Urban Tree Risk Management Professional Training

Posted by on August 5, 2005

Urban Tree Risk Management Professional Training
August 24-25
Delaware Center for Horticulture
Wilmington, Delaware
Cost $50.00

This training provides a sound base and understanding of tools and concepts to integrate tree risk management assessment into community, municipal, and city planning. Emerging topics such as dividing a community into tree risk zones, writing risk policy, and using new computer technologies for data collection will be presented. Traditional topics related to assessing tree defects, evaluating risk, prevention, and corrective processes will also be covered. The workshop is targeted at professionals who can transfer training and tools throughout Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, Delaware, Ohio, and West Virginia.

This two-day training is accredited for 14 Penn-Del ISA CEU’s

Partners:
Delaware Center for Horticulture
Delaware Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Maryland Department
of Natural Resources, Forest Service, Urban and Community Forestry
Program Tree Radar, Inc. USDA Forest Service, NA, State & Private
Forestry, Mid-Atlantic Center for Urban and Community Forestry

If you have not registered, please do so now, Registration closes August 17. Max capacity of 50 will fill quickly on a first come basis. For registration information, contact:

Donna M. Murphy, Center Coordinator
Landscape Architect, ASLA, ISA Certified Arborist Mid-Atlantic Center for Urban and Community Forestry USDA Forest Service, NA Keystone College, One College Green, Wyoming Building, PO Box 1466, La Plume, PA 18440-1099.
Phone: (570) 945-8095
Fax: (570) 945-8096
http://www.fs.fed.us/na/morgantown/macucf/index.htm