Amelia Needoba, Principal & Senior Forester - PMP,  ISA Certified Arborist®

Amelia has more than 20 years of experience in forest management and urban forestry both as municipal staff and as a consultant. Amelia has been a project manager or leading team member on the development of urban forest strategic, regulatory and technical planning projects for dozens of municipalities across Canada, the USA and Australia. Amelia has extensive experience revising and developing tree bylaws and environmental development permit area guidelines. Her work has won two Canadian Institute of Planning Excellence awards. Prior to joining DHC, Amelia was an Urban Forester for the City of Melbourne (Australia), where her team’s work on the urban forest strategy and precinct plans won the Victorian and National Landscape Architecture Awards, and their engagement work won the 2014 IAP2 Core Values Environment Award.