Hazel Boyd
Associate, Forestry
BSc(Dist) Sustainable Forest Management; MICFor
Although now specialising in woodland creation, Hazel has a background in forest management and regulatory requirements.
Although now specialising in woodland creation, Hazel has a background in forest management and regulatory requirements.
She’s not only worked within the forest industry for over 20 years but was brought up in a forestry contracting family, which has provided her with a sound understanding of the opportunities and challenges which the industry, as a whole, provides.
Hazel believes that woodland creation is an exciting combination of art and science with a myriad of opportunities to think outside of the box whilst working with nature and ensuring that best silvicultural practices are upheld.
Projects she has been involved with to date include working extensively with stakeholders to ensure that opportunities are fully developed and explored, whilst constraints are appropriately mitigated.
The regulatory experience she acquired whilst working with Scottish Forestry, to approve over 4000 hectares of new woodlands within the Perth and Argyll Conservancy area, drives Hazel to take great care in meeting due diligence obligations and ensuring that woodland designs meet with applicable governing requirements.
Key relevant project experience
Leading on several woodland creation projects, on a range of landscape scales, throughout the west coast of Scotland to achieve a variety of landowner objectives.
Landscape-scale woodland creation
Design and implementation of an estate wide, landscape scale (over 2500 hectare) native woodland creation project which encompasses new woodland creation, native pinewood restoration and restoration of a declining SSSI woodland. Project is designed to flexibly develop over 10-15 years to take into consideration landscape changes, biodiversity impacts, population interactions and budgets.
Whole farm woodland planning
Design of a native woodland expansion project to maximise the land potential, retaining the viability of the farming unit whilst the impacts of agricultural policy changes are ascertained. Project comprising a holistic whole farm woodland creation design which has been divided into two distinctive phases, providing flexibility to the farming unit.