Wendall Wich

Subsequent to the sale of Integrity Tree Care to Sava Tree I was hired as a Sales Arborist servicing areas throughout the Vancouver and Portland Metro area. The majority of my time is spent consulting with homeowners and occasionally governmental entities dealing with tree, shrub and lawn care concerns. I continue to utilize my forestry and urban horticulture expertise on a daily basis educating and learning from those I encounter every day.

I was hired as the company's General manager with the goal of increasing gross annual income and client base throughout the Vancouver Washington market. In 2016 we were a company consisting of four hourly and two exempt employees, in 2022 when the company was sold to Sava Tree we had grown our team to include 8 hourly pruning crew members and 1 Plant Health Care specialist operating throughout the Vancouver and Portland metro markets.

My time as the company General Manager was divided equally between managing the field crews providing educational and client service programs, hiring and disciplinary actions, mentoring and professional growth responsibilities and residential/commercial sales.

I started at Collier Arbor Care as a lawn care/Plant Health Care (PHC) technician obtaining my ISA Arborist Certification, Oregon Commercial Pesticide Applicators license and ISA Tree Risk Assessor Qualification providing lawn and tree/shrub insect and disease treatments along with pruning and removal services. In 1998 I was promoted to the Plant Health Care/Lawn Care Department Supervisor overseeing both until I left the company in 2015 three years after the company was purchased by Bartlett Tree Experts. During my tenure in this position, I was proud to have been an active member of the local tree care community helping to develop many of the IPM based programs and services currently employed throughout the Pacific North West.

Member of Forest Silviculture Department responsible for the development and implementation of post harvest reforestation programs including forest re habilitation, forest insect and disease control programs, small log utilization program, forest fire suppression, prescribed burning, Western Spruce Budworm eradication program, forest mensuration, forest waste management, continual forest inventory and forest stocking surveys.

I was a Tribal employee working in conjunction with Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs employees and up line supervisors tasked with the reforestation and management of 600,000 acres of timbered land ranging from low elevation juniper to high elevation sub alpine ecotype's.