WITC Scholarship Winners: No Holds Barred for Amber Lloyd and Margaret Gardner
TCIA offers two $1,000 scholarships annually for travel and related expenses for women in the industry to attend TCI EXPO and take part in the Women in Tree Care (WITC) Pre-Conference Workshop held there. The opportunity has garnered great interest in the past, and this year was no different. “This past year, for the 2023 […]
USCIS to Increase Fees for Immigration and Naturalization Benefit Requests
On January 31, 2024, the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a final rule to adjust certain immigration and naturalization benefit-request fees. Effective April 1, 2024, these changes increase fees for employment-based petitions postmarked on or after this date. Specific to the tree care industry, these changes will increase program-use […]
Breaking Through the Tree Canopy with Nicole Benjamin
One community in tree care work is increasing, and that would be the league of extraordinary women. “It’s definitely growing, we’re not so much an outlier anymore. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a boys’ club, but at the same time it’s not weird to just be with all guys,” says Nicole Benjamin, tree climber, […]
Women in Tree Care and DEI Are Part of the Fabric of TCIA
A grassroots event took place at TCI EXPO ’17 in Baltimore, Maryland. Led by TCIA members, a group of women and others came together in a way that wasn’t as prevalent then as it is now, and the first TCIA Women in Tree Care Forum came to life. The speakers and roundtable facilitators engaged participants, […]
Learning What Not to Do Leads to Accreditation for Arbor+
As Jon Kammerer, CTSP, puts it, he “dragged a lot of brush” in his early years of working with trees. The owner of Arbor+, an eight-year TCIA member company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, says he started working summers with a small family-owned company when he was 18 years old. “I was pursuing a […]