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Workforce Development

  • Care of Trees Is Taking Care of Veterans
    September 1, 2025

    For Ricky Folse, Taking Care of Trees Is Taking Care of Veterans

    By TIM BARTELT

    Ricky Folse, founder of Veteran Tree Care, a second-year TCIA member company based in Houma, Louisiana, is a man on a mission, and that mission is to help both men and women. Military veteran men and women, to be more [...]

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  • Safety Training in tree care
    June 9, 2025

    Safety Training for the Long Term

    By Tamsin Venn

    For Timothy Brogan, gaining TCIA’s Certified Treecare Safety Professional credential (CTSP) was a way to empower him to teach other tree care professionals the tools needed to increase their longevity in the industry through safe practices and a safety-culture mindset. [...]

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  • Casey and Bartlett Tree
    June 1, 2025

    Casey Trees and Bartlett Tree Experts, A Crowning Partnership Made in the Shade (of Urban Trees)

    By TIM BARTELT

    There are symbiotic relationships across the natural world, with organisms counting on other organisms for success and survival. Symbiotic relationships also exist in the corporate environment, with one organization working with another organization for success and, in this case, tree [...]

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  • tree Accreditation Auditor
    June 4, 2025

    Rebecca Johnson, Breaking Ground on the Accreditation Auditor Team

    By Patricia Chaudoin

    Rebecca Johnson, founder and owner of Arborholic LLC, has a list of arborist credentials a mile long, but laughs when she says she’s never worked full time for a tree care company. “I actually ended up in forestry kind of [...]

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  • Tufts Tree Service
    May 1, 2025

    Luck Runs Out, but Safety Is Good for Life

    By Tamsin Venn

    “Luck Runs Out, But Safety Is Good For Life” So says a post on the Tufts Tree Service LLC Facebook page. It could be owner Brandon Tufts' guiding principle. Tufts Tree Service crews work in the wake of Hurricane [...]

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