Growing With TCIA
August Hoppe gave the following address after being sworn in as chair of the TCIA Board of Directors during the Association’s annual business meeting, held February 12, 2024, during Winter Management Conference ’24 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Funny how this gavel has circled back. Our Hoppe Tree Service urban wood lab made this gavel about […]
Husband and Wife Tree Care Teams – Positives, Pitfalls, Paradigms, Paragons and Progressions
TCI’s Women in Tree Care Series Since September 2017, TCI has profiled a number of women who work in tree care and the jobs they perform. We’ve looked at the issues women face working in tree care, as well as the assets they bring to the industry. This is the second-annual March Women in Tree […]
How to Avoid, Protect Yourself from and Recover from a Fire
Getting a phone call that your tree care business is up in flames is something no one ever wants to experience. Yet for the owners of several TCIA member companies, that’s precisely what happened, and the experience had the potential to be life changing and business altering. When the unthinkable happens, it’s too late to […]
Patriotic Support Results in DoD Award for Petree Arbor Owners
It isn’t every day that someone in the tree care industry gets a call from a representative of the U.S. military to inform them they’ve won the Department of Defense Patriotic Employer Award. But that’s exactly what happened to April and Brad Petree, husband and wife co-owners of Petree Arbor, Lawn & Landscape, Inc., located […]