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Joseph Gregory is an urban forester and Coordinator of Urban Forestry Services for Davey’s Natural Resource Consulting group. Mr. Gregory is responsible for oversight of Davey’s urban forestry related projects, including supporting business development, staffing, scheduling, and managing tree inventory projects, performing quality control checks, and providing training and professional development opportunities for his arborists. He has extensive experience with GPS technologies, several types of field data collection computers/units, tree inventories, urban tree risk assessment, and the i-Tree suite of software. In the cities of Kent, Ohio, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Nebraska City, Nebraska, Mr. Gregory oversaw data collection for incorporation into the U.S. Forest Service’s UFORE (Urban Forest Effects Model) and STRATUM (Street Tree Resource Analysis Tool for Urban forest Managers). The UFORE and STRATUM models are components of the U.S. Forest Service’s state-of-the-art, peer reviewed, urban and community forestry analysis and benefits assessment software suite called i-Tree. Mr. Gregory has coordinated numerous municipal inventory projects throughout the United States including Wilmington, Delaware, New York, New York, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He also serves as the Consulting Arborist to the Borough of North East, Pennsylvania. He is a Certified Arborist (OH-1420A) with the International Society of Arboriculture and a 2006 participant of the Society of Municipal Arborist’s Municipal Forester Institute. Mr. Gregory joined Davey in 2001 and graduated from Kent State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in conservation. | 