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MyDavey Bulletin - July/August 2015

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July/August 2015 | 19 Top photo: Shawn Bruzda measures a blackgum, an Ohio Department of Natural Resources of Forestry Big Tree candidate in Pioneer Cemetery in Warren, Ohio. D avey and American Forests have helped shape the face of the tree industry for 100-plus years—coming up with new ways to protect Mother Nature's most prominent natural resource, trees. American Forests created the National Big Tree Program in 1940 —50 years later, the organization partnered with Davey to reach a larger audience— spreading the program to all 50 states and Washington, D.C. Shawn Bruzda, biologist and urban forester for Davey Resource Group, is the first-ever Davey employee to join American Forests' National Cadre. His passion for big trees started in 2004, when he successfully submitted a 78-foot butternut tree, located down the road from Davey's corporate offices, as the new Ohio Department of Natural Resources of Forestry Big Tree Program champion. "I love going out and measuring big trees," Bruzda says. "It's not easy finding these giants, but that's the challenge." Bruzda attended a two-day Advanced Tree Measuring Workshop in Cooksburg, Pennsylvania, to do what he loves—finding and measuring massive trees. Students received the 86-page American Forests Champion Trees Measuring Guidelines Handbook in order to learn the precise techniques and formulas to correctly measure all types of massive trees. The program continued outdoors, allowing students to find and measure real-life big trees in Cook Forest State Park. "When measuring, you have to pull from the entire database in your head, which contains everything you have ever learned about trees and arboriculture," Bruzda says. "That's what is great about Davey—all the training and knowledge you receive." Bruzda is now considered an American Forests National Cadre Apprentice, responsible for measuring big trees in Ohio and surround- ing states. After he successfully measures a number of trees based on American Forests' methodology, he will become a National Cadre member. "The National Cadre is instrumental to what American Forests represents," Bruzda says. "It's a great responsibility for me to represent Davey as the only current National Cadre Apprentice." Bruzda looks forward to more Davey employees joining the National Cadre in the future and seeing the program expand. "It's important to find and protect the large trees, while sustaining growth in the younger ones," he says. As the American Forests Champion Trees Measuring Guidelines Handbook states, "Regardless of size, all trees are champions." Continuing a Strong Partnership Idea submitted by: Shawn Bruzda, biologist and urban forester, DRG Dale Luthringer (left) demonstrates the proper technique for measuring tree circumference on a 300-plus-year-old eastern hemlock during the American Forests National Cadre Apprentice Training in Cook Forest State Park.

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