Felicity Brooke

Felicity Brooke started a career in park management in 1987 in a term position based in Yarram to write a management plan for Tarra-Bulga National Park and completed her career as the Parks Victoria east region coordinator of Interpretation, Information and Education (2015-2024). After completing the draft plan of management at 24yrs old she thought grounding her theory in practice was needed so became a ranger in 1989 spending the next 20yrs working as a ranger and ranger in charge in 7 parks across 3 regions of Parks Victoria.  After 9 yrs as Ranger in Charge at Mt Buffalo 2022-2011 and 2 mega fires later (2003 and 2007) she moved into landscape scale threat abatement programs as the operations manager for the Alps Intensive Management Program (AIM), controlling invasive species such as feral horses, deer, cattle, English Broom, and Grey Sallow Willow to protect high-value assets like Alpine Peatlands. Felicity has a Bachelor of Applied Science in Environmental Assessment and Land Use Policy and a certificate IV in training. She was also president of the Victorian Rangers Association during the early and late 90s and has a strong interest in the professionalisation of the role of the ranger as a land manager and the promotion of the role as a multidisciplinary one .