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Help Find Homes for Emerald Ash Borer Traps
The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service plans to greatly expand its EAB detection survey
in 2012 and has solicited assistance from the Texas
Forest Service, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service,
Stephen F. Austin State University College of Forestry
and Agriculture, and several volunteer citizen scientist
groups. These agencies with the help of volunteers like
you have agreed to install some 700 survey traps in 71
Texas counties.
Click
Here
to participate in this trapping effort.
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Texas
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Feb. 3, 4, 9, 10 2012
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Arboriculture 101 Course
Get ready to take the Certified Arborist Exam or just
brush up on your tree skills. Arboriculture 101 is a
four-day short course designed to provide practitioners
with an in-depth knowledge of how to care for urban
trees. Dr. Todd Watson, an ISA Board-Certified Master
Arborist integrates research and practical experience in
his teaching style. The course is built around the 12
domains of the Certified Arborist Exam. Former students
say the “quality of teaching was excellent” and the
course was “very informative” and appreciated the
“attention to real world issues”. Attendees routinely
score significantly higher than the national average on
the Certified Arborist Exam.
Click here for the brochure.
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College Station
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Feb. 17, 2012
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2012 North Central Texas Urban
Forestry Workshop
Don't Doubt the Drought
The Trinity Blacklands and Cross Timbers Urban Forestry
Councils would love to celebrate the new year with
everyone at the 2012 North Central Texas Urban
Forestry Conference to be held Friday, February 17th
at the Ruthe Jackson Center in Grand Prairie, TX.
This is a great opportunity to learn some new
information or refresh your knowledge in general.
Speakers include:
Kevin St. Jacques:
Complete Streets
Dr. Michael Merchant: Key Tree Pests During
Drought
Peter MacDonagh: Structural Soils
Dr. David Appel: The Consequences of Drought on
Tree Health
David Marks: Environmental Design's 911 Tree
Project
Melanie Migura Ft. Worth Street Tree Inventory
Project
This year’s Conference is entitled
Don’t Doubt the
Drought! Come earn important CEU’s
and visit with old friends, either way come out and join
us in February!
Click here for more information
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Grande Prairie
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March 24, 2012
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Texas Wildlife and
Woodland Expo
Texas Wildlife and Woodland Expo & Spring Fling is
designed to help families learn a little about the land
on which they live — and how to best take care of it —
through hands-on clinics, live demonstrations and
children’s activities.
Though Expo & Spring Fling is an
annual event, this year organizers have placed a special
emphasis on helping residents recover from drought and
wildfires.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a nature
lover or outdoor enthusiast. It doesn’t matter if you’re
an urban homeowner or a rural landowner. It doesn’t
matter if you’ve got just one tree in your yard or
thousands of them. Texas Wildlife and Woodland Expo &
Spring Fling has got you covered.
We’ve got free, hands-on
clinics and live demonstrations
that will teach you how to nourish your plants and
trees, attract wildlife to your property, collect and
use rainwater and protect your home from wildfires.
And don’t forget to take your
little ones to the
Family Adventure Zone,
where they can climb a rock wall, take a peek at a live
screech owl and learn how to kayak.
At Expo & Spring Fling, you’ll play
for a day but learn for a lifetime.
Click
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Conroe
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January 2011
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Epic Drought In Texas
Water Trees Now!
Much of Texas is at the highest level of drought and
this is weakening and killing valuable trees.
The Texas ISA, Texas Forest Service and the Texas Urban
Forestry Council urge you to send a message/press
release out to your customers, citizens and clients
asking them to water their trees right now.
Click here for tips on watering
trees in this exceptional drought.
Thank you for helping our valuable Texas trees.
Keith Brown, President
Texas Chapter, International Society of Arboriculture
http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu
Click here for the long term drought forecast for Texas
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Other Events of
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2011 update - Texas
Supplement to the Guide for Tree Appraisal
This Texas Guide is designed to
be used by professionals who need to perform plant
appraisals involving casualties, damages and takings
of plant materials.
You can purchase the Texas Supplement here.
This document
represents the third approximation of the “Texas
Supplement to the Guide for Plant Appraisal”,
developed by the Texas Regional Plant Appraisal
Committee under the auspices of the Texas Chapter -
International Society of Arboriculture. It is
intended to be utilized as a companion or supplement
to the 9th Edition of the Guide for Plant Appraisal,
written by the Council of Tree and Landscape
Appraisers and published by the International
Society of Arboriculture.
If you are a member of ISA, you
can contact Mike Walterscheidt at
isat@eccwireless.com for
a free copy of the 2011 Texas Supplement. If not,
you can purchase it here and as a bonus, you will
also receive a free $40 Texas Chapter of the
International Society of Arboriculture 2011
membership.
You can purchase the Guide for Plant Appraisal, 9th
Edition here.
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ISA Online Learning Center |
ISA Online Learning
Center
The ISA Online Learning Center is
your portal to learning and professional development
in the field of arboriculture. Here, you will find
training courses such as the Introduction to
Arboriculture Interactive Series as well as other
courses on a variety of topics. Now, continuing
education is available online 24 hours a day no
matter where you are located.
As a
special launch offer, take the Tree Worker Safety
module for free
and attain CEUs by successfully completing the
course!
To get started, click the button
below to login using your ISA online account or to
create a free account to enter the ISA Online
Learning Center.
You do not have to be an ISA member to create an online account.
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Great Texas Tree Trail |
Share your tree
knowledge with your neighbors!
Have you ever wanted to brush up on your tree
identification skills or share your tree knowledge with
others? With the Great Texas Tree Trail you can do both!
If you have an iPhone or an Android smart phone, or even
if you just have a desktop or a laptop computer - you
can create and share a tree trail right where you live.
Your Texas Chapter ISA has teamed up with the Texas
Urban Forestry Council, Texas Forest Service and others
to create the Great Texas Tree Trail.
If you would like to be a “Trail Boss” and contribute a
Tree Trail, just go to
www.GreatTexasTreeTrail.org
and follow the directions on how to use or create a Tree
Trail.
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ISA Launches ArborPod
Podcasts, or Personal On-demand Broadcasts, have become
one of the most direct ways of receiving educational
programming specific to a particular topic of interest
through a series of digital audio or video recordings.
How does a podcast work? Audio or video files can be
automatically transmitted via Internet and downloaded to
a personal computer, smart phone, or MP3 player. A
podcast can be compared to a magazine subscription in
that the user subscribes to a podcast series and new
content is generated and received on a regular basis.
ISA has identified this medium as a highly accessible
and effective means of providing ongoing, arboricultural
information to tree care professionals to address
today’s most current and relevant topics. We are excited
and proud to have launched the first series of ArborPod™—Science
of Arboriculture—which is now available through iTunes.
Detective Dendro
Climbing and Rigging
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Free online training for boards, supporters
Tree Board University is a free online training program
that provides self-paced training modules for both
current tree board members and those interested in
assuming leadership roles.
More |
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Arborist webcasts
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Webinar
Trainings from TCIA
The Tree
Care Industry Association is pleased to offer the
convenience and flexibility of a new learning tool – the
TCIA Webinar Series. These education and training
webinars will enable companies to educate a large number
of employees at once, reduce travel expenses, and
maintain consistent levels of productivity by
eliminating time out of the office. All you need to
participate is a computer with an Internet connection
for the visuals and a phone to call in for the audio
portion. As an added benefit, TCIA members receive
reduced pricing for all sessions.
Click here for more
info.
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Alliance for Community Trees Archived Webcasts
On the third Thursday of each month, the Alliance for
Community Trees (ACT) hosts a national webcast at 1 p.m.
EST. These webcasts are designed to provide information
and training for urban forestry volunteers, community
planners, and other professionals. All webcasts, from
June 2007 to the most recent in February 2011, are
archived on the ACT website and are free to view.
Sessions last approximately one hour and highlight
successful programs and practices from across the
nation.
RECENT WEBCASTS
Available for free download
* Storms
Over the Urban Forest- Part I: Natural Hazard Management
Planning
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Tapping Carbon Markets for Urban Forests
* Tree
Technology- Part II: CRMs
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Reaching Bilingual Audiences
To view archived ACT webcasts visit:
http://actrees.org/site/resources/webcasts
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