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THE DAVEY BULLETIN
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May/June 2018
DAVEY RESOURCE GROUP, ARBORGUARD TEAM UP
While Davey is a company with several different business
segments and specialized expertise, it's when those
pieces come together that the true mission of Davey
shines through.
When the city of Griffin, Georgia, approached Davey
Resource Group (DRG) to conduct an updated tree survey,
a collaboration with Arborguard Tree Specialists made
perfect sense. Instead of calling in several DRG employees
from different parts of the country, local Arborguard
employees from the Atlanta office performed the bulk of
the inventory. Though the city had an inventory done about
10 years ago, they decided that, for safety reasons, it was
time to update it.
"Using TreeKeeper
®
we needed some training because we
weren't as familiar with the software, but tree inventories
are primarily what the construction and development team
do here at Arborguard," said Dave Mitchell, sales and service
coordinator for Arborguard. "So, we knew how to execute
tree inventories prior to this project, but learning TreeKeeper
was a cool addition to the process."
TreeKeeper is a Davey created and proprietary software
that allows clients to efficiently manage their urban forest
and access the information from any location. It offers data
collection and management services such as calculating and
sharing tree values, recording citizen requests for service
and information, tracking work history and cost for each tree,
documenting location, species and other information.
Altogether, the project took about a month to complete
with about two-thirds of the on-site work performed by
Arborguard and the rest by DRG. There were five employees
working on-site on the project from the beginning of the
inventory in late November through the end of the project
in late December. In that time, the crews surveyed just over
9,000 trees in the city of Griffin.
"It was cool being able to help each other out for the
betterment of Davey, and I think there is plenty of room for
more collaboration going forward," Mitchell said.
MY DAVEY
Above: Davey Resource Group and the Arborguard Atlanta office
partnered to conduct a tree inventory in Georgia.
