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January/February 2026
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THE DAVEY BULLETIN
Earlier this year, Cleveland Zoo staff toured the Davey
Nursery in Wooster, Ohio, in hopes they could use Davey
trees in their expansion of their Primate Forest rainforest
exhibit. While driving around the space with Rick Hanshaw,
the zoo tagged 27 trees at the nursery that will be planted
in the landscape outside of the exhibit.
After stopping by an older field of Bradford Pears, which
could no longer be sold due to the tree species being put
on Ohio's invasive species list, the group saw a new
LUNCH IS ON DAVEY AT THE CLEVELAND ZOO
Over 1,000 trees were planted
throughout several parks and an
arboretum in 2025 through Davey's
sports partnerships, making
communities where we live and
work greener.
Through "Trees for Threes" with
PLANTING TREES WITH DAVEY'S SPORTS PARTNERS
the NBA Cleveland Cavaliers, 582
trees were planted across five
locations in the Cleveland area last year.
For "Score for the Trees" with the
NHL Pittsburgh Penguins, 142 trees
were spread throughout three spots
around Pittsburgh. The "Swing for
the Trees" program with the MLB
Cleveland Guardians brought 185
trees to four Cleveland locations, and
with the "Birdies Fore Trees" through
The Kaulig Companies Championship,
which hosts the top PGA golfers 50
years old and older, a total of 172 trees
were planted between two areas in
Northeast Ohio.
Plantings are already planned for
2026, with 663 trees on the books for
the Cleveland Cavaliers partnership,
168 set for the Cleveland Guardians,
135 for the Pittsburgh Penguins and
108 for the "Triples for Trees" with the
Detroit Tigers.
Over 6,895 trees have been planted
over the years in partnerships between
Davey and professional sports teams.
STEWARDSHIP
opportunity. Seventeen of those pear trees became a
donation to the zoo for animal food.
"Any time something can be beneficial and put to good
use, that's a good thing," Hanshaw, branch manager,
Wooster Nursery, Commercial Landscape Services, said.
"Hopefully with the completion of the Primate Forest, and
as our older fields of trees reach the point of needing to
be cleared for future plantings, we may be able to once
again donate to the zoo."
A young rhinocerous at the
Cleveland Zoo chomps on
pears from a Bradford Pear tree
donated by Davey. Four tons of
pear trees were collected from
the Davey Nursery, and they
have also been used to feed
elephants, giraffes, bison and
gorillas throughout the zoo.
Over the
years, Davey's
partnerships
with professional
sports teams
in Cleveland,
Pittsburgh and
Detroit have
contributed
to planting
6,895 trees.
