Expertise

Today’s utilities need it all.
We have it.

Today’s utilities need it all. We have it.

For nearly a century, we’ve been helping customers improve reliability and safety, reduce management and customer costs, and build environmental benefits.

services

A professional, skilled workforce at your service

Our excellence is driven by a highly trained workforce that can handle whatever job needs doing—from distribution line clearance to transmission reclamation and everything in between.

Distribution Line Clearance

Trees and other vegetation are among the leading causes of power outages. By performing scheduled maintenance trimming, customer notifications or removing hazardous trees, Lucas licensed arborists help keep distribution lines clear—and the power on.

Transmission Right-of-Way Clearance

Lucas Tree maintains, reclaims, and establishes right-of-ways for utilities through the use of mobile GIS solutions and a unique fleet of forestry equipment. Mechanical trimmers, mowers, offroad lifts and harvesters allow our highly-skilled operators to ensure our customers high-voltage transmission lines are in compliance with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and Canada Energy Regulator (CER) Vegetation Management Reliability Standards.

Emergency Storm Restoration

When disaster strikes, experienced Lucas Tree crews are dispatched at a moment’s notice anywhere in the U.S. and Canada in all types of weather and disaster situations. Whether the disaster calls for aerial bucket trucks or specialty equipment such as loaders, mowers, skidders, cranes, or feller bunchers, the Lucas Tree team of arborists’ safely clear the vegetation hazards, so your team can get to work.

Integrated Vegetation Management (IVM)

Regulating the growth around conductors and along corridors improves access, extends the maintenance cycle while lowering cost, and promotes a more diverse habitat for wildlife. Our licensed pesticide applicators treat incompatible or non-native plants underneath the high-voltage transmission corridors. Our work helps reduce the spread of wildfire by creating fire safety breaks and promotes compatible plant growth to support a healthy and natural environment.

Railroad Maintenance

Vegetation management for railroads is a massive job that requires specialized equipment and skill. Left uncontrolled, vegetation can hinder the proper inspection of track infrastructure and the railway roadbed and create an unsafe workplace. Let Lucas Tree take care of this essential process for you.

Substation Management

Lucas Tree manages the ongoing clearance of vegetation and landscaping of substation structures. Our services are carefully monitored to obtain the best results—with minimum risk to the environment—allowing utilities to operate more cost-effectively.

Distribution Line Clearance

Transmission Right-of-Way Clearance

Emergency Storm Restoration

Integrated Vegetation Management (IVM)

Railroad Maintenance

Substation Management

Distribution Line Clearance

Transmission ROW Clearance

Emergency Storm Restoration

Integrated Vegetation Management (IVM)

Railroad Maintenance

Substation Management

Equipment

America’s most modern fleet.

Over the years, we’ve found that innovation makes us safer, greener, and more efficient. Lucas is committed to finding and using the newest technologies—whether they’re handheld or hand steered.

Bucket trucks

Chippers

Off-road aerial lifts

Roadside Mowers

Side trimmers

Pulp loaders

Herbicide spray units

Drones

Bronto mowers

Off-road bigfoot

Bucket trucks

Chippers

Off-road aerial lifts

Roadside Mowers

Side trimmers

Pulp loaders

Herbicide spray units

Drones

Bronto mowers

Off-road bigfoot

Who We Serve

International service. Local accountability.

Lucas Tree works with investor-owned utilities, electric cooperatives, municipalities, railroads, and pipeline customers throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Investor-owned utilities

With our professional team of experts and suite of vegetation management services, Lucas helps ensure grid reliability while improving customer relations.

Co-ops

Lucas helps improve the ability to provide safe and reliable service to co-op members, decrease storm outages, and increase resilience of overhead systems.

Municipalities

Whether it’s identifying the best approach to vegetation management needs, planning for the future, or dealing with current needs, Lucas helps municipalities stay safe.

Railroads

Overgrown vegetation on tracks is a liability. With a wide variety of equipment, Lucas crews can get where and when they’re needed, quickly and nimbly.

Pipelines

Above-ground or deeply rooted vegetation can create safety issues and impact production. Using low psi equipment, Lucas can access and maintain vegetation in all environments.

Investor-owned utilities

With our professional team of experts and suite of vegetation management services, Lucas helps ensure grid reliability while improving customer relations.

Co-ops

Lucas helps improve the ability to provide safe and reliable service to co-op members, decrease storm outages, and increase resilience of overhead systems.

Municipalities

Whether it’s identifying the best approach to vegetation management needs, planning for the future, or dealing with current needs, Lucas helps municipalities stay safe.

Railroads

Overgrown vegetation on tracks is a liability. With a wide variety of equipment, Lucas crews can get where and when they’re needed, quickly and nimbly.

Pipelines

Above-ground or deeply rooted vegetation can create safety issues and impact production. Using low psi equipment, Lucas can access and maintain vegetation in all environments.

why lucas tree

Safety First

We pride ourselves on generations of employees who are committed to bringing the safest, most reliable service to each project. The Tree Care Industry Association (TCIA) stands behind our Utility accreditation.

Skilled Experts

We continually provide our team with the right training, opportunities to achieve their personal goals, and an unwavering focus on safety and innovative technology.