Juri Peepre
	
Juri Peepre grew up around Guelph, Ontario.  He has worked on conservation issues in government across Western Canada with Parks Canada and through the Wild Rivers survey in Northern B.C. He helped to start the Yukon chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) in the late 1980s when he and his wife, Sarah Locke, moved north after Sarah got a job with CBC. CPAWS mission was advocacy for protected areas and parks. They were part of a national endangered species campaign to complete a network of protected spaces across the country. One way to complete their goal was to support Yukon First Nations in their land claim negotiations. One of their biggest successes was the establishment of Tombstone Territorial Park and their other effort was protection of the Peel watershed which started off as the Three Rivers Campaign. Peepre was the executive director until 2004.((Jesse Winter, "CPAWS Yukon founder joins Order of Canada." //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 15 January 2014.))

Peepre moved to the British Columbia Kootenays to work as a project manager for the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative to establish an unbroken corridor for wildlife. He was named to the Order of Canada in 2014.((Jesse Winter, "CPAWS Yukon founder joins Order of Canada." //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 15 January 2014.))