Stewardship for the Linear Forest
Our tree growth regulator programs let trees thrive on their own terms--while keeping the lights on for the communities they grow in.
We are dedicated to the linear forest, because we're its stewards. Trees and utility infrastructure are often at odds with each other, but integrated vegetation management gives us a way to reduce that conflict and find approaches that work for the land, the trees, and the communities they run through.
Earthen Writ is built on the idea that practitioner-led businesses serve this industry best, because the people running them measure success by the health of the whole industry, not just what a single contract is worth. That's the kind of company I wanted to build: one that's still here in twenty years, doing right by the land and the utilities that trust us with it.
A Message from Our Founder
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Welcome to Earthen Writ and thank you for taking the time to visit our website.
Earthen Writ started back in 2018 as a blog, where I wrote about environmental topics to a broad audience. Later that same year, I entered the world of vegetation management and dedicated the next 8 years to taking care of trees along utility rights of way.
I've worked extensively in the field of vegetation management, as a tree growth regulator technician, herbicide applicator, and consulting utility forester (some of these hats at the same time). On the management side, I've worked as a regional account manager for TGR, herbicide, and line clearance. I had the wonderful opportunity to help create a nationwide utility's transmission vegetation management plan (TVMP) in a consultancy role. I have also held the roles of Director of Business Development and Director of Marketing. Now, I am the owner of Earthen Writ.
I have learned a lot in my years working in UVM. I have worked for a wide variety of companies and seen the environments my friends and colleagues have worked in. I created Earthen Writ to be the type of company I hoped to find in UVM.
The UVM industry has seen a wave of new companies chasing fast growth over the last several years, and too many utilities are left with the fallout: crews that disappear, promises that don't hold, programs built around what sells instead of what the right-of-way actually needs.
I'm a Certified Utility Vegetation Management Professional (CUVMP), a credential the Utility Arborist Association awards to a little over 70 people nationwide. Earning it required nine college-level courses developed with the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, years of hands-on UVM experience, and a formal commitment to the UAA's code of ethics. That's rare enough that Earthen Writ is the only vegetation management company owned and operated by a CUVMP, which means your program's strategy comes directly from someone who's already done the training and the fieldwork, not from an account manager relaying it.
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