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Our Team
We have a highly qualified and experienced team of ecologists, landscape architects and NRM professionals who are ready to bring their diverse range of skills to your project.
Our staff have extensive experience over much of Victoria including:
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Grasslands
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Grassy woodlands
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Box-ironbark forests
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Tall forests of the Central Highlands
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Otway Ranges
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Alpine
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Macedon Ranges
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Strzelecki region
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Mallee
Daniel Young
Director &
Principal Ecologist
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Daniel Young has a degree in Biological Sciences from La Trobe University with a double major in botany and population genetics. Daniel has been working in the conservation and land management sector for over 12 years, initially undertaking hands-on land management before transitioning into consulting and subsequently establishing Tailored Restoration Ecology and Conservation (TREC) Land Services in 2017.
Daniel has considerable experience working as a botanist and ecologist throughout Victoria and has worked in a wide variety of vegetation types and bioregions. He has completed flora and fauna assessments including targeted surveys, EVC mapping, weed mapping and a wide range of other ecological related tasks.
Prior to training as a consultant, Daniel spent many years undertaking active ecosystem restoration works throughout many areas of Victoria, coming to specialise in Grassland and Grassy Woodlands to the north and west of Melbourne. Daniel has been involved in a considerable amount of conservation restoration activities including sensitive weed control. Many of these projects involved working closely with land managers to develop a program of works which would meet the long-term restoration objectives of the site and include a diverse range of best practice restoration techniques.
Adrian Lamande
Senior Consulting Ecologist & Botanist
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Adrian holds a Master’s in Environmental Management from the University of Newcastle. He has worked as an ecologist specialising in vegetation monitoring and management for over 15 years. He has considerable experience completing vegetation quality assessments, habitat hectare assessments, and flora and fauna surveys.
Adrian has lectured at Victoria University, developing and delivering course material for a range of units including Australian Plants, Fundamentals of Ecology, Environmental Rehabilitation and Australian Landscapes and Biota.
Adrian is currently engaged as a Senior Consulting Ecologist and Botanist at TREC Land Services and provides consulting services to both government and private clients, as well as having a key mentoring role for our newer team members. His previous roles have included management and senior consulting botanist responsibilities. In addition, he collected threatened species data and performed offset assessments for the Living Murray Project at the icon sites Mulcra island and Hattah-kulkyne.
Finn Devonport
Senior Restoration Ecologist & Team Leader
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Finn holds a Diploma of Conservation and Ecosystem Management from RMIT University.
Finn has over 4 years’ hands-on experience in restoration ecology including remote area flora and fauna survey, roadside surveys, and on-ground restoration and land management works. In particular, he has extensive grassland management experience and a great understanding of systems and processes which compliment his restoration work.
Finn has worked for private organisations and local and state government agencies having lead teams for Hume City Council, Parks Victoria, Wyndham City Council and Brimbank City Council.
Finn works as a team leader across a diverse range of restoration projects for TREC. He is an accomplished project manager and is responsible for several of our large contracts.
Leiana Keogh
Senior Restoration Ecologist & Team Leader
Leiana holds a Diploma of Conservation and Ecosystem Management from RMIT University.
Leiana has extensive land management experience having successfully delivered a large number of projects for TREC in her capacity as team leader. Leiana primarily focuses on the suburban areas of Melbourne including Hume City Council, Merri-bek City Council and Brimbank City Council.
Leiana has also been heavily involved in delivering various good neighbour projects for DEECA, often in conjunction with Parks Victoria and private landholders. She has excellent communication and liaison skills and often serves as the conduit between the clients and the works teams, communicating the project requirements and ensuring the quality of work is of the highest standard.
In addition to her land management responsibilities, Leiana is the key staff member responsible for the long term forecasting of works and resource allocation at TREC. She also co-ordinates the induction and onboarding process for new staff members, and takes an active role in the administration of our internal OHS processes.
Rachel McIntosh
Ecologist &
Project Manager
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Rachel McIntosh has a degree in Wildlife and Conservation Biology from La Trobe University (with first-class honors). She has over 5 years’ experience in conservation ecology working on both vegetation and fauna projects.
Rachel has extensive experience in plant species surveys, vegetation surveys for fauna habitat, bird surveys including using playback/callback to identify species, spotlight and nestbox surveys. She has also worked on threatened species projects for the Eltham Copper Butterfly and Mallee Emu-Wren.
Rachel has worked for TREC since 2018 contributing to a broad diversity of projects including numerous roadside vegetation surveys, the Melbourne Water Living Communities, Living Waterways project, vegetation management plans and on ground restoration work.
Prior to retraining as an ecologist, Rachel worked in systems and data management. She brings her skills in this sector to her project management work at TREC.
Rachel is currently part time with TREC while she undertakes a PhD in Landscape Ecology at La Trobe University, researching fire ecology in the Mallee region of Victoria.
Melissa Stagg
Senior Landscape Architect
Melissa holds a Bachelor and a Masters of Landscape Architecture from the RMIT University School of Architecture and Design, and brings over a decade of experience in landscape architecture to the company. She joined TREC to work with the team in designing and delivering landscape projects, which aren’t only beautiful and functional, but also have ecological integrity.
With a passion for our natural environments and a good knowledge of indigenous flora, Melissa has also been engaged in the NRM and landscape restoration sector since 2017, including in the indigenous seed bank sector. Across her career, Melissa has delivered a wide range of design and NRM projects, including programs working with rare and threatened plant species. Melissa has in areas throughout Victoria, across range of bioregions and vegetation types.
Melissa's career has included extensive fieldwork, gaining practical first-hand knowledge and experience of Victorian natural environments and how they function. Using this insight, Melissa has developed a design methodology which brings basic principles of landscape restoration ecology, together with landscape design principals, to produce more well-rounded, and environmentally sensitive landscape design outcomes.
Working across a broad range of sectors, Melissa has delivered biodiverse and sustainable landscape designs, across both urban and regional environments. She has experience working with local, state and federal government, as well as organisations across urban development, private landholders, educational and not-for-profit sectors.
Working alongside the team of consulting ecologists, botanists and zoologists at TREC, and drawing on her experience working in the conservation sector, Melissa assists on a broad range of projects across the business. By doing this, she ontinues to expand and enrich her knowledge of flora and fauna. This always growing knowledge base continues to feed her passion, and helps to grow her ever evolving approach to designing landscapes across both urbanised and natural environs.
Graham Jury
Consulting Ecologist & Zoologist
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Graham is a Masters researcher in Conservation Ecology at La Trobe University and holds a BSc in Biological Sciences with a Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental Sciences from the University of Canterbury. He has a broad cross-disciplinary research background in Australia and New Zealand, including content analysis, literature review and research interviews. He previously worked as a reference writer for EBSCO Industries in both science and humanities.
In Victoria, he draws upon his lifelong interest for entomology, terrestrial ecology and animal behaviour to inform and direct his engagement with restoration ecology and biodiversity conservation. Graham has worked locally in the restoration ecology sector since 2015 and has a particular passion for slow-shift successional restoration and the use of Victorian fauna as site quality indicators.
Graham's current areas of expertise include invertebrate, bird and reptile ID, as well as VVP grassland ecology, botany and open sward restoration. Graham’s Masters research involves cataloguing and quantifying the pollinator community of the severely depleted local tree-form of the Silver Banksia in Central and Western Victoria. This project seeks to highlight the ecological services and requirements of this threatened tree across a range of sites, in order to aid land managers to facilitate its gradual return to these landscapes.
Graham is broadly experienced in multiple fauna survey techniques including Elliot trapping, camera trapping, tile surveys and invertebrate collection. Graham has professional experience with many threatened and protected species in Victoria including Altona Skipper Butterfly, Striped Legless Lizard, White-footed Dunnart, Brush-tailed Phascogale, Growling Grass Frog, and Glossy Grass Skink. He has supervised Golden Sun Moth surveys across multiple sites for more than five years and assisted and advised in the annual management of high-quality S. plana grasslands both in Melbourne and broader Victoria.
Charlotte Hall
Consulting
Ecologist
Charlotte holds a Bachelors of Wildlife and Conservation Biology from La Trobe University (with First Class Honours in Urban Landscape Ecology).
Charlotte began working with TREC in 2025, and has experience in flora, fauna, and aquatic surveys, landscape scale and habitat connectivity analysis, and GIS mapping. Charlotte has worked in conservation related roles since 2021, in on ground management, and the indigenous nursery and seedbank sector, all predominantly focused on the Victorian Volcanic Plains.
Charlotte's previous fieldwork and survey experience has spanned many Victorian bioregions including the Glenelg Plain, Victorian Volcanic Plain, Murray Mallee, Highlands – Southern Fall, and Victorian Alps.
Charlotte's Honours research focused on nest box suitability for Inland Sugar Gliders in urbanised environments with a particular focus on the impact of canopy connectivity and infrastructure density across the landscape within Banyule. Through this project Charlotte also spent a large amount of time working with community groups and on community engagement in conservation.
Currently, Charlotte is working on projects such as Hume City Council Conservation Management Plans, Whittlesea Shire Council vegetation assessments, and threatened species surveys, as well as supporting the team with GIS mapping.
Danielle Harmshaw
Consulting Ecologist & Junior Landscape Architect
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Danielle holds a Bachelor of Environmental Science (Wildlife and Conservation Biology) and is currently completing a Master’s in Landscape Architecture at The University of Melbourne. Her studio work focuses on waterway management and native landscape design, with a strong emphasis on Indigenous design principles and engagement.
Danielle has diverse experience across environmental management disciplines, including restoration ecology, renewable energy, waste management, and strategic sustainability. While working at Deakin University, she led a university-wide sustainability behavior change program, earning the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Environmental Sustainability.’ Since joining TREC Land Services, Danielle has contributed to various ecological consulting projects, including the City of Whittlesea’s 10-Year Fuel Management Partnership Plan. In this role, she helped identify existing and new partnership opportunities through stakeholder engagement and facilitated Traditional Owner-led burns.
Currently, Danielle leads Melbourne Water’s Liveable Communities and Liveable Waterways incentive program as the Site Assessor for the Lower Yarra and Upper Maribyrnong Catchments. This initiative fosters customer and community partnerships to develop projects focused on waterway vegetation management, stormwater management, and rural land management, all aimed at improving water quality and delivering targeted environmental outcomes.
Amy McCarthy
Restoration Ecologist
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Amy holds a diploma of Conservation and Ecosystem Management from RMIT, and a Bachelor of Environmental Science, majoring in Wildlife and Conservation Biology at Deakin University.
Amy began working with TREC on our restoration crew working on a broad range of weed management and revegetation programs. Amy now works on a range of fauna projects including Golden Sun Moth Surveys, Growling Grass Frog Surveys and Bibron’s Toadlet surveys. Amy has extensive experience in various types of fauna survey techniques, including camera trapping, Elliott trapping, drift fence and pitfall trapping, spotlighting, and using playback/callback to identify bird and frog species.
Amy has also volunteered in wildlife rehabilitation shelters and native plant nurseries. She has special interests in bird life, grassland flora and fauna, arboreal mammals, and terrestrial macroinvertebrates.
This Could Be You!
TREC Land Services are regularly seeking new staff to assist us in delivering the diverse consulting and land management works we are currently delivering for a range of clients across Victoria.
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