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Employee Development

  • Ephraim Taylor, left, CTSP, owner of Nick’s Tree Service LLC, an accredited, 28-year TCIA member company in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, with Kristoffer Rasmussen during a site visit.
    July 1, 2024

    Kristoffer Rasmussen:“CTSP Is My Most Valuable Credential”

    By ARABELLA ARDEN ARABELLA

      “CTSP, it’s who I am,” states Kristoffer Rasmussen, TCIA Accreditation auditor and the owner of arboriststrong.com, a tree care safety consulting company based in Azle, Texas. Talking with him, it immediately becomes clear that he is a true Certified [...]

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  • Rancho Tree Service crews having a morning stretch.
    June 1, 2024

    In a Diverse Workforce, Building Confidence Is Key

    By Tamsin Venn

    “One good thing about the CTSP (training) is that it really helps you with adult learning, and with me being bilingual and a lot of the workforce being Hispanic, that’s even more important. You learn some workers are hands on, [...]

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  • PHC technician Matt Parker treating an ash for emerald ash borer.
    May 1, 2024

    Education Is Key at Teacher’s Tree Service

    By Patricia Chaudoin

    Greg Ranallo’s company name, Teacher’s Tree Service, may allude to the years he spent as a public school teacher in Minnesota, but it still applies to his and his employees’ current arboricultural work. Teacher’s is a 17-year TCIA member company [...]

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  • Scotty Olson at TCI EXPO ’23 in St. Louis, Missouri. Photo by Pete Senor, Clogger, New Zealand.
    April 1, 2024

    Scotty Olson Values Learning How to Communicate With the Younger Generation

    By Tamsin Venn

    The Legends of the Geezers is an annual tree-climbing competition held in January in Florida for those still agile over the age of 40, and it just celebrated its 21st birthday. Next January, three climbers who were 18 when they [...]

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    March 1, 2024

    Learning What Not to Do Leads to Accreditation for Arbor+

    By Patricia Chaudoin

    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 [...]

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