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THE DAVEY BULLETIN
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May/June 2026
ARBOR DAY
1: Shawn Bruzda, senior associate consultant,
partnered with Scouting America Troop 252 from
Kent, Ohio, for a conservation initiative at Seven
Ranges Scout Reservation in Carroll County,
Ohio, where Davey donated three eastern white
pines and deer protection fencing the scouts
needed to replace a privacy screen of four
declining blue Colorado spruce trees. Bruzda
taught the troop about the fundamentals of
industry-standard tree siting and installation and
how to safely use axes, saws, and pruning tools
per Scouting America standard protocols.
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2: As an Environmental Advisory Commissioner for the City of
Warrenville, Illinois, David Koldoff (center), senior associate
consultant, took care of 300 seedlings, working with high school
volunteers to divide and package them up, and then helped
distribute them at the city's Arbor Day celebration this year.
Nathan Paulus, senior inventory arborist, planted a bur oak
sapling at Hebron Community Park while discussing proper planting
techniques at an Arbor Day event in his hometown of Hebron,
Illinois. Paulus had a table set up with activities for kids and free
milkweed seed for planting, and he also had several trees tagged in
the park and spoke about what he does with Davey and the history
of Arbor Day.
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3: Kelly Volansky, associate consultant,
demonstrated how to plant a tree and
supervised plantings for the Culver Community
Schools third graders and high schoolers that
came out to plant trees at their local park in
Culver, Indiana. A total of 24 trees were planted
on Earth Day, with 67 more planted around
the elementary and junior-senior high days later.
Aren Flint, senior associate consultant;
Samantha Smock, environmental specialist;
Michael Urschel, environmental specialist; and
Scott Clingerman, inventory arborist, were
also a part of this project.
4: Nathan Davila, senior associate consultant,
created a two-day lesson plan for his daughter's
third-grade class to teach the students at
Empresa Elementary School how to identify
tree species and how to properly inventory
them by placing them on a paper map. The tree
species identification session had the kids go
outside, pick a tree and draw it in four parts.
The tree mapping session taught the kids
about spatial awareness and scaling.
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CENTRAL REGION
Mike Ashe, general foreman; Jeremiah
Walls, groundperson; Brandon Taylor, general
foreman; and Mike Mencini, account manager;
along with Jeff Parson, vice president; and
Mark Mittiga, area manager, helped dig the
hole for the planting of a swamp white oak
tree at the Summit County Historical Society's
Heritage Tree planting event. The team also
staffed a table with free saplings and seedlings
for the public. This office also donated over
400 saplings across the central region to
various accounts and clients.
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