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THE DAVEY BULLETIN
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July/August 2021
VISION
SPRUCING UP AN URBAN PARK
A crew from the East Cleveland Residential/Commercial
services office provided a day's work to partner with Project
Evergreen, a national non-profit committed to helping people
work together to create healthy green spaces, revitalize
parks and public green spaces. John Kruse, foreman, and
John Petroski, trimmer, from the East Cleveland office and
Davey employees John Kruse, John Petroski (pictured top left
and at left) and Jessica Harmotta (pictured top right) clean up
the landscape at Helen Simpson Park in Cleveland as part of a
partnership with Project Evergreen.
Jessica Harmotta, environmental scientist, Davey Resource
Group, spent a day at Helen Simpson Park on Cleveland's
West Side performing two full removals of dead trees as
well as pruning deadwood from a dozen oak trees around
the park.
Tedd Bartlett, district manager, said Davey has partnered
with Project Evergreen for many projects in recent years,
including in the Detroit area. "Parks like this are often
overlooked green spaces for urban communities and we're
more than happy to spend time making them healthier
and look better," Bartlett said.
RAPTORS PROTECT NEW TREES IN INDIANA
Life is returning to a 2.1-acre wetland
mitigation site outside Evansville,
Indiana. Shortly after Davey Resource
Group (DRG) Environmental Consulting
services installed more than 150
native tree species, employees started
noticing mice and voles nibbling on the
bases of the saplings. Marc Woernle,
principal consultant, DRG, tried using
a pepper-based repellent but with no
luck. Instead, he turned to nature's
food chain for rodent management:
birds of prey. Using leftover wood
DRG used leftover wood material from a
project to create these makeshift perches
for birds of prey to help manage the rodent
population of a restored wetland.
material from another site, Woernle
installed a few perches for the
red-shoulder hawk and kestrels that
had been spotted in the area. Since
then, rodent sightings are down, the
trees are growing, and interesting
new animals like the Eastern box turtle
and countless songbirds have been
spotted at the site.
