Animated Grow With Trees mascot and IVM expert character offering strategic vegetation management training and gamified learning solutions.
Grow With Trees official logo celebrating 10 years of growth and innovation in utility vegetation management and environmental stewardship.
At Grow With Trees, we leverage Integrated Vegetation Management (IVM) to help companies and agencies reduce nature-based risks, steward the lands they manage, foster wildlife habitat and community engagement, and build pride among their employees and contractors.

Acres of stewarded lands

Participants in online classrooms

Hours of field training

From the  Boots 

to the  Boardroom 

For more than 10 years, we have transformed utility vegetation management (VM) practices through training, socialization, planning, and reporting services that add value from the boots on the ground to the suits in the boardroom.

  • Turn your vegetation from a liability into an asset
  • Empower VM crews with industry best practices & stewardship knowledge
  • Enhance reliability & reduce operational risks
  • Deliver exceptional biodiversity & environmental outcomes
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Boots on the Ground Create  Habitat  

Do your crews have the knowledge and tools they need to be effective?
Your VM crews and contractors hold the key to creating, enhancing, and maintaining desirable habitat on the lands you manage.

Grow With Trees develops customized training and socialization tools that equip your boots teams to implement strategic IVM and habitat management practices—improving long-term efficiencies and reducing operational risks.

Ready to upgrade your IVM training and socialization?

VM Education Expertise

  • bullet Online VM University
  • bullet On-Site Training & Plant Identification

Innovative Tools in the Field

  • bullet Let Grow App for Plant Identification & In-Field Training
  • bullet Printed & Digital Field Guides

Socialization & Outreach Services

  • bullet Educational Games
  • bullet Landowner & Other Stakeholder Communications

Better VM Performance Adds Boardroom  Value  

Are you maximizing your organization's natural capital to build resiliency and reduce risk?

Nature‑Based Risk & Biodiversity Analysis

  • Biodiversity exposure evaluations
  • GIS analysis & habitat mapping
  • Risk mitigation strategies

Strategic IVM Planning & Reporting

  • Long‑term IVM strategy & planning
  • Monitoring & conservation plan support
  • Biodiversity & sustainability reporting
  • ROW stewardship accreditation assistance

Leadership & Stakeholder Buy‑In

  • Business case for IVM & environmental stewardship
  • Communciations strategies & tools
Executive boardroom presentation demonstrating biodiversity ESG scores and nature-based risk analysis to utility leadership.
Strategic IVM is integral to build creating business operations and implementing stewardship activities where they have the least exposed risk and greatest social and environmental impact.

Grow With Trees utilizes industry best practices, analytical and planning tools, and benchmarking to uniquely shape long-term, programmatic enhancements of your company’s natural assets and VM program. 

Ready to bring IVM into the boardroom conversation?

Strong Partnerships are the  Root  of Our Success

See why our clients choose us and stay with us!
"We now have the tools to help our employees and contractors create, enhance, and maintain desirable and compatible wildlife and pollinator-friendly habitat on the 35,000 miles of pipeline that we currently manage across 5 states."

Susan Murray, Columbia Gas

Natural Gas Pipeline Utility
"I would highly recommend GWT for any Integrated Vegetation Management (IVM) consulting needs. Their expertise and commitment to excellence have been invaluable to our program. Their proactive approach and responsiveness set them apart as a top-tier partner in this field."

Jason Grossman, Liberty Utilities 

Electric Transmission & Distribution Utility
"The team at GWT understands electric and gas utilities’ sustainability needs and continues to deliver high quality, innovative solutions to our complex biodiversity program at NiSource. Without this team’s support, we would be years behind. Instead, we have seen our Biodiversity ESG scores continue to rise year over year."

Brian Kortum, NiSource

Natural Gas & Electric Utility
"We have decreased our annual costs of maintenance. We are taking our program to a new high as we continue to build on our ESG reporting plans with direct ties into our corporate value for biodiversity of the DJSI. We could have never accomplished all of this on our own, GWT has been a “tree-mendous” partner!"

Susan Murray, Columbia Gas

Natural Gas Pipeline Utility
"GWT's training programs have been exceptional in boosting employee retention and engagement. The education provided to our contractors has empowered them with the knowledge and skills needed to deliver superior service to the utility. This training has resulted in a more motivated and proficient workforce."

Jason Grossman, Liberty Utilities 

Electric Transmission & Distribution Utility

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