TCIA member company Joshua Tree of Stockertown, PA spent Arbor Day showing third graders the proper way to climb a tree. One by one, each was given some instruction, a helmet, safety goggles, hooked into a harness and guided up into a maple.
One student said her tree climbing experience was “scary, but easy.”
Mike and Ellen Neal, the owners of TCIA member company Arboristry® Associates, Inc., have been committed to giving back to their Central Virginia community through education and service.
Back in 2011, during Texas’ worst drought on record, Bastrop State Park was nearly destroyed by wildfires caused by 30 mph wind gusts that blew broken tree limbs into power lines. The fires killed two people, destroyed around 1,700 homes, and burned nearly 6,000 acres of the park.
Based in the Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina area, Erica Strein is TCIA's new Regional Outreach Coordinator for North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
As part of a national Arbor Day Foundation program called "Energy Saving Trees," Atlantic City Electric in New Jersey is offering 2,000 free trees to customers. The idea is that planting them strategically near houses and businesses can help reduce energy bills.
An online tool developed by the foundation and TCIA member company Davey Institute uses Forest Service research to calculate the benefits of planting trees, including cleaner air and improved storm-water management.
TCIA PACT partner Morbark unveiled its first Boxer compact utility loader on Friday, with staff gathering to watch the unit be completed.
Unveiled with a boxing-themed introduction, the Boxer model 320 compact loader is the latest in Morbark’s line of tree care, sawmill, recycling, forestry and biomass chipping and grinding equipment that now also includes the Boxer line after buying it from Mertz Manufacturing late last year.
After 12 years as TCIA's Meetings Coordinator, Deb Cyr is retiring from TCIA today. She is ready to move on, enjoy more time with her family, and see what else life brings.
Although we will miss Deb greatly, here's some good news: Deb's replacement is already on board! Her name is Susan Boutin and she comes to TCIA with an extensive background in meetings.
TCIA's newest Outreach Coordinator (Texas/Louisiana) Margaret Hall-Spencer was recently highlighted in the March 2013 issue of In the Shade, the Texas ISA newsletter.
The article explains Margaret's new responsibilities, which include facilitating increased participation in TCIA programs via regional workshops that address both owner and employee needs.
To read the article (found on page 8), click here.
TCIA is proud to welcome Susan Boutin, our new meeting coordinator, to help enhance our mission to advance tree care businesses. She will be filling the shoes of Deb Cyr, who retires in March after 12 years in the position.
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Mike and Ellen Neal, the owners of TCIA member company 
Back in 2011, during Texas’ worst drought on record, Bastrop State Park was nearly destroyed by wildfires caused by 30 mph wind gusts that blew broken tree limbs into power lines. The fires killed two people, destroyed around 1,700 homes, and burned nearly 6,000 acres of the park.
Based in the Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina area, Erica Strein is TCIA's new Regional Outreach Coordinator for North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
TCIA PACT partner Morbark unveiled its first Boxer compact utility loader on Friday, with staff gathering to watch the unit be completed.
After 12 years as TCIA's Meetings Coordinator, Deb Cyr is retiring from TCIA today. She is ready to move on, enjoy more time with her family, and see what else life brings.
TCIA's newest Outreach Coordinator (Texas/Louisiana) Margaret Hall-Spencer was recently interviewed by The Fayette County Record in La Grange, Texas.
TCIA is proud to welcome Susan Boutin, our new meeting coordinator, to help enhance our mission to advance tree care businesses. She will be filling the shoes of Deb Cyr, who retires in March after 12 years in the position.