In her 24 years with Cows and Fish, Norine has focused on working with landowners, communities and natural resource professionals to help them recognize the value of riparian areas, and what they can do to maintain these areas as healthy, productive pieces of our landscape.  Her work with community leaders, organisations and agencies emphasises sharing lessons learned in effective program design and delivery. She combines her wetland ecology research experiences from the University of Alberta and farm upbringing in central Alberta with extensive development of new outreach and monitoring tools at Cows and Fish, to help bridge science, management and education around riparian ecosystems.  She believes strongly that those who manage and use the land are critical to ensuring a healthy landscape through their management choices.      

Norine holds a diploma in Renewable Resources from NAIT and a Bachelor of Science, with Specialization in Zoology, related to wildlife conservation, from the University of Alberta.