Scott Formaniuk is an owner and senior silviculturalist with Tree Time Services. Scott uses his vast silviculture and reforestation experience to help forestry and oilfield companies reforest their land successfully.

Scott received a Bachelor of Science in Forestry from the University of Alberta in 1992 and has worked continuously as a silviculturalist and forester ever since receiving his degree. Scott also holds a professional designation as a Registered Professional Forester (RPF).

Scott has worked in both the public and private sector in Alberta and British Columbia in various roles including as a senior silviculturalist and forester for some of Alberta’s major forestry companies. Scott has been directly responsible for the reforestation of more than fifty million seedlings in his career and over thirteen million seedlings just in the summer of 1999.

Scott has also been in charge of carrying out and coordinating a massive afforestation program of over 100 quarter sections of agricultural land.

As part of his work with Tree Time Services Scott undertakes an annual tour of the major reforestation efforts in Alberta from as far north as High Level and Fort McMurray to as far south as Crowsnest Pass. Scott is in the unique position to visit with most of the foresters in the province and see what works and what doesn’t.

Despite being an owner of Tree Time Services, Scott still likes to get his hands dirty. He spends a couple of weeks at the end of every summer coordinating a major aerial spray program for two of Tree Time Services’ clients.

Larry Lafleur is the president of Tree Time Services and performs the role of director of nursery operations.

In his capacity as director of nursery operations Larry is responsible for ensuring that Tree Time Services has the reclamation stock it requires. Of course this job is made easier because Larry is also the president of the Smoky Lake Forest Nursery and also managed the facility for the better part of two decades.

Larry has spent his entire career on the cutting edge of the forestry industry. After graduating from the NAIT Forestry Tech. program in 1968, Larry spent ten years conducting field research for the Canadian Forest Service.

In 1978 Larry moved over to the Alberta Forest Service and was responsible for the construction, setup, and operation of Alberta’s only seed extraction, cleaning, and testing facility—the only facility of its kind in Alberta even today.

In 1983 Larry took over the bareroot tree program at Pine Ridge Forest Nursery. Under Larry’s direction, the program adapted and improved methods of transplanting seedlings from containers to bareroot fields. Under Larry’s management the program was able to produce up to 18 million seedlings a year.

In 1990 Larry was promoted to the manager of the commercial tree nursery section of the Alberta Forest Service and was responsible for ordering and procuring all the reforestation seedlings for private industry for the entire province. He was also responsible for the incubation of the privately owned tree nursery industry in Alberta. At its peak Larry was responsible for 45 million seedlings growing in 36 facilities from BC to Ontario on an annual basis.

1994 was a busy year for Larry. The Alberta government privatized the reforestation seedling industry. Larry responded by leaving the government and incorporating as Lafleur’s Consulting. He continued acting as the go between for Alberta’s major forest companies and many of Alberta’s tree nurseries. He also got six nurseries to join a cooperative to help market their trees collectively.

In 1997 Larry got a group of investors together and took over Pine Ridge Forest Nursery in Smoky Lake. The facility became known as the Smoky Lake Forest Nursery.

In 2002 Larry partnered with his son Brad and Scott Formaniuk to create Tree Time Services. Tree Time Services’ primary activity was the marketing of trees for the cooperative Larry formed a few years earlier, which became Coast To Coast Reforestation in 2003. Since that time, Tree Time Services has been growing and expanding under Larry’s careful direction.

Even though Larry spends a good deal of time in front of a computer these days, it hasn’t stopped him from innovating.

In 2004 he developed a method of growing hybrid aspen stock based on root propagation that is significantly more cost effective and more reliable than tissue culture, the next best technique. And along with his head grower at Smoky Lake Forest Nursery they continue to improve the technique.

Larry has also been instrumental in consulting on the development of oil sands reclamation projects. Along with his growing team at SLFN, they have been developing methods of growing trees and shrubs specifically suited for oil sands reclamation. Smoky Lake Forest Nursery grows nearly all of Alberta’s oil sands reclamation stock which amounts to 50 species and in 2011 totaled 1.75 million seedlings.

In his off time you can find Larry fishing with his grandchildren, curling, or enjoying the company of his wife, Judy.

Mike Ardiel joined our company in the spring of 2011 as the Reclamation Coordinator.

Mike is eminently qualified as a silviculture forester and reclamation specialist having been responsible for overseeing the reforestation of over 20 million seedlings during his time in the field.

After graduating with honors from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) Forest Technology program in 2004, Mike accepted the position of Forest Technologist with Millar Western in Boyle, Alberta.

Between 2004 and 2006 Mike learned silviculture forestry from the ground up. He also received his professional designation as a Registered Professional Forest Technologist (RPFT) during this time.

In 2006 Mike became the Silviculture Coordinator for Millar Western Boyle, which made him directly responsible for all aspects of silviculture and reforestation for the company. In this role, Mike was responsible for site evaluations, prescriptions, site preparation, road construction, sourcing reforestation trees, planting, vegetation management, tearing out roads, surveys, and other followup of over two million seedlings annually. Mike had the rare advantage of being able to see the results of his work year after year and applying that real-world, Alberta experience to all future projects.

In 2011, Tree Time Services was able to hire Mike away from Millar Western. Because of the new regulations for the reclamation of forested land, Mike’s education and vast experience with reforestation make him the ideal person to head Tree Time Services’ reclamation program. Mike has ’played with a lot of dirt’ as he likes to say and that experience is invaluable when you want to get your reclamation certificate as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Mike has always loved the outdoors. Growing up in Whitehorse, Mike took full advantage of the beauty of the Yukon. Later in life his love of the outdoors grew into a love of travel. Mike has explored the United States, southeast Asia, central America, much of Europe, and Nepal, among other places. If you really get out there you might have run into Mike at the base camp of Mount Everest or on his recent trip to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Mike Toffan joined TTSI during the winter of 2014 as the Reclamation Coordinator for northeastern Alberta.

Prior to joining TTSI, Mike was a Senior Environmental Scientist at Pratum Resource Consultants. During his three years at Pratum, he was responsible for northern Alberta operations and managed the Edmonton office. While initiating, operating and supervising field activities, he provided leadership and training to junior staff as well as overlooked quality processes on all work, projects and reports. He has experience with both provincial and federal regulatory bodies and has expertise in the areas of Phase I, II, & III Environmental Site Assessments (ESA), remediation and reclamation projects, program planning and management, silviculture prescriptions (site preparation, planting and vegetation management), ecosystem classification and environmental reporting.

Between 2006 and 2012 Mike worked as a Field Technician and Planning Forester for Millar Western Forest Products in Boyle, Alberta. During his time with Millar Western, Mike was responsible for the site preparation program, log quality program, survey program, and helped manage the tree planting and vegetation management programs. In 2011 and 2012, Mike was responsible for planning, submitting and gaining approval for the harvest plans and was successfully tasked with certifying the Boyle Wood Products Division to meet the SFI (Sustainable Forestry Initiative) certification criteria.

Mike holds a B.Sc. from the University of Alberta in Forest Business Management (2006) and a Technical Diploma from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Forest Technology (2002). He is recognized as a Professional Forester by the College of Alberta Professional Foresters. Mike has nine years of experience in the forest industry and has been intimately involved for the last four years in environmental consulting industry. Mike enjoys coordinating and supervising projects, contractors and subcontractors and has managed projects of all sizes with budgets up to $2,000,000.

Jeff Renton holds an M.Sc. in Biological Sciences from the University of Manitoba (2010) and has several years of environmental/forestry surveying and restoration experience from several consulting companies and NGO’s.  Through managing two separate non-profits in the Prairies he specialized in public extension in forested and agricultural land management primarily in private lands.

Jeff has been an active member of the Canadian Institute of Forestry for over a decade, and primarily focused on planning and implementing forestry based professional development events regionally and nationally.

Jeff is currently a Reclamation Coordinator with Tree Time Services, responsible for planning and implementation of reclamation tree planting projects across Alberta. He is also responsible for company wide business development as well as seed collection and sourcing for reclamation seedling production.

Matt Collett is a Field Supervisor for Tree Time and holds a BA in English, with distinction, from Mount Allison University (2011). During University, Matt worked as a tree planter and foreman across Ontario, Alberta and BC.

Matt joined Tree Time in the spring of 2012. Management quickly realized how his experience tree planting partnered with his education created a unique asset to the company. Matt has become an integral part of the Reclamation Division.

During his tenure with Tree Time, Matt has conducted silviculture surveys and other services for forest product companies and supervised reforestation projects for energy clients across central and northern Alberta. Matt works with environmental consultants to achieve their needs on a variety of sites. Matt coordinates labour crews, provides recommendations on site prep and veg management, and advises on species and density requirements. Matt also coordinates and supervises seed collections for energy and forestry clients.

Ryan Archibald is a Silviculture Forester. At Tree Time his responsibilities include Project Management of herbicide applications, aerial seeding and vegetation management prescriptions. Ryan assists the reclamation and silviculture team with vegetation prescriptions, planting, seedling sales and project implementation.

Ryan joined Tree Time in January 2017. Prior to that, Tree Time Ryan has worked as an Environmental Technician, FireSmart Planner and Wildland Firefighter.

Kurtis Blaikie-Birkigt is the most senior archaeologist on the Tree Time Services staff and holds the title of Senior Project Archaeologist. Kurtis is responsible for providing archaeological assessments and mitigations for our forestry and oilfield clients.

Kurtis is highly qualified to work as an archaeologist in the boreal forest. He has been working as a permit archaeologist in Alberta’s boreal forest since 2005. But, in reality, Kurtis has been preparing for this work all his life.

He grew up in Sherwood Park but that didn’t keep Kurtis’ parents from cultivating his love of the outdoors. From an early age Kurtis could be found camping, fishing, and hunting year round. This real-life experience, especially winter camping on his uncle’s trap line in the Swan Hills, proved to be great background research for his future studies.

In his teen years, Kurtis was exposed to archaeology and saw it as a way to combine his love of the outdoors with his interest in past technologies and history. This led him to pursue a university education in anthropology. He studied enthusiastically but also took the time to participate in several leadership positions in student organizations. To broaden his experience, Kurtis studied at the Baikal field school in Siberia as part of a team excavating a bronze age cemetery site in the summer of 2000. In 2001 Kurtis was awarded a BA (Anthropology) with Distinction from the University of Alberta. But his education didn’t stop there.

During the pursuit of his master’s degree in anthropology, Kurtis expanded his knowledge and experience and focused his studies on the late pre-contact period on the northwest plains, parkland, and boreal regions of Alberta. Kurtis completed the first graduate thesis on the Bodo Bison Skulls Archaeological Site and was awarded an MA (Anthropology) from the University of Alberta in 2005.

From 2005-2008 Kurtis worked as a project archaeologist for Alberta Western Heritage. Kurtis managed large multi-year heritage management programs for several forestry and oilfield companies in central and northeastern Alberta.

In 2008 Tree Time Services recruited Kurtis to lead our new archaeology division. While Kurtis already had considerable experience and knowledge regarding the inner workings of forestry companies, we exposed him to the intricacies of our silviculture work and nursery operations to turn him into an expert.

Since joining Tree Time Services, Kurtis has landed several clients with his obvious enthusiasm for archaeology, his deep understanding of forestry and oil field planning and development, and his focus on keeping costs down without sacrificing quality.

On his days off, Kurtis works in his garden with his wife and two small children. He also keeps up on academic archaeology, and is an active member of the local archaeological association.

Teresa Tremblay is a Project Archaeologist at Tree Time Services Inc. She is responsible for the management of historic resource impact assessments, including project administration, fieldwork, analysis, and reporting.

Teresa specializes in cultural heritage management and policy, bringing seven years’ experience from academic, private, and public sectors to our team. She has a keen interest in promoting cultural heritage to the public, and a wealth of knowledge from former positions within the heritage departments of the Ontario government. Teresa is a permit archaeologist in Alberta and holds a professional licence in Ontario, where she operated her own consulting archaeology company before moving to Alberta in 2013.

Teresa earned her Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts degrees from Trent University, graduating in 2009, and is a Research Associate of the Trent University Archaeological Research Centre. She joined Tree Time Services Inc. in May 2013 and has since applied her experience in historic resource impact assessments as part of the environmental and land use planning process.

In her spare time, Teresa enjoys visiting Alberta’s historical sites, volunteering at a local hospital, presenting her archaeological work to local communities, and camping with her fiancé and their dog.

Corey Cookson is a Permit Archaeologist with Tree Time Services. Under the direction of the Senior Project Archaeologist, he supervises archaeological survey crews for forestry projects throughout northern Alberta.

Corey has a strong background in geographic information systems (GIS) analysis. He received his BA in Anthropology from Grant MacEwan University in 2009. His Master’s, which he received from the University of Alberta in 2013, focused on a GIS-based analysis of pre-contact site selection processes with attention to environment, defensibility, and other social factors.

He gained experience as a research and field assistant at a number of field schools and archaeological projects throughout the world, including Belize and Italy, and supervised a field school in B.C. These experiences have strengthened Corey’s skills in manipulating data, mapping, surveying, cataloguing, and crew supervision. Corey joined Tree Time Services in April 2013.

Corey spends his spare time playing hockey, exploring the outdoors, and taking his Eskipoo to the dog park.

Madeline Coleman is a Permit Archaeologist at Tree Time Services. She supervises small crews in the field, assists with artifact processing, and completes site reporting and data entry.

Madeline specializes in Cultural Resource Management (CRM)-based archaeology. She has experience in prairie, forestry, and oil and gas archaeology, gained through attending field schools in Manitoba. She also attended a one-month field school in Lamta, Tunisia, studying and excavating ancient Roman ruins.

Her interest in archaeology began at a young age; Madeline says she’s always been fascinated by the mystery of past peoples and enjoys putting the puzzle pieces of their cultures together.

Madeline received her BA Advanced in Anthropology from the University of Manitoba in 2007, and she completed her MA in Anthropology at Trent University in early 2013. Her thesis focused on animal conceptualization in Punic, Neo-Punic, and Roman North Africa.

She worked as a CRM Archaeologist between her BA and MA degrees, and she has also spent time as an Archaeological Illustrator. Madeline joined Tree Time Services in September 2013.

When she’s not working, Madeline’s interests include embroidery, reading, camping and travelling with her fiancé, and playing with her two cats.

Brian Leslie is a Permit Archaeologist with Tree Time Services Inc. Under the direction of the Senior Project Archaeologist, he supervises archaeological survey crews for archaeological projects throughout northern Alberta. Brian also assists with artifact processing, site reporting and data entry.

Although Brian has a strong background in osteoarchaeology (including human and zoological remains) and chemical analysis, recently, most of his time has been spent conducting Cultural Resource Management (CRM) based archaeology. He has experience doing oil and gas archaeology in Alberta and Saskatchewan and forestry archaeology in the Boreal, Foothills and Parkland regions of Alberta.

Brian received his B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Alberta in 2007 and completed his MA in Anthropology at the same institute in 2011. His thesis focused on using strontium isotope analysis to study mobility patterns among Greek agriculturalists during the Late Roman and Medieval Periods.

Brian completed his first field school in 2006 at Bodo, AB and his second in 2007 at Kallithea, Greece, where he continued to volunteer until 2011. Brian was also a supervisor and field osteologist for the Vultur Project in Rionero, Italy from 2009 to 2011. He was a field director for the Vultur Project in 2012.

He worked as a CRM archaeologist in 2008 and 2015 before joining Tree Time Services Inc. in April 2016, where he continues to work at CRM. When he is not working, Brian enjoys reading, playing games, camping, travelling and snowboarding.

Brittany Romano is a Permit Archaeologist at Tree Time Services Inc. When Brittany joined the team in 2014 she brought with her expertise in archival and historic research gained through her work at both museums and the University of Alberta.

Brittany has extensive survey experience for a variety of development types (forestry, gravel pits, campgrounds and roads) and has participated in multiple large-scale intensive excavations.

Brittany is active in community outreach and public archaeology programs and has brought Tree Time Services Inc.’s archaeology roadshow to new communities and events.

Brittany is authorized to hold permits in Alberta.

Reid Graham is a Permit Archaeologist, working with Tree Time Services since 2013. Under the direction of the Senior Project Archaeologist, he oversees archaeological survey for forestry and aggregate projects throughout northern and central Alberta.

Reid has a broad background in North American archaeology, with a particular emphasis on with the Boreal and Plains regions of Canada and northwestern United States. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Winnipeg in 2011, he focused his research interests on a series of 2,500 to 1,500 year old bison kills sites in Alberta through his Masters of Arts at the University of Alberta in 2014.

Currently, Reid is focusing on developing predictive models for archaeological sites, by using an artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to help with long term development and land use planning.

Drew Patterson is the General Manager of TreeTime.ca. He is responsible for growing the company while managing its day-to-day operations.

Drew has been fascinated by science since he was quite young, but also appreciated the social side of life. He was an active social and political organizer throughout his post secondary education and graduated from Thompson Rivers University with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Sociology in 2001.

He has held management positions in sales, marketing, and business development, one of which gave him the opportunity to complete his Masters in Business Administration (MBA) through Charles Sturt University in 2005.

Drew joined the Tree Time Services team in September 2013. He brings a holistic approach to business operations and sales with the belief that strategic growth should be customer, process, and quality driven. His goal is to continue building on the value provided to customers through TreeTime.ca.

Drew comes by his love of business and botany honestly; his father owned a market garden greenhouse operation, as well as a computer store and consultancy. Growing up immersed in a family business, Drew brings not only business savvy to this position but also experience from the customer side as an avid gardener.

In his leisure time, Drew can be found fly fishing, trading heirloom seeds, spending time with his five-year-old-daughter, and engaging in “mad scientist projects” like making homemade sauerkraut, brewing apple cider juiced by an old washing machine, or growing red wiggler worms for vermicomposting.