Bruce has over 37 years of experience as a professional forester and biologist, primarily focused on fire and forest ecology, forest management, wildland/urban interface planning, forest policy, and practice audits and reviews. Bruce is considered a provincial fire and fuels management expert and has managed numerous innovative fire risk identification and mitigation projects for the public and private sectors. He has provided expert opinion testimony and myriad interviews on wildfire in BC. Bruce assisted the Firestorm 2003 Review Team in developing forest management and policy recommendations to mitigate the risk of catastrophic fires in BC’s wildland/urban interface. In Alberta, Bruce has been involved with developing the provincial fire management planning standard and the first landscape-scale fire management plans and risk assessments. More recently, Bruce completed a wildfire risk analysis of the BC Hydro electrical system, and he is supporting the BC Wildfire Service in developing a Provincial Wildfire Risk Assessment. He has been a fire science and management instructor at the University of British Columbia and the British Columbia Institute of Technology.