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143

Recognized Utilities

$64M

Invested in urban forestry management

$.80

Invested per customer

The Tree Line USA Network

Joining these leading utility providers across the nation in prioritizing trees in the community.

Overview

We believe every utility can grow something greater. Tree Line USA’s five standards guide utilities of all sizes in delivering reliable service while caring for trees and communities. 

Recognition is earned annually for work done January 1 through December 31. The application portal opens September through March, your chance to highlight leadership in safety, sustainability, and stewardship. 

Protecting Trees Together

Our work begins and ends with understanding everyone’s impact on trees. Tree Line USA partners demonstrate compliance to industry standards for pruning, planting, removals, trenching, and tunneling near trees. We also help encourage quality assurance related to:

  • Utility pruning
  • Integrated vegetation management
  • Underground utility construction

Empowering Your Employees

Tree Line USA partners conduct and document best practice training at least once a year. These trainings help educate employees, contract workers, and supervisors who perform or oversee right-of-way vegetation maintenance.

Connecting With Your Community

Guiding your customers on the proper placement and pruning of trees is a critical part of our program. Our partners coordinate dedicated educational programs and communications for the public and paying customers, allocating an annual expenditure of at least 10 cents per customer to education. 

A Plan to Protect

Tree Line USA utilities lead by example with a formal tree-based energy conservation program. Through customer education, local partnerships, and strategic tree planting on private property, they show how trees can naturally lower energy use and create more efficient, comfortable landscapes. 

Honoring Arbor Day

Tree Line USA utilities proudly sponsor and take part in annual Arbor Day celebrations, partnering with municipalities, schools, and community groups to plant trees and strengthen community connections through shared stewardship. 

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Be part of the community

See the network you'll join as a recognized utility, including other members, and access Tree Line USA marketing materials here.

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The network effect

Trees & Utilities

Conservation is a collaboration. At our annual Trees & Utilities conference, we bring professionals together for camaraderie, education, and sharing best practices. Join us to connect and learn new ways to put your program on a path to success.

Testimonials

At SVEC, we take pride in demonstrating our commitment to the environment and providing safe, reliable electric service not by our words, but by our actions. The Tree Line USA designation validates that what we are doing works, and we greatly appreciate having this recognition as further proof to our members that our approach is an effective one.

Preston Knight
Communication Manager, Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative

Accreditation from Tree Line USA reaffirms that Eversource's tree work, environmental stewardship and customer communication exceeds utility vegetation management industry standards. We're proud to share with our communities and key stakeholders that our best practices in utility arboriculture are backed by the Arbor Day Foundation.

Jonathan Rizzo
Project Manager, TVM, Eversource
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Become a Tree Line USA

The Tree Line USA application portal opens annually in September and remains open until the following spring. Applications must meet all five standards through activities completed between January 1 and December 31. Find your state’s deadline to complete your application on time. 

Tree Line USA is an Arbor Day Foundation Program in cooperation with the National Association of State Foresters and the Utility Arborist Association.

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