Grow with Trees
It’s all in the name.

Trees have been around for a very long time; their survival strategies are fine-tuned and stand the test of time. Embracing and incorporating some of their survival strategies can, at times, benefit our own organizations’ longevity. At other times, understanding how trees grow can also give us insight into how to prevent their growth – especially where their presence is not desired.

Grow With Trees Company uses this knowledge to encourage certain growth strategies and prohibit others.

Sustainable Solutions  These days, ROW hardware is expected to last at least a 100 years; managing vegetation to do the same only makes sense.  Sustainable ROW solutions usually involve establishing a thriving vegetation without trees.  In order to get there, it’s essential to have an all-encompassing Holistic Management approach, working with a variety of departments and synchronizing different contractors. Everybody actively working towards the same goal can achieve a thriving, healthy, diverse, deep-rooted, stable, low-growing, ROW vegetation that not only meets rules and regulations, but also provides habitat for a variety of pollinators.

Key ingredients Grow With Trees Company identifies to create, establish and maintain sustainable ROWs:

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Work Across
Departments

Most companies that manage ROWs deal with a variety of departments, each with their own agenda. A closer look often reveals common vegetation ROW goals shared across departments.

A Holistic Approach
to Management

Holistic management is proactive and a system thinking approach which considers sustainable environmental, economic and social benefits to achieve desirable results.

Suitability Analyses

ROWs are unique, though they may be categorized. Compatible vegetation is partly defined by site-specific environmental characteristics. A GIS-based analysis of environmental characteristics can enhance decision-making, helping to plan the right vegetation in the right place.

Sustainable Planning

In order for the right vegetation to thrive in the right place, it is important to have a long-term vision. ROW infrastructure is put in place to last at least a hundred years. By planning sustainably, we can manage vegetation accordingly and responsibly.

Break Even Points

Grow With Trees challenges today’s mindset that believes ROW care has to be an expense. Although the day where we can quantify ROW ecological enhancements and list the created assets on companies’ balance sheets might not be here yet, we believe there are a variety of ways to offset ROW costs. Managing for Break Even Points fuels an out of the box thinking that lead us to new and innovative ways to manage ROW Vegetation.

Environmental Compliance
Environmental Compliance as well as environmental stewardship spans across your organization and beyond. Embracing or inviting environmental rules, regulations and/or certifications into your system doesn’t always mean having to cope with additional managerial restrictions. In fact, at times, it can mean the opposite.  Safe Habor Agreements and Candidate Conservation Agreements with Assurance can actually shield you from dealing with potential future restrictions.

Contractor Training

Actively managing for and protecting compatible vegetation on your ROW system requires knowledge of particular vegetation.  When you know your plants, you can enhance.  In order to selectively take out only incompatibles requires a fine tuned approach. Bringing this knowledge to ROWs and training your contractors will assist you in establishing the vegetation you manage for faster.

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Contact us to begin the conversation about how to increase sustainable ROW solutions on your system.
There are many options, and we are happy to create the right one for you.