Richard Kerbes

Co-founder · SOS Trees Coalition · company speakers →

Richard is one of four people in 1992 who started the non-profit organization SOS Elms, later to become SOS Trees. They were concerned with the news that Dutch Elm Disease was expanding and killing American elms in southeast Saskatchewan. He has served on the Board in various roles ever since. Born and raised on a small farm in the Aspen Parklands of Alberta, he studied Zoology at the universities of Alberta and Western Ontario. He enjoyed a career with the Canadian Wildlife Service as a biologist for over 40 years working on conservation of Arctic-nesting geese.

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