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Kasey Krouse
Urban Forester

Kasey Krouse is an urban forester with Davey Resource Group. Mr. Krouse shares responsibilities between the Urban Forestry and Ecological Services groups within Davey. His urban forestry duties include conducting municipal and park tree inventories. He has experience with GIS-based pen tablet computers and handheld PDA data collection units, as well as GPS technology. He has served as project manager for public tree inventories in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, Riverside, Illinois, Jackson, Tennessee, and Madison and Columbia City, Indiana. Mr. Krouse is also certified by the U.S. Forest Service to perform Forest Inventory Analysis (FIA) data collection for the State of Indiana in an effort to determine the current age and status of forests across the country. In addition, Mr. Dye has also participated in the Sample Urban Statewide Inventory (SUSI) for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of Forestry where he collected data in several Indiana cities and town. The SUSI project assesses the health and state of Indiana’s urban forests via a sample statewide inventory and analysis of the findings using i-Tree’s STRATUM application. Ecological duties include developing wetland mitigation planting plans, installing plant materials, shrubs, and trees in mitigation wetlands, implementing invasive species management plans, and surveying stockpile measurements for aggregate quarries. Prior to joining Davey, Mr. Krouse conducted research on the effects of herbicides on herbaceous species for the Urban Forestry Department at Purdue University, and has also served as a wildlife technician for graduate students in the Natural Resource Department at Purdue. He has studied abroad in Christchurch, New Zealand where he evaluated plantation forestry practices in the South Pacific. Mr. Krouse is a Certified Arborist (IN-3243A) with the International Society of Arboriculture, and was a recipient of the TREE Fund’s Felix Memorial Scholarship in 2005. Mr. Krouse graduated from Purdue University with a bachelor of science degree in forestry, specializing in urban forestry and international studies.

Contact: KKrouse@davey.com
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