August Hoppe The TCIA mission is “Advancing tree care businesses.” As I wrap up my time on the TCIA Board of Directors, it’s time to reflect a little on some of our accomplishments toward that end as an [...]

Most risk-management articles written for the tree care industry center around avoiding, minimizing or reducing risk within your tree care company. In simple terms, we usually look at risk as a bad thing for your business. However, I feel the [...]

As many of you know, we recently returned from another successful Legislative Day on Capitol Hill. TCIA member-company leaders gathered in Washington, D.C., in September, not just to shake hands but to educate policymakers about the key issues that impact [...]

Why?” Such a simple question, but if you spend any time around a child, you will soon discover it may be one of the most complex and difficult questions to understand, and the complete answer to “Why?” is always changing, [...]

Sketch by Jerry King. I am an artist. Trees are my medium. Many years ago, my grandfather instructed me to distinguish between the work of craftsmen, or craftswomen, and artisans and artists. Craftspersons’ work, he said, exhibits a fair understanding [...]