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Rod Bailey passed away on June 15, 2025, at the age of 87. Bailey was the owner of Evergreen Services Corporation and Alder Springs Enterprises. He was also president of the Associated Landscape Contractors of America (ALCA) in 1985, now known as NALP. Bailey developed his work ethic from an early age, growing up helping out […]
ELEVATE, presented by NALP and powered by Cat, isnāt just another conference. It is a catalyst for your own professional growth and can help take your company to the next level. If you donāt want to miss out on the landscape industryās premier event in Phoenix, Arizona, on Nov. 2-5, share with your boss all the […]
Jim Huston passed away on April 2, 2025, at the age of 75. Huston was the founder and president of J.R. Huston Consulting, Inc., which provided consulting services, software solutions and educational workshops and seminars to the green industry.Ā Huston held positions in finance, aviation supply inventory management and procurement while serving in the U.S. […]
Chuy Medrano passed away on March 14, 2025, at the age of 70. Medrano was the co-founder and owner of CoCal Landscape, based in Denver, Colorado. Born in Chihuahua, Mexico, Medrano was the oldest of eight siblings and only finished the third grade before he began working to help support his family. He took whatever […]
Jack Ingels, a former professor at SUNY Cobleskill, passed away earlier this fall. Ingels earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Purdue University, followed by a Master of Science from Rutgers, and continued post-graduate studies at Ball State University and College of St. Rose. He started teaching at SUNY Cobleskill at age 24 in 1966 […]
On Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, Hurricane Helene made landfall as a Category 4 in the Florida Big Bend, leaving 500 miles of destruction in its wake, and as it moved northwards, it dumped a monumental 40 trillion gallons of rain across the Southeast. Meteorologist Ryan Maue, a former NOAA chief scientist, estimates that 20 trillion […]
