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17 May/June 2026 | THE DAVEY BULLETIN EXPERTISE DRG employees have helped provide high-speed internet with Omni Fiber. NATIVE SHORELINES COMPLETES 200 TH PROJECT Native Shorelines, a Davey company, completed their 200th project recently with the installation of a 45-linear foot living shoreline in Fort Pierce, Florida. The client's shoreline was eroding and in need of a solution. Native Shorelines installed 45 linear feet of QuickReef ® Shoreline Habitat Units (SHUs ™ ). The patent-pending QuickReef ® SHUs ™ are deployed in interconnected curved offshore sills along the shoreline in a configuration that reduces wave energy while providing habitat for marine life. They are made out of limestone marl-based concrete and oyster shell, which attracts oysters. "Because oysters are drawn to it, the shoreline is living and will adapt to its environment," Joshua Mills, senior associate consultant, Southern Operations, Davey Resource Group, Environmental Consulting and Native Shorelines, said. Several weeks after the QuickReef ® SHUs ™ were deployed, 10 mangrove trees and 45 marsh grass plants were added by local 4-H students. "The benefit of using these plants is that they will propagate and their roots will stabilize the shoreline," Mills said. Rather than degrading over time like other solutions, living shorelines grows more resilient. As of April 1, 2026, Native Shorelines has completed 209 total projects and installed over 38,000 linear feet of living shoreline structures, most using Davey's proprietary QuickReef ® system. Davey Resource Group (DRG) is helping bring high-speed internet to homes and businesses that previously didn't have high-speed internet with its fiber construction work for Omni Fiber. This ongoing work involves placing new fiber optic lines either underground or in the air throughout cities in Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Over 300 DRG employees in engineering, construction and field services have contributed to this project. "This work is important for our customer because it supports and streamlines their timeline from design to a completed fiber build out," Erin Sander, account manager, Utility Asset Management (UAM), DRG, said. "This work is important for Davey because it is incredibly collaborative, involving several different teams through multiple phases including field data collection and preliminary design into application submissions and utility make ready engineering, ultimately resulting in a completed fiber build out for the customer we are supporting." The engineering support for this project comes from UAM teams evaluating existing power poles, performing engineering tasks for pole loading and d esigning new and relocated attachment heights for each power pole. On the construction side, employees are completing directional drilling, fiber splicing and aerial strand and fiber placement. "This work is important because it helps the community grow," Johnathan Spiller, operations manager, UAM, DRG, said. "The work we are doing will allow our client Omni Fiber to provide each house with high-speed internet." UAM FIBER WORK KEEPS COMMUNITY CONNECTED Several solutions implemented by Native Shorelines aim to slow the process of shoreline erosion.

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