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March/April 2026
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THE DAVEY BULLETIN
CLS RESPONSE TO SPECIAL SERVICES SHOWS VERSATILITY
What was planned to be a three-week project to get
vegetation management at the Dominion Energy Atlanta
Solar Farms into compliance for the Ohio Power Sighting
Board turned into a 144-day project — to the betterment
of all involved.
Ninety Commercial Landscape Service (CLS) employees
across 13 offices and multiple safety support staff from the
Health and Safety Department and Davey Resource Group
were involved. Employees worked 15-hour days, seven days
a week during the nearly five-month-long project in 2025.
Work completed included mowing and trimming services
for 3,100 acres, mechanical removal of over 250 yards of
poison hemlock, removal of vegetation in over four miles of
drainage ditches and treatment of 500 acres of undesirable
vegetation with herbicide.
Will Kirby was the first Davey employee on site every day
and the last to leave. He said, through this project, the
company succeeded as a team and showed Dominion the
Davey difference.
"The team received a tremendous amount of training and
coaching in five months, and I am confident that this project
was a super spreader of good culture, proper procedure,
and major equipping for everyone," Kirby, project manager,
Cleveland East Maintenance, CLS, said.
HURRICANE RECOVERY SHOWS DIVERSITY
For four months in Asheville, North Carolina, CLS crews from
over 20 territories removed debris along roadsides and in
parks for the city following severe flooding from Hurricane
Helene in 2024. Davey utility crews were also there, clearing
broken or damaged trees in their bucket trucks.
Michael "Ryan" Sigler, who managed the CLS response,
said this work showed how truly diversified Davey is and
how well crews can respond to special service assignments.
A total 72 CLS crews responded to the 4-month project.
"Our work really united Davey as a company to the people
of Asheville that were hurting," Sigler, production manager,
Suffolk CLS, said. "Our crews were boots on the ground,
helping relieve the stress and eye sores from the flood.
Every resident from the area was grateful for our resources."
VISION
Left: A 70-inch caliper oak tree is downed at Asheville Municipal Golf
Course following Hurricane Helene.
Center: A tree is blown by hurricane-strength winds onto power lines.
Right: A climber from Tampa removes part of a damaged tree.
Left: Employees walk along solar
arrays during the months-long CLS
project at the Dominion Energy
Atlanta Solar Farms in Perry and
Deercreek townships in Ohio.
Right: Cinnamon Edwards,
landscape technician, Minneapolis
CLS (from left), and Will Kirby,
project manager, Cleveland East
Maintenance, CLS, stand with other
Davey employees at the Dominion
Energy Atlanta Solar Farms in Perry
and Deercreek townships in Ohio.
