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Bringing Safety Home
By Rocky Palmer, HR & Risk Manager I believe Wright Tree Service has one of the best safety programs in the industry. Each day, we come to work with safety on our minds. We put on our personal protective equipment (PPE), check our equipment and look out for one another. We routinely audit our efforts […]
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WTS Announces Joint Venture with Sustainable Environmental Consultants
Just before the annual awards banquet in March, Wright Tree Service finalized a new joint venture with Sustainable Environmental Consultants, an environmental consulting firm based in Kansas. The joint venture stemmed from needs of both companies. For years, Wright Tree Service has struggled to find viable disposal options for the wood biomass left from its […]
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From the Treetop: Scott Packard
By Scott Packard, Chairman and CEO 2011 reminded me of the old adage for March, “In like a lamb, out like a lion.” We began the year with the worst financial performance in our history; that was the lamb part. But as we approached spring, we began to claw our way back. By August, we […]
Read more...Communicating Safety: Lessons Learned from the Safety Summit
by Will Nutter, Wright Tree Service Anyone in the industry who has been in contact with me over the past year has heard my opinion on the UAA Safety Summit held in Salt Lake City last September and how impressed I was by the content and outcome. Enough people listened to me, I was asked […]
Read more...Black & Hurst Named Regional Managers
Wright Tree Service recently named Jerry Black and John Hurst Regional Managers. Collectively, the two bring to their new positions more than fifty years of experience in utility vegetation management. Black started with Wright Tree Service in 1998 as a Groundman in Iowa and eventually worked his way up, becoming a Foreman, General Foreman, and […]
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First Responders: Joplin Tornado
By Brescia Berg, Wright Tree Service & Emily Stanley, Empire District Electric Co. Vegetation management crews clear the way for electric service to be restored after an EF5 tornado tears through a Missouri town. Sunday, May 22, 2011, started out like any other late-spring day in Joplin, Missouri, U.S. Families were grilling out, kids were playing in the parks and, on this […]
Read more...GF Corner: Interacting with Private Property Owners
by Greg Frizzell, General Foreman, Wright Tree Service Dealing with private property owners can be one of the most challenging and frustrating parts of your day as a General Foreman. I work in northern California out of a yard that runs an average of 20 crews with two General Foremen. Our work includes 60 percent […]
Read more...How Employee Ownership Benefits Executives, Companies, and Employees
by Terry McGonegle, Wright Tree Service CFO Terry McGonegle, chief financial officer of Wright Tree Service, wrote an opinion editorial for The Des Moines Register that discussed the benefits of ESOPs and the positives that Wright Tree Service has seen from being an ESOP since 2002. Terry’s comments were also incorporated into an article […]
Read more...Wright Tree Service: ISA Silver Level Patron
Chairman and CEO Scott Packard was featured in the ISA Today, a publication of the International Society of Arboriculture. Scott spoke about Wright Tree Service’s relationship with the ISA and how the company has benefitted from the partnership and involvement. “Over the years, Wright Tree Service has benefited greatly from its partnership with the International […]
Read more...Safety Culture
by Will Nutter, President and COO After attending a safety symposium with his staff at APS, Mike Neil pitched to the UAA the idea of a safety summit that would focus on real people discussing real safety events and issues and then brainstorming ways to share lessons learned with others in our industry. After a […]
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