Pine River Contracting
A brief history
Started by Mathieu Robidas in 2021 as Keeno Forestry. We started solely as a falling and forest health company. With a 4 year direct reward contract for beetle management in the east Kootenays, that got the company off the ground. Robidas has since moved on to teaching university students about forestry in Coticook QC. The company was taken over by Andrew Simmonds and Chris Cayabyab in 2025, and changed to “Pine River Contracting” in 2026. Now we specialize in wildfire training, consulting, falling and forest health.
Meet Our Team:
Andrew Simmonds
Owner | QFT | Falling Supervisor
Started in the forest industry in 2014, Andrew has extensive knowledge and experience in logging, falling and silviculture.
He started working wildfire in 2015, and has since built up qualifications in incident management as an IC3, and years of working in high stakes structure protection operations.
Chris Cayabyab
Owner | Faller | Wildfire Trainer
Started with Alberta wildfire in 2015 on a rappel crew, Chris built up a qualification background in incident management, fire behavior analysis and dangerous tree mitigation.
He started working in forest health in 2016, and has since earned his BC Faller certification, managed forest health projects, and worked in production logging environments across BC.
