Vegetation Management Solutions for Utility Cooperatives

Strengthening Partnerships With Utility Cooperatives

A comprehensive vegetation management plan is critical to keeping a utility cooperative’s infrastructure up and running safely. When trees and plants are overgrown, they can interfere with infrastructure and cause short circuits, blackouts, and even wildfires.

Davey Resource Group takes a client-centered approach to integrated vegetation management, providing workflow management solutions, herbicide programs, consulting services, and the latest technology to cooperatives, tailored to their specifications. Davey understands a cooperative’s mission to champion a rural community’s desire for affordable and reliable power and works closely with cooperatives to create a reliable system for their members.

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Expert Solutions from a Trusted Partner

ResourceKeeper

Davey’s ResourceKeeper workflow management system is a suite of tools that seamlessly combines field collection software, a customizable dashboard, and compliance reporting capabilities to provide cooperatives with robust data to make informed decisions.

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Herbicide Solutions

Davey’s crews are specially trained to identify and control invasive or overgrown plants on the right-of-way. Davey uses backpacks, vehicles, drones, and other specialized herbicide applications to treat unwanted vegetation.

Technology Solutions

Our team of professionals leverages the latest GIS, LiDAR, diagnostic tools, and drone technology to help acquire and manage critical data, empowering cooperatives to make more informed decisions that support their vegetation goals.

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Safety Audits

As part of our safety consultation services, our team implements safety management systems that embrace a holistic approach to safety through training, education, employee engagement, risk assessments, audits, and more.

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Our Commitment To Safety

Keep it Safe! is a universal motto among Davey's employee owners. Regardless of geographic location, job class, or work environment, Davey employee owners share a common goal - getting the job done safely. For Davey employees, safety is more than a line on a job description or a condition of employment.

Drone Technology

Drones are cost-effective, time-saving solutions to large-scale vegetation management projects. They can be equipped with cameras that deliver high-resolution photos and videos, specialty sensors to help proactively detect infrastructure defects or concerns, and sprayers that apply herbicide to treat invasive or overgrown vegetation.

Davey Resource Group's drone team has the latest technology available to help cooperatives complete extensive vegetation work safely and effectively.

Featured Vegetation Management Work

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DRG Helps Wild Rice Create Vegetation Management Plan Using ResourceKeeper

DRG used aerial imagery, outage reports, and reliability data to create a vegetation management program in ResourceKeeper that prioritizes vegetation in high-outage areas for Wild Rice Electric Cooperative in Minnesota.