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19 March/April 2022 | THE DAVEY BULLETIN Non-profit Michigan Green Industry Association (MGIA) awards a day of service to organizations or communities in Michigan who can benefit from donations of time and equipment. MGIA contacted Bob Paris, district manager, South Detroit office, for help at Taylor Conservatory & Botanical Gardens. Chad Allen, assistant district manager, organized the volunteer day at Taylor Conservatory. "We were able to get 12 trees pruned and three trees removed for them," Allen said. In December, Allen, along with Zach La Combe, sales arborist, Felipe Robles, PHC technician trainee, Bryan Alley, trimmer, Eddie Bennett, foreman, John Laporte, foreman, and Anthony Liwag, trimmer, pruned and removed the trees. Trees pruned included red maples, spruces, two silver maples, eastern redbuds, and a hackberry. Three mulberries were removed. The facility is funded by the non-profit Taylor Conservatory Foundation. SOUTH DETROIT OFFICE DONATES DAY OF SERVICE John LaPorte, foreman, during a volunteer day at Taylor Conservatory. The gardens are maintained for public enjoyment and to promote environmental preservation. DRG TEAMS INSTALL BALD EAGLE CAMERAS Clay Kusbach, senior environmental scientist, Davey Resource Group (DRG) Environmental Consulting, was contacted by Brett Peters, assistant director of the University of Notre Dame's Linked Experimental Ecosystem Facility (ND-LEEF), asking to help mount a replacement live feed field camera on a bald eagle nest. The camera failed last spring in St. Patrick's County Park in South Bend, Indiana. "It was pretty time sensitive because of the upcoming breeding season and the popularity of the park itself and the camera. Thousands of people tune in and want to watch the nest," Kusbach said. He worked with DRG's Southern Ohio Asian Longhorned Beetle team to donate two climbers to remove the old, damaged camera, and mount a new, updated one. "The bald eagle nest is six feet wide and is located about 50-feet high in a healthy, established sycamore tree, making the climb itself a challenge," Kusbach said. John Casnellie, inventory arborist technician, and Greg Holthaus, inventory arborist, installed the new camera. Another bald eagle camera was installed by Casnellie and Holthaus in Cardinal Land Conservancy's (CLC) newer nature preserve, located where the Little Miami River meets the Ohio River in Cincinnati. The nest is home to the much-loved bald eagle couple, Bonnie and Clyde. The project began when Andy Dickerson, executive director, Cardinal Land Conservancy, contacted Dave Benninger, area manager, DRG Environmental Consulting, and said CLC applied for a grant to have an eagle camera installed, and wondered if Davey would like to be involved. "I was impressed with the work our folks did. They were incredibly professional," Benninger said. "The camera has already become a sensation around the Cincinnati area." STEWARDSHIP Bonnie, of Cincinnati's much-loved bald eagle pair, Bonnie and Clyde, laid the pair's first egg of 2022. It is the only active bald eagle nest in the city limits of Cincinnati. Watch Cardinal Land Conservancy's live eagle camera installed by DRG's Southern Ohio Environmental Consulting services team. Watch ND-LEEF's live eagle camera installed by DRG Environmental Consulting employees at St. Patrick's County Park in South Bend, Ind.

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