Grow With Trees (GWT) opened its doors in 2016, inspired by the prospect that humanity can learn a lot from trees about how to co-exist on Earth for millennia. Striving for an out-of-the-box approach, GWT began working with electric utilities to challenge conventional practices for establishing and managing vegetation. Since then, GWT has built a reputation as a forward-thinking catalyst for positive environmental change in the utility industry.

Collaborative Partnerships

GWT works with individual electric, gas, and solar companies as well as industry associations, research institutions, government agencies, and non-profits to promote environmental stewardship through integrated vegetation management (IVM).

What is IVM?

IVM is commonly understood to be a system of methods that control undesirable vegetation to ensure safety, compliance, and reliability of built infrastructure. A foundational but sometimes overlooked principle of IVM is the stewardship of beneficial, stable, low-growing plant communities that are compatible with the site and provide a biological control against taller growing or otherwise incompatible vegetation. GWT focuses on the protection and enhancement of this compatible vegetation, which helps organizations meet not only safety, compliance, reliability, and cost objectives but also foster wildlife habitat and improve biodiversity on the lands they manage.