Fire & ecosystem response
Assessing the effects of wildfire and prescribed burning on vegetation, ecosystems, and wildlife habitat, and translating findings into management guidance.
Ecological Research & Resource Management · British Columbia
Independent ecological consulting grounded in decades of British Columbia forest and fire research — turning field data into practical guidance for sustainable resource management.
About
Hamilton Ecological Consulting is led by Evelyn Hamilton, an ecologist with more than 30 years of experience in British Columbia's forest and fire ecology. For much of her career she worked in the Research Branch of the BC Forest Service, where she managed the Ecology and Earth Sciences Section.
Her work centres on building and leading multi-agency, interdisciplinary teams to solve natural-resource management challenges — with deep knowledge of British Columbia's ecosystems. Recent focus areas include ecosystem response to fire, non-timber forest products, and adaptation to a changing climate. She has also held an adjunct faculty appointment at Royal Roads University and is affiliated with the Bulkley Valley Research Centre.
Services
Applied ecological research and synthesis to inform land and resource decisions.
Assessing the effects of wildfire and prescribed burning on vegetation, ecosystems, and wildlife habitat, and translating findings into management guidance.
Research on culturally and ecologically significant plants — including berry-producing shrubs — and their management.
Helping resource managers anticipate and adapt to changing ecological conditions across British Columbia's forests.
Building and leading interdisciplinary teams, pooling field datasets, and synthesizing evidence to answer applied management questions.
Selected projects
Led the team that rescued at-risk fire-effects field data from central British Columbia into a single database (db2020) and used meta-analysis to answer land managers' priority questions about fire, recovery, and resilience. Funded by FESBC and the BC Ministry of Forests.
Contracted by the Province of BC (Ministry of Forests; Dr. Garth Mowat) to study black huckleberry and soapberry as food sources in grizzly bear habitat — modeling how logging, site, and climate shape berry abundance. Contracts RE24REM102 / GS25RMB0008.
For research collaborations, consulting inquiries, or project work in British Columbia.