The Arborist Short Course: Advanced Tree Knowledge for Better Tree Care
DISCLAIMER
Before purchasing, review the rules of your licensing or certifying entity. It is your responsibility to confirm this course meets your CE requirements. See the credit tab on the course page for details.
What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
Learn more about the on-demand format in our FAQ or contact us at (715) 835-5900 or customerservice@halfmoonseminars.org
Agenda
Due to health and safety concerns regarding the COVID-19 virus, this seminar is now being offered as an online webinar which will take place over two days, May 7 and May 8, 2020.
Follow this link for registration: https://www.halfmoonseminars.org/seminars/133449/the-arborist-short-course-advanced-tree-knowledge-for-better-tree-care/online
Soils
Compaction – the destroyer of soils
Hydrology – learning to put water where it needs to be
Nutrients – increasing access to what plants need
Care – ways to avoid damaging soil
Roots
Structure – what are roots really like?
Pruning – learn when to cut and not to cut
Establishment – creating the optimum environment
Defective – identifying, correcting, or rejecting poor structure
Biology
Processes – discuss why trees do what they do
Health – increasing vigor, longevity, and stability
Responses – analyze how trees react
CODIT – compartmentalization of decay in trees
Biomechanics
Young tree training – the path to true sustainability
Branch structure – right vs wrong, strong vs weak structures
Risk – how to predict the future
Thigmomorphogenesis – altering the growth pattern
Pruning
Techniques – discuss ways to perform “tree surgery”
Restoration – analyze ways to help trees recover
Structural – creating safer, longer tree life
Standards – research that informs practice
Deforestation By Design™
Learning how to avoid predictable failures
Poor materials – caveat emptor: Let the buyer beware
Poor planning – what we want vs what trees need
Poor planting – how to eliminate discredited techniques and practices
Webinar Instructions
All attendees must log-on through their own email – attendees may not watch together if they wish to earn continuing education credit. HalfMoon Education Inc. must be able to prove attendance if either the attendee or HalfMoon Education Inc. is audited.
Certificates of completion can be downloaded in PDF form upon passing a short quiz. A link to the quiz will be sent to each qualifying attendee immediately after the webinar. The certificate can be downloaded from the Results page of the quiz upon scoring 80% or higher.
Webinars are presented via GoToWebinar, an easy-to-use application that can be run on most systems and tablets. Instructions and login information will be provided in an email sent close to the date of the webinar. It is highly recommended that you download, install and test the application before the webinar begins by clicking on the link in the email.
GoToWebinar App requirements:
Windows 7 – 10 or Mac OSX 10.9 (Mavericks) – 10.14 (Mojave)
Web Browser:
The two most recent version of the following browsers:
Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge
Internet Explorer v11 (or later) with Flash enabled
Internet connection: Minimum of 1Mbps Hardware: 2GB RAM or more
For more information, visit the Support section at www.gotowebinar.com.
Credits
Professional Engineers
6.5 Hours of Continuing Ed.
Landscape Architects
6.5 HSW Contact Hours
6.5 LA/CES HSW PDHs
Certified Arborists
6.5 ISA CEUs
(more CEUs shown inside)
Foresters
SAF Pending
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers 6.5 continuing education hours/PDHs to professional engineers in all states. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education provider for Indiana engineers (License No. CE21700059).
This course offers 6.5 HSW contact hours to landscape architects in most states, including Indiana. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Indiana.
The Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System has approved this seminar for 6.5 HSW PDHs. Only full attendance can be reported to the LA/CES.
HalfMoon Education is an approved engineer continuing education provider for Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), North Carolina, and North Dakota. HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved engineer and landscape architect continuing education sponsor in New York.
The International Society of Arboriculture has approved this course for the following CEUs: 6.5 Certified Arborist, Municipal Specialist, Climber Specialist, Utility Specialist Municipal Specialist, Aerial Lift; 2.5 BCMA Practice; 2.0 BCMA Science, Management.
HalfMoon Education has applied to the Society of American Foresters for course approval, which is pending. Visit www.halfmoonseminars.org for current information under this seminar listing.
This seminar offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to construction contracts. It has not been approved by any contractor licensing board for continuing education credit.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.
Speakers
John Palmer, BCMA
ISA Board Certified Master Arborist (#OH 6319B); ISA Tree Risk Assessment Qualified (TRAQ); Consultant, Lecturer, Author and Trainer.Mr. Palmer is a Board Certified Master Arborist® and Tree Risk Assessment Qualified by the International Society of Arboriculture, and a Consulting Arborist. He was the owner of a premium services landscaping company for 20 years. Mr. Palmer’s focus is on trees in urban and construction environments, soil deficiencies and the importance of soils for sustainable mature trees, increasing urban tree canopies by ensuring trees live to maturity, and unsustainable landscape designs. He does tree assessments for individuals, commercial clients, law firms, insurance companies, municipalities, landscape architecture firms, parks and woodland management agencies, and he has assessed and evaluated thousands of individual trees in the past decade.
Here’s what past attendees had to say about the program and presenter John Palmer:
“Very good. Very useful. I will change some of what I have been doing based on what I have learned from this webinar.” – Civil Engineer
“John is one of two presenters in the last 30 years who has held my interest throughout an entire all day program.” – Architect
“Excellent presentation and content. I especially appreciated all of the references in the material.” – Civil Engineer
