New Columbia Shuswap Invasive Species Society has a coordinator 2013-05-13Meet Natalie Stafl. The Revelstoke biologist is the newly appointed Coordinator of the Columbia Shuswap Invasive Species Society. The society has been created to prevent and manage the spread of invasive species in the CSRD region. She conducted her Master’s research on the impact of hiking traffic and temperature on American pika foraging behaviour in the Selkirk mountains. Natalie has worked in BC and the Yukon monitoring fish and wildlife as well as studying glacier climatology and alpine plant communities in the area. She completed her Bachelors of Science in 2009 from the UBC Faculty of Forestry in Natural Resource Conservation. When she is not working, Natalie can be found playing in the mountains or tending to her backyard garden. Photo courtesy of the Columbia Shuswap Invasive Species Society