Tree Care Symposium- Richmond Va-Thursday, February 12,

[John Paul Sanborn]

Professional Tree Care Symposium

Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
1800 Lakeside Ave.
Richmond Va.23228-4700
Phone 804-262-0048

Norm Brown [email protected]

Thursday, February 12, 2004, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm 7 ISA CEU"S

A day of lectures on tree care. Topics are selected from the mandatory continuing education areas for the International Society of Arboriculture Certifed Arborist certification. For details and to request a brochure for this program only, call 804-262-9887 ext. 328.

The Certified Arborist Exam will be given there.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

TEST IS ON THE 13TH

Lectures on the 12th
Plant Smart,Care Wisely:Tree Selection And Maintenance

8:30am Tough trees for Tough Times
by C.Dwayne Jones City of Waynesboro

9:30am Storm Damage And Restoration Pruning:Latent Nodes as Natural Targets
by GUY Meilleur Apex NC.

10:45am Trees and Shrubs for Overhead Utility Easements
by Bonnie Appleton,PHD

11:45am Planting Specifications:Street Tree Planting Methods
by Bonnie Appleton , PHD

1:00pm Ginter Tree Walk with Guy Meilleur to Discuss his Morning Presentation
by Guy Meilleur

2:15pm Cableing and Bracing
by Davy Tree Company Rep.

3:15pm Lightning Protection
by William Poad Bartlett Tree

4:30pm Adjourn

FRIDAY FEB,13TH

9:30am Check In Exam is from 10am to 1pm
Registration for the ISA Certified Arborist Exam is only avaliable through the Mid-Atlantic Chapter
of the ISA.Contact Nancy Herwig at 708-753-0499 or Mike Galvin at 410-260-8507 for exam applications

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Thourgh i think might be too late to sign up for the test.

 

[murphy4trees]

Registration for the CA test requires 12 working days....
I'd like to make the conference, but will only be getting back to philly on 2/11....
Though to tell the truth ther are only a few things on the list that I find interesting..
I'll be presenting at the 80th ISA Symposium in Pittsburg this August...
At my wife's urging I put in proposals for three different presentations.. they took me up on "tricks of the trade"... This is designed for the guy who's got sawdust in his pocket at the end of the day...
More details on that later

 

[Guy Meilleur]

Originally posted by murphy4trees
At my wife's urging I put in proposals for three different presentations.. they took me up on "tricks of the trade"... This is designed for the guy who's got sawdust in his pocket at the end of the day...

Way to go, Mrs. Murph! ISA wants and needs more input from the field. There will be another talk in Pittsburgh ISA on Monday to a combined Utility/Commerical audience that is also for the sawdust-pocket crowd. I'll be spewing stuff there about heading cuts and other heresy. If it was up to me I'd chuck the powerpoint and get out where the trees are, but it wouldn't work with such a big audience.:9

It will work in Richmond feb 12 though; we're expecting ~70 folks. The 75 minutes will include climbing-and-cutting demo of restoration pruning--just found 2 trees there Saturday that will illustrate how heading cuts are sometimes better. Also girdling roots, deep planting, the kind of stuff you see everywhere; I can't pass up the chance to demo that as a followup to Bonnie's talk on planting.

Come on over if you're in the area; Ginter's a cool place. I can't speak for the other presentations but mine will have you either agreeing with a new way of :Eye: at natural targets or getting really disgusted with me for even talking about good stubs. It'll be different, that's for sure.

 

[Guy Meilleur]

Usual attendance for this symposium is 70-75; signups as of Friday were 104 . Goodgolly where are they all coming from?
Maybe Isabel put trees in the minds of folks near Richmond VA.

Still, there's room in the room and in the outdoors for the demo. Forecast is for 40's and clearing, nice weather to visit a garden in.

 

[Toddppm]

Is this pre-registration only?
I will probably go if I can sign up on site. Any of the classes have a limit?

 

[Guy Meilleur]

Originally posted by Toddppm
Is this pre-registration only?
I will probably go if I can sign up on site. Any of the classes have a limit?

No it's a big room--all general session, no breakouts. The outdoor walk will have Dr. Appleton bringing up the rear as I'll not be dwelling on the root/planting issues but she can for those who want to go deeper into planting:jester: boy Ireally crack myself up sometimes.

 

[Guy Meilleur]

Snow Ho Ho!

Forecast is for wet snow, ending about the time I'm supposed to do a climbing/pruning demo. Funfunfun.
Symposium is still on; backup plan if too nasty outside is a slide show on Champion Trees in the USA. Hope to see ya there!

 

[murphy4trees]

Guy,
If its any indication the tree service section of the Newport News yellow pages went from a little over 3 pages last year to almost 9 pages this year.... I got stuck on pg 8.... live and learn

 

[Guy Meilleur]

Originally posted by murphy4trees
the tree service section almost 9 pages this year.... I got stuck on pg 8.... live and learn

Learn what? Change to "Aardvark Tree Service--We'll lick the termites out of your trees"??
Do the NN YP's shave an arborist section?

 

[NeTree]

Originally posted by Guy Meilleur
Learn what? Change to "Aardvark Tree Service--We'll lick the termites out of your trees"??
Do the NN YP's shave an arborist section?

I've noticed that NONE of the YP's anywhere around me have an "Arborist" section... how about the rest of ya'll?

Lick the termites... LOL Guy! They ARE high in protein...

 

[Guy Meilleur]

Originally posted by netree
I've noticed that NONE of the YP's anywhere around me have an "Arborist" section...

So if you get the YP to start that section (which they should be happy to do), then you'll have an exclusive!