OFFICERS

PRESIDENT - ALISON HERRELL

COMMUNITY ASSISSTANCE FORESTER | oregon department of forestry (PORTLAND, OR)

Alison Herrell is a Community Assistance Forester with the Urban & Community Forestry Program at Oregon Department of Forestry where she provides technical, educational, and financial support to community partners. She is also Part-Time Instructor at Portland Community College where she teaches Integrated Pest Management & Plant Healthcare and Disease, Insects, & Weeds Identification in the Landscape Technology Program. She holds a B.A. in Biology from Valparaiso University and an M.S. in Environmental Science from Indiana University. She is an ISA Board Certified Master Arborist, TRAQ holder, and pesticide applicator in OR and WA with over 13 years of experience including tree climbing, PHC applications, sales, research, and education.

Alison is a very energetic, pragmatic, organized, tenacious, and a concise communicator. She plans on using this type of energy and organization to invigorate and reunite members and feels there's no better way to connect arborists than through their love of trees.

To email Alison, please click on this link.  

PRESIDENT-ELECT - robin hastings

shad tree technician | city of surrey - urban forestry section (vancouver, bc)

Robin brings over fourteen years of experience as an arborist working in both the UK and Canada. Over the course of his time in the industry, he has worked in both the private and public sectors. Robin has held positions including climbing arborist, climbing arborist foreman, sales representative, consulting arborist, and most recently as a municipal arborist with the City of Surrey in BC Canada. Robin hold a BS  in Biology, ISA BCMA, TRAQ, and Municipal Specialist Certifications. His experience in the field and office, working with a diverse group of individuals, positions him as a well-rounded and knowledgeable Continuing Education Director with the PNW-ISA. Robin has always placed a strong emphasis on continuing education to support and grow his career and endeavors to pass on the benefits of his experience to colleagues and peers. Robin prides himself on being a hardworking, driven person.

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SECRETARY - TRISTAN FIELDS

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT AND ARBORIST | LAND MEETS WATER (SEATTLE, WA)

Tristan is a Registered Landscape Architect (RLA), ISA Certified Arborist, Qualified Tree Risk Assessor (TRAQ), and professional horticulturist. I was certified as an arborist in 2018. While new to the industry, she has over twenty-five years of experience working with the natural world. With a master's in landscape architecture; an undergraduate degree in ecology; certifications in arboriculture, graphic design, habitat restoration; and a professionally trained horticulturist, Tristans brings a wealth of information regarding plants and their interactions. She has worked at historic estates, botanical gardens and plant nurseries in addition to running a landscape maintenance company and working for many years as a landscape architect and arborist. Tristan currently runs a business providing tree consulting services and landscape design. She loves working with individuals, municipalities, and businesses to find solutions for their outside spaces that are aesthetically pleasing, meet code, and are environmentally beneficial.

To email Tristan, please click on this link . 

Kaustubh joined the tree services industry in 2022 when he took over as President of Blooma Tree Experts.  While new to the industry he is excited to get involved with the local community of arborists & tree service professionals. Kaustubh grew up in Redmond, WA and glad to be back home in the Seattle area. Prior to tree services, he worked as a professional investor in Boston & New York City and has significant experience working in business operations, finance, accounting, etc. Kaustubh formerly sat on the Board of Directors for M&M Food Markets (Canada). He has also been a Board Observer for seven private & public businesses, including Univision, Champion Home Builders, and more. Kaustubh is a founding Board Member for the Hatch School, a new independent girls high school that launched its first school year this Fall 2022. The school is led by two amazing educators committed to the mission of empowering girls through excellent education & support. For the '22-'23 fiscal year, Kaustubh is the Treasurer & Chair of the Finance Committee. He has a B.S. Economics and B.A. International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

To email Kaustubh, click on this link. 

DIRECTORS

CERTIFICATION director - GORDON FIELD

OWNER | FIELD'S TREE SERVICE (ABBOTSFORD, BC)

To email Gordon, please click on this link. 

continuing education director - OPEN POSITION

governance director - RICHARD TILL

Arborist and safety manager | honL tree care (portland, or)

Richard is a production arborist and safety manager at Honl Tree Care in Portland, Oregon. he is passionate about working with trees and collaborating with other tree care professionals. Richard has been working as an arborist for over six years and has over a decade of prior experience in a variety of environmental and natural resource work environments. This has included wilderness trail maintenance for the USDA Forest Service, environmental and land use advocacy for a small Oregon non-profit, hundreds of hours of volunteer restoration work in local natural areas, and serving 12 years as an elected Board member for his local Soil and Water Conservation District. Richard is an ISA Certified Arborist, Tree Risk Assessment Qualified, and a TCIA Certified Tree care Safety Professional. He is also an inactive member of the Washington State Bar Association. His education includes a B.A. in Philosophy from Washington State University and a Juris Doctorate from Lewis and Clark Law School.

To email Richard, please click on this link. 

MEMBER SERVICES Director - DRUE MORRIS

urban forest planner | CITY OF LAKE FOREST PARK, (LAKE FOREST PARK, wa)

Drue is an Urban Forest Planner and ISA Board-Certified Master Arborist with the City of Lake Forest Park in Washington with 8 years of experience in the green industry. She has worked in many factions of arboriculture including production climbing, safety, nursery operations, ROW risk assessment, tree board advisement, development plan review, tree permitting, and currently teach arboriculture at South Seattle College. 

To email Drue, please click on this link. 

PUBLIC OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT DIRECTOR - JACOB KITE

OWNER | KITE IN A TREE, LLC (BOISE, ID)

Jacob is the sole employee of a small tree care company in Boise. He has been in the tree care industry for 12 years and received his Arborist Certification in 2016. Jacob started Kite in a Tree, LLC in 2018 with a focus on pruning all varieties of trees and other plants; he has since evolved his company into doing mostly ornamentals and fruit trees over the winter and spring months and doing consultations and root and soil work in the remaining months. Getting into Air Spade work has opened Jacobs eyes to how much can really be accomplished by addressing the real issues rather than continuing to put a band-aid on a problem; this mode of thinking has bled over into other aspects of his life, which is very fitting because in the last several years he has used physical and biological comparisons when comparing trees to people in order to better educate his customers. Jacob enjoys customer education; he loves seeing the light bulb come on when he explains something to a customer, especially one who is used to only being told what to do to fix a problem, rather than having the cause of the issue explained to them.

To email Jacob, please click on this link. 

BOARD Advisory Committee

EDITOR, josh petter

URBAN FOREST PLANNER | CITY OF BURIEN (bURIEN, WA)

Josh is the Urban Forest Planner for the City of Burien. He helps the City and residents with tree policy, risk assessments, tree maintenance, and long term planning. He grew up in Massachusetts and has been in the Pacific Northwest since 2016. After graduating from the University of Vermont with a B.S. in environmental studies he worked for four seasons at a tree nursery. He later moved to Oregon to pursue a M.S. in Forest Ecosystems and Society at Oregon State University, as well as certificates in GIS and Urban Forestry. He is an International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) Board Certified Master Arborist, Qualified Tree Risk Assessor (TRAQ), and Municipal Specialist. He has 15 years of experience in horticulture, urban forestry, education, and arboriculture. While he enjoys using technology to address urban forestry problems he is always trying to spend more time outside. 

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Tree Climbing Committee liaison - ANEESA WINN

owner | tree chic llc (PORTLAND, OR) 

Aneesa Winn is a TRAQ Certified ISA Arborist, Tree Worker and competition tree climber. She is the owner of Tree Chic LLC and works primarily as a contract climber in Portland, OR where she specializes in technical tree pruning and removals.

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isa component council representative - PETER VANOSS

senior associate | teragan & associates (lake oswego, or)

Prior to his college years, Peter worked on his grandfathers' nurseries and assisted with some of the landscape installations. He worked as a production climbing arborist for 13 years after graduating college. Peter worked his way up from a second climber to foreman and always strived for a safe work environment and working conditions by educating my crews. Currently, he is the senior associate for Teragan & Associates and has worked as a consulting arborist for the past 4 years. Much of his current work involves project management and organizing the day to day business.

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TREE fund LIAISON - STERLING malcolmson

Local Manager and Commercial Arborist Representative  | BARTLETT TREE EXPERTS (lYNNWOOD, WA)

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