsheet modelling

Also

• Technical writing for funders
• Volunteer training delivery
• Field first aid, current
• Chainsaw ticket, current
• Conversational Spanish

MSc Restoration Ecology

Coldwater University · 2016 — thesis on browse pressure as a limiting factor in conifer establishment

BSc Environmental Science

Coldwater University · 2014

Certificate in Applied Spatial Analysis

Continuing education, part-time · 2021

Happy to talk through any of the above in detail — method notes and survey data available on request.

marisol@pinethread.example

Available for programme roles from March. Willing to travel to field sites; based in the Cascadia foothills.