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Gary worked for a small tree company during his high school and college years.
After graduating from Shippensburg University in 1973 with a business degree,
Gary started his own business with a used red 1969 Dodge pickup and rented barn space.
That summer he added his first employees. By the second summer he acquired his second truck,
a new blue and white Dodge pickup. Since 1974, all the trucks have been painted blue and
white with the company logo. The second truck enabled Gary to expand his workforce.
Doug Delong, one the first employees, is now the operations manager. In 1975 the company
moved from the rented barn to its present location in Upper Milford Township.
In 1979 Gary's Tree & Shrubbery Service purchased its first tree truck and began to
focus primarily on tree maintenance. For the next decade the company added bucket trucks,
stump grinders, backhoes, front-end loaders, and spray trucks to expand the ability to
better serve customers' tree-care needs. During that time, for approximately seven years,
Gary's Tree Service in conjunction with Penn State, monitored the pest population in
the university's Integrated Pest Management Program. By monitoring weather conditions
and collecting pest counts, the program helped local applicators determine the optimal
time to apply treatment for specific insect problems. At the same time, the company
began to stress, through education, proper techniques for pruning and caring for trees.
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Today, Gary's Tree and Shrubbery Service consists of approximately of fifteen trucks
and ten full-time employees. Our trained employees pride themselves on performing
the best quality tree care and strive to meet the company's philosophy of complete
customer satisfaction. We are able to provide complete tree and landscape service to
residential, commercial and municipal clients as well as local colleges, school
districts and golf courses.
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Accreditation
Gary Rohrbach of Gary's Tree & Shrubbery Service, Inc. was given the accreditation
award at the Winter Management Conference of Tree Care Industry Association on February 7,
2005. Gary's Tree & Shrubbery Service is the first tree care company in Pennsylvania to receive
this award and is the fourth company in the country to become accredited. |
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Tree Care Industry Association (TCIA)
TCIA bestows awards annually for outstanding professional performance
in preserving the health and beauty of trees. GTSS was honored
for its exemplary tree care work at the residence of Mr. and
Mrs. Jeff Beich of Bethlehem, Pa. We performed tree removals,
crown thinning, and natural pruning and rejuvenating of shrubbery.
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1996 Award for Distinction for Excellence in Arboriculture |
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International Society of Arboriculture (ISA)
Each year, ISA recognizes tree care companies that complete projects that contribute
to the community. Gary's Tree & Shrubbery Service has
received Gold Leaf Awards for the following:
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2000 The Jeffery McMullin Memorial Award for most outstanding Arbor Day activity
for donation of trees,
and an educational program about trees held at the Hillside School. | |
1999 Gold Leaf Award for "Read across America Program" at Lincoln Elementary School | |
1996 Gold Leaf Award for Landscaping donated to Upper Milford Township Parks | |
1995 Gold Leaf Award for Landscaping donated to the Pool Wildlife Sanctuary |
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Certified Arborists
Gary's Tree & Shrubbery Service currently have two certified arborists. These professional
arborists have a minimum of three years of experience in some aspect of tree care and have passed
an exam developed by an international panel of experts. |
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Certified Arborists:
Gary Rohrbach-PD#0250
Andrew Prosak-PD#0621
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Memberships
Gary's Tree & Shrubbery Service, Inc. is a member of the Tree Care Industry Association
(TCIA), International Society of Arboriculture (ISA), and American Society of Consulting Arborists (ASCA)
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Licenses
The company holds a Pennsylvania Pesticide Applicators License #BU4621. We also
have tree surgeons licenses for Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton and all of the
local townships that require licenses. |
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Gary Rohrbach, President
Gary started Gary's Tree & Shrubbery Service Inc immediately upon graduation from
Shippensberg University, in 1973. He majored in Business Administration and has
taken many horticulture correspondence courses from Penn State University. His
philosophy from the beginning has been to provide prompt and reliable service.
Gary has served as treasurer of the Pennsylvania-Delaware Chapter of the International
Society of Arboriculture and is a member of American Society of Consulting Arborists
and a graduate of the Arboricultural Consulting Academy in 1996. Gary is past president
and an active member of the Emmaus Rotary Club. He lives in Emmaus with his wife, Dee, and two children.
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Douglas Delong, Operations Manager
Doug has been employed with our company since 1974. His job entails scheduling work for
the various crews, ordering tools and equipment, and making follow-up phone calls to our
clients to make sure that our customers are satisfied with the work that was completed.
Doug is a Tree Care Industry(formerly: National Arborist Association) tree care specialist.
He lives in Macungie with his wife Justine.
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Dee Eng, Landscape Designer
Dee started with the company originally doing all the secretarial and bookkeeping in 1975.
She has a Bachelors Degree in fine arts. After two years studying Landscape Architecture
at Temple University, she returned to the business as a landscape designer. She likes to
incorporate year-round color in her designs. She has taken a course with James Van Sweden
and James Brookes in Europe. Dee loves to travel and visit gardens in all parts of the world
with her husband and their two children.
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Andrew Procak, Plant Health Care Supervisor
Andy is a graduate of Rutgers University Golf/Turf Management Program in 1995. He is a
Certified Arborist and a Certified Pesticide Applicator. He attends many conferences and
seminars each year to earn continuing education units to update his certification. Andy
has over 10 years experience inspecting trees, shrubs and lawns for insects and diseases.
He diagnoses plant disease and makes recommendations for our customers as to what should
be done to keep the trees and shrubs healthy. He lives Mt Penn with his wife, Jennifer and their four
children.
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