Apprenticeship-program participants received guidance from experienced professionals, including trainers from TCIA member companies such as Mowbray’s Tree Service. All images courtesy of Annie Rafferty, Butte College. “Whoops” rang out as each trainee walked to the front of the class to [...]

Leo Roldan Leo Roldan is un hombre en una misión, a man on a mission. As district safety-trainer coordinator in Mamaroneck, New York, for SavATree, a 35-year TCIA member company headquartered in Bedford, N.Y., he oversees training for the district’s [...]

Stepping away from my full-time massage-therapy career of 19 years due to restrictions related to COVID-19, I volunteered to work with our TreeHugger crew for the summer. All photos courtesy of the author. The summer of 2020 was a time [...]

“In reality, so many women are kicking butt in our industry. It’s a matter of overcoming the fears or the self-doubt more than anything,” says Katie Breukers, shown above, owner of Tangled Trees Arboriculture in London, Ontario, Canada. Photo courtesy [...]

Abigail Hufnagle, above, studied forest technology at Pennsylvania College of Technology. She is now a utility forester/work planner with ArborMetrics Solutions in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. ArborMetrics Solutions, LLC (AMS), based in Asheville, North Carolina, and Sylvan Lake, Alberta, Canada, is a [...]