Hello Friends of Urban and Community Forestry.  Please find below an announcment of our upcoming Tree Steward Training workshop that we will once again be conducting at the Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts.  I encourage you to consider attending this informative and fun two day event.  To register, please contact Alan Snow at 413-577-2966 or alan.snow@state.ma.us

Take care everyone,

Eric

2008

Massachusetts

Tree Steward Training

Program

October 31, & November 1, 2008

Harvard Forest

Petersham, MA
 

Presented by:

Massachusetts DCR

Urban & Community Forestry Program & Massachusetts Community Forestry Council

Sponsored by:  The USDA Forest Service & Massachusetts Tree Wardens and Foresters Association

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31

9:00    Registration and Coffee

9:45    Welcome and Overview
        (Eric Seaborn, John O’Keefe)

10:15   Looking at Community Trees/ Break Out TST Discussion?
        (Eric Seaborn & Alan)

11:00     BREAK

11:15   Organizing a Volunteer                                                                        
             Street Tree Inventory 
             (John Walkey)

11:45    Organizing a Volunteer Tree                                                                                         

             Planting
             (Gretchen Folk)
   
12:30   LUNCH, provided

1:45    Trees Response to Pruning
         Out Doors (Brian Kane) 

2:45    Break

3:00    Managing Town and Private Forests 
             
4:00      Developing & Funding Your UCF Management Plan
        (Eric Seaborn, Alan Snow)  

5:00    Wrap Up

6:30    DINNER, provided
Evening: Informal Round Robin Sharing

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1

7:00 - 8:00     Breakfast

8:15     Working with Your
         Utility Arborist
        (Calvin Layton)

9:00     Sustainable Urban Soils
        (Chuck Sherzi, Jr.)                                 

10:00   BREAK

12:00   LUNCH, provided

1:00      Urban Forest Health
        Insects & Diseases
        (Ken Gooch) 

1:45    To Be Announced
 
3:15      Closing Remarks and                          
            Evaluation

3:30      End of Program

Presenters

Eric Seaborn ISA and MCA Certified Arborist, MA Ceritified Horticulturist & Urban Forestry Coordinator for the Massachusetts DCR Bureau of Forestry.

John O’Keefe is the Director of Education and Coordinator of the Fisher Museum at the Harvard Forest.

John Walkey Sustainable Cities Division Director for the Urban Ecology Institute

Gretchen Folk Grow Boston Greener Coordinator

Dr. Brian Kane is Professor of Commercial Arboriculture at the University of Massachusetts. His research focuses of risk trees and tree structure.  Dr. Kane is a MA and ISA Certified Arborist.

Alan Snow MA Certified Arborist & Community Action Forester with Massachusetts DCR Bureau of Forestry.

Calvin Layton MA Certified Arborist & Senior Vegetation Management Coordinator for Western MA Electric

Chuck Sherzi, Jr. MA and ISA Certified Arborist and soils instructor at the Landscape Institute of Harvard University in Cambridge.

Joe Perry is a licensed forester in Massachusetts and Service Forester with DCR Bureau of Forestry

Ken Gooch is a MA Certified Arborist & Forest Health Specialist with the DCR Bureau of Forestry

Eric F. Seaborn
Program Coordinator
DCR Urban and Community Forestry
ISA NE # 6451A, MCA, MCH
617-626-1468
eric.seaborn@state.ma.us