About Us

M&R Forestland Management is dedicated to providing independent forestry advice and services to help clients maximise the full value from their forestry investment.

Our staff consists of 14 professionally trained foresters in Blenheim, Nelson and Taupo. We also have a full time freshwater ecologist as part of the team. M&R as a group has decades of combined experience in the regions we service and are familiar with the majority of the forests in our areas so we can usually bring first-hand knowledge of their history and potential issues to any discussion.

M&R manages several significant forestry estates within the Marlborough, Kaikoura, Nelson and King Country regions. These estates have comprehensive management plans, covering silviculture, harvesting and environmental protection.

 

Our Team

Kyle Heagney - Director / General Manager

Blenheim, New Zealand

Bachelor of Forestry Science, 19 years of forestry experience. 

Siobhan Allen - Director / Forester

Blenheim, New Zealand

Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Forestry Science, 18 years of forestry experience.

Patrick Wilkins - Director / Harvesting Forester

BLENHEIM, NEW ZEALAND

Bachelor of Commerce (Agriculture), Graduate Diploma in Forestry, 10 years of Forestry Experience

Bachelor of Science (Zoology), Bachelor of Arts, 3 years of forestry experience.

Anna Batty - Environmental Manager

Blenheim, New Zealand

NZ Certificate of Forestry, 38 years of forestry experience.

Phillip Woodward - Estate Manager

Blenheim, New Zealand

Bradley Stebbings - Harvest Manager

BLENHEIM, NEW ZEALAND

National Certificate in Infrastructure Works (Forestry), National Certificate in Forestry Operations, 20 Years of forestry experience.

Reece Spooner - Forester & Estate Manager

Blenheim, New Zealand

National Certificate in Agriculture, 4 Years of Forestry Experience.

 
Olivia Crighton - Forester & Estate Manager

Blenheim, New Zealand

Bachelor of Forestry Science, 1 Years Forestry experience

 
Hayden Whitehead - Rimu Forestland Estate Manager

Diploma in Forest Management, 8 years of Forestry Experience

Taupo, New Zealand

 
Joshua Patterson - Forester & Estate Manager

Blenheim, New Zealand

1 Year of Forestry Experience

Julia Watson - Technical Forester & GIS Analyst

MANGAWHAI, New Zealand

Bachelor of Forestry Science, 8 Years of Forestry Experience

Wayne Wells - Harvesting Forester

Nelson, New Zealand

NZ Certificate of Forestry, 38 years of forestry experience.

Diploma in Forest Management, 30 years of forestry experience.

Richard Prince - Harvest Planner

BLENHEIM, New Zealand

Bachelor of Forestry Science, 1 Year of Forestry Experience.

Campbell King - Forester

BLENHEIM, New Zealand 

Lisa Bourgeois - Administrator

Blenheim, New Zealand

4 Years of Forestry Experience

Bachelor of Commerce, Graduate Diploma in Professional Accounting

Emma Morrow - Management Accountant

Blenheim, New Zealand

 

Our Clients

Our clients range from large public and private sector companies through to small-scale forest owners, such as farm foresters. In total we manage approximately 32,000 hectares of production forest land and produce and sell approximately 400,000 tonnes of logs per year. 

 

OUR PROCESSES AND TECHNOLOGIES

We have invested in technology and formal, independently verified processes to improve our efficiency, accuracy, and health and safety and environmental performance such as:

  • PSLOG, log delivery tracking and invoicing system to manage logging income and costs.

  • TIGERMOTH growth modelling software to predict future growth and yield of plantation species for tree crop valuations, harvest planning, logging costing negotiations.

  • Purpose-built economic appraisal process which facilitates harvesting decisions and allows tracking of actual performance in comparison to budgets.

  • DRONE DEPLOY for field based drone data collection, aerial imagery and analysis.

  • ROAD ENG geometric engineering design software for infrastructure design and assessment.

  • ArcGIS for mapping and data collection.

  • GEOMASTER, tree crop stand record management system.

  • VAULT system for electronic mobile health and safety and environmental auditing and reporting.

  • SURVEY 123 for operational quality control assessments and environmental monitoring and reporting.