Mark Angelo (C.M., O.B.C., MSc., BSc.) is a noted educator, river conservationist, outdoor leader, writer and volunteer. He is head of the Fish, Wildlife and Recreation Program, British Columbia Institute of Technology, past chair of the 120,000 member Outdoor Recreation Council, and founder of B.C. Rivers Day (which started in 1980), a province-wide celebration of B.C.’s rivers that now attracts up to 50,000 people every year. Mark was the inaugural recipient of the “10 Year National River Conservation Award” as Canada’s outstanding river conservationist of the past decade. He received the Order of Canada (Canada’s highest honour) in 2001 “for exceptional and on-going achievements in the protection and restoration of Canada’s waterways”, and the Order of British Columbia (B.C.’s highest honour) in 1998 in recognition of outstanding service and achievement in river conservation, as well as numerous other awards. He has written over 250 articles and editorials pertaining to river conservation and other environmental topics and donated extensive volunteer service amounting to tens of thousands of hours over the past 30 years. Mark speaks regularly at conferences throughout Canada and the world and is an avid and renowned paddler, having traveled on several hundred rivers throughout Canada and on six separate continents.