Congratulations to the 2025 TCIA annual award winners, who were announced during TCIA’s Winter Management Conference in February 2026. Michael Raupp, Ph.D. Award of Merit: Michael Raupp, Ph.D. Known as "The Bug Guy," Dr. Raupp, a professor emeritus [...]

A class from Garden Time's Green Reentry Job Training Program, including Victor Sanchez, participant, far left, and Kate Lacouture, cofounder and executive director, second from left. All photos courtesy of Garden Time. When Victor Sanchez returned home after [...]

TreeForce pre-apprentices and the City of Denver forestry department pose together after a day of pruning practice. It’s said that necessity is the mother of invention, and that was precisely the path that led to launching TreeForce, a [...]

Photo by AzmanL/iStock “Best sources of employees?” That was the question posed by @southsoundtree from Olympia, Washington, on TreeBuzz on Oct. 9, 2025. The responses that followed reveal how difficult – and how creative – hiring has become [...]

David McQuaid’s long career spans local tree work to large line-clearance operations. Every once in a while, as you journey through life, you meet other people with the same ideals and loves that you have. It does not [...]