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January/February 2021
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THE DAVEY BULLETIN
PREPARING FOR A
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
Ahead of the first U.S. Presidential Debate of 2020,
hosted by the Cleveland Clinic in September, crews from
the Cleveland West territory and East Cleveland office spent
weeks preparing the Sheila and Eric Samson Pavilion and
grounds for the event.
Vito Monteleone, branch manager, Cleveland West, met
with the Clinic's task force to put together a laundry list
of to-do items and create a schedule for prioritizing which
areas needed work first for security reasons. A crew of
about a dozen mowed the lawns, shut down and drained the
irrigation system, removed throwable-sized stones in case of
protests, mulched and then tied up tree limbs near the press
area. While that work was performed, three crew members
from the East Cleveland office fertilized trees around the
The Samson Pavilion at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.
Photo credit: Cleveland Clinic
A beautiful American elm tree will
add character to a new riverfront
development in Austin, Texas, thanks
to input from the South Austin R/C
office and the Davey Institute.
Heath Gober, assistant district
manager, South Austin, teamed up
with Sarah Ruark, technical advisor,
to take a sonogram-like photo of the
interior of the elm, which stands on
the steep embankment of Waller
creek. The area is being redeveloped
by the Waterloo Greenway
Conservancy to create the Waterloo
Greenway, a 1.5-mile park system
using the creek as a focal point to
link downtown Austin to picturesque
Lady Bird Lake.
Ruark, with the assistance of climber
Jose Pascual Garcia, performed a
sonic tomography scan on the tree.
The scan provides an image of the
internal condition of the tree to show
if any decay is present.
SONIC TOMOGRAPHY HELPS SHAPE AUSTIN RIVER WALK
"The conservancy wanted to make
sure the tree was sound, structurally
solid, and strong enough to design
their park around it for the foreseeable
future," Gober said. "And we were able
to provide those results for them."
Gober said Davey's examination
showed the tree will add valuable
benefits to the greenway project but
should be re-evaluated
within the next three
to five years to
ensure its health
remains strong.
VISION
property and then pruned 115 tulip poplars and some street
trees near the pavilion. After the event, the crews spent
additional weeks repairing all damage done to the turf and
making it look like a major event had never happened.
Above and Left: Climber Jose Pascual Garcia
takes part in a sonic tomography scan of
an American elm tree in Austin, Texas.
Inset: The results of a sonic tomography
scan show this American elm tree is strong
with no significant decay or defects.
