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Davey Bulletin March-April 2017

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This hibiscus plant is an example of the new plantings DRG installed to replace invasive species as part of a wetlands mitigation project. March/April 2017 | The Davey Bulletin 21 4 SITES, 1 GOAL DRG mitigated wetlands and reduced invasive species at four locations as part of the U.S. 31 highway project in Indiana. The locations included: • 90-plus acres in LaPorte County • 10 acres in Goshen • 15 acres on 2 separate sites near South Bend "They're all in different ecological regions with different challenges," said Todd Gillian, site manager, DRG. "Working through each challenge and making them successful is the most enjoyable part." years thanks to the relationships built by Jake and the ability of our Natural Resource Consulting Indiana office to bring in help from other Davey offices," said Joe Gregory, assistant manager, natural resource consulting. "The U.S. 31 project is a great example of how that type of collaboration can be used to meet the client's needs." Also, across all four sites, DRG has planted more than 1,000 trees. Finally, the wetlands mitigation was one of the factors that let INDOT eliminate 30 traffic signals and more than 600 un-signalized and private entryways onto the road, thus creating a streamlined and uninterrupted state highway. "This project exemplifies INDOT's mission to increase safety, improve mobility and support economic growth in Indiana," INDOT Commissioner Brandye Hendrickson said in a November press release. Reed canary grass, which had consumed large portions of the areas. "In LaPorte County, when we first started there, we were using high- pressure sprayers, hundreds of gallons of herbicide solution and working for weeks at a time to get the invasive species under control," he said. "Now we're only using a few gallons of herbicide solution and spending a day or two at the site each time we treat for invasive plants. It's been rewarding seeing the benefits of the different native species returning to the site over time." BROAD BENEFITS DRG's work on the U.S. 31 project has had a big impact in a lot of arenas. First, the work afforded collaborative opportunities between the DRG Indiana office and several other Davey offices and service lines, including: Davey Commercial Landscape Services, Indianapolis; Conservation Land Stewardship, LLC, a subsidiary of Wetland Studies and Solutions, Inc., a Davey company; and DRG's Ohio Natural Resource Consulting team. "DRG's opportunities with our client, CHA, have steadily grown over the

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