Agenda

Registration:                        8:00 – 8:30 am

Morning Session:                8:30 am – 12:30 pm

Lunch (On your own):         12:30 – 1:30 pm

Afternoon Session:             1:30 – 4:30 pm

Benefits of Trees

    Functional benefits 
   Environmental services 
   Vegetation control 
   Wildlife habitat 
   Buffer noise/wind 
   Cooling 
   Light shield 
   Erosion control 
   Carbon sequestration 
   Traffic control 
   Medical benefits 
   Social benefits
   Economic benefits
   Aesthetic benefits
   Specimen tree 
   Seasonal color/persistence 
   Screening 
   Barrier 
   Frame vista 
   Define public space 
   Add depth

Tree Biology, Soils and Tree Health

   Tree biology and anatomy
   Site/soil characteristics
   Water management 
   Tree health and disease

Tree/Site Selection

   Environment
   Placement in design
   Planting trees 
   Maintaining trees

Trees and Risk Management

   Recognizing tree hazards 
   Trees and construction
   Urban tree policy-cost/benefits
   Tree appraisal

Identifying Tree Problems

   Diagnostic techniques 
   Trees and structures 
   Treatment options

Current Threats

   Emerald ash borer
   Southern pine beetle 
   Crape myrtle scale
   Hemlock wooley adelgid
   Gypsy moth
   Thousand cankers disease
   Bacterial leaf scorch 
   Sudden oak death

Credits

Professional Engineers
     6.5 PDHs

Landscape Architects
     6.5 HSW Continuing Ed. Hours
     6.5 LA CES HSW PDHs

Certified Arborists
     6.5 ISA CEUs (more information inside)

Foresters
     4.0 SAF Credit Hours

Architects
     6.5 PDUs (Public Protection)
     6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units

Continuing Education Credit Information

This seminar is open to the public and offers 6.5 PDHs to professional engineers, 6.5 Public Protection PDUs to architects, and 6.5 HSW continuing education hours to landscape architects in most states, including Georgia. Educators and courses are not subject to pre-approval in Georgia.

This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885) and the Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System for 6.5 HSW PDHs. Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA/CES and the LA/CES.

Engineers, architects, and landscape architects seeking continuing education credit in other states will be able to apply the hours earned at this seminar in most cases. Refer to specific state rules to determine eligibility.

HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota. HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved continuing education sponsor for New York architects and landscape architects.

The International Society of Arboriculture has approved this event for 6.5 credit hours for Certified Arborists and Municipal Specialists, 3.25 credit hours in BCMA Science, 2.5 credit hours in Management, and .75 hours in Management.

The Society of American Foresters has approved this event for 4.0 Category 1 continuing education hours.

Speakers

Marty Shaw, RCA BCMA

Author of The Professional Amenity Plant Appraisal Handbook

In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, Mr. Shaw grew up in the sleepy little Appalachian town of Bristol, Tennessee, a small city that rests on the boundary between the two states of Tennessee and Virginia. Upon graduation from Bristol Tennessee High School, he enlisted in the United States Navy where he served as ships baker aboard the USS Shark (a fast attack submarine) for four years. When his enlistment came to an end, he took a job selling lawn care service to residential owners in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and later, moved to Knoxville, Tennessee where he worked as general manager of a landscape contracting company while attending the University of Tennessee for Ornamental Horticulture and Landscape Design. Eventually, Mr. Shaw took over as president of a wholesale tree care supply business and built the company from $70,000 in sales to over $1.2 million in just seven years. During that time, he married his wife Kristin and they had two children together. With encouragement from Kristin he also developed an interest in arboricultural consulting, and on May 11th, 1999, he became the first American Society of Consulting Arborist (ASCA) member in Middle Tennessee. From 1998 to 2003, he also served on the Tennessee Urban Forestry Council. Mr. Shaw has since consulted with private landowners, insurance companies, attorneys, tree companies, cooperative extension service agents, country clubs, state urban forestry organizations, universities, and colleges. He has worked on some of the most challenging, difficult, and highest profile cases across the United States. Mr. Shaw is a registered consulting arborist, a board-certified master arborist and one of only a handful of arborists worldwide who consult full-time. He is a UAS pilot, a real estate appraiser and he brings a broad range of skills from a variety of scientific and professional disciplines. An autodidact, Mr. Shaw brings a unique perspective and a talent for learning to any project. He has developed authoritative expertise to create a greater understanding in tree related matters.

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