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.