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January/February 2025
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THE DAVEY BULLETIN
Davey teamed up with Tree Research
and Education Endowment Fund
(TREE Fund) to create The Davey
Tree Expert Company Community
Arboriculture Education Grant
(The Davey Fund).
The grant was created to support
community-based arboricultural
DAVEY COMMUNITY ARBORICULTURE EDUCATION GRANT
Encourage your community partners to apply!
education in the U.S. As canopy
increases, trees will need care. To
meet that need, education about trees
at all levels needs to increase, which
is why Davey pledged $250,000 to
create The Davey Fund.
If you are donating to the TREE Fund, it
can be earmarked to The Davey Fund.
Davey employees can encourage
community organizations they are a
part of or support to apply for a grant.
Two grants of up to $5,000 will be
awarded annually, beginning in 2025.
Applications must be submitted to
the TREE Fund by March 15, 2025.
Lorraine Fountain, sales arborist, Hartney Greymont, a
Davey company, Concord office, Residential/Commercial
services, volunteered to assist MassWildlife in temporarily
securing a bald eagle chick from a tree for research purposes
in Grafton, Massachusetts.
Fountain, along with a member from MassWildlife, climbed
a white pine tree using a previously established throwline.
Fountain then used a metal pole with a hoop on it to lift the
chick from under its wings and into a canvas bag, which was
then lowered carefully to the ground. After a crew on the
ground took the chick's weight, measurements, and a blood
sample, they placed an identification band around its leg
and sent it back up to its nest.
"My parent-in-laws are a big part of
the bald eagle population restoration
in Massachusetts and were the ones
that got me involved in this project,"
Fountain said. "The fact that they
trusted me to help with something so
important, and that I got to utilize the
climbing skills I've learned in my role
at Davey meant the world to me."
SALES ARBORIST ASSISTS LOCAL WILDLIFE AGENCY
Lorraine Fountain is pictured with the eagle
chick in its nest full of carp fish skulls and
bones. Fountain and the MassWildlife crew
had to work quickly to "band" the chick to
avoid an incoming storm. The eagle chick was
being "banded" for population monitoring,
and to study any lasting chemicals that may
be found in its blood, like polychlorinated
biphenyls, which are man-made chemicals
from the industrial period still found in the
environment and animals today.
To learn more about The Davey Tree
Expert Company Community
Arboriculture Education Grant,
including details about the application
process, criteria for selection, and
more, scan the QR code and click on
the link to reach treefund.org/daveytree.
If you wish to make a donation
to The Davey Fund, scan the QR
code to reach the TREE Fund's
donation site, and earmark the
donation to The Davey Fund.
