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July/August 2018
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THE DAVEY BULLETIN
Members of the Tree Care Industry
Association's (TCIA) accreditation council
recently held their annual meeting at
the Davey corporate campus.
TCIA manages its accreditation
membership as a third-party consumer
confidence program. Its goal is to
help tree care services clients find
companies that operate safely,
legally and ethically. TCIA accredited
companies are required to meet a
63-point checklist for approval as part
of the rigorous accreditation process.
BRINGING BACK BUFFALO, THE CITY OF TREES
Once known as "The City of Trees," Buffalo is ramping up
efforts to grow its way back to that title.
Since the city was hit by a devastating, surprise snowstorm
in October of 2006, local groups have been on a mission
to plant more trees and keep the young trees healthy.
After more than 57,000 trees were killed in the snowstorm,
drastically depleting Buffalo's canopy, the need for trees
has never been greater. Re-Tree Western New York was
founded later in 2006 and made it their mission to replant
all the trees damaged and lost from the storm. Since 2006,
nearly 27,000 have been planted in the effort to replenish
Buffalo's tree canopy.
The CommuniTREES Project is an effort to train Buffalo
residents to be tree stewards for the trees planted since
the storm through a series of informational courses. Lori
Brockelbank, associate consultant in the Buffalo region for
Davey Resource Group, participated in the CommuniTREES
project this year as a course instructor. Thanks to the
devotion of tree-minded people and organizations, Buffalo
now has about 50 more tree stewards knowledgably caring
for the thousands of juvenile trees throughout the city.
Lucas Myzel, an inventory arborist for Davey Resource Group,
participated in the tree steward training this spring for the
CommuniTREES project.
TCIA VISITS DAVEY
Members of the TCIA accreditation council who gathered at the Davey campus included:
Gerry Breton, Paul Fletcher, Cody Forristal, Bob Good, Mike Neal, Sandra Reid, Bob Rouse,
Mick Saulman, Charlie Tentas and Tim Walsh.
Al Zelaya, urban forester, the Davey Institute, conducted a webinar hosted by
the Canadian Institute of Forestry focusing on i-Tree tools for improving urban
forest resilience and community health.
The idea of the webinar was to introduce tools that Canadians could use, such
as i-Tree Canopy, i-Tree Eco and i-Tree Design, Zelaya said.
Zelaya hoped attendees left the webinar understanding that there are amazing
ways to look at vegetation and the benefits it can provide communities.
"It's about changing perceptions and opening their eyes to the services and
values that vegetation right in front of them provides," he said. "Showing that
trees are not only providing economic values, but many other social and
environmental benefits that i-Tree and other tools can't really quantify."
TEACHING I-TREE IN CANADA
