Pruning PLUS - TAMPA 

Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Hillsborough Community College - Plant City Campus
JR Trinkle Center
1206 North Park Road
Plant City, FL  33563
Venue phone:  813-757-2180

AGENDA

8:00 am Registration

INDOOR SESSIONS

8:30 am - 10:00 am
How Biomechanics and the Science of Tree Structure Guides our Efforts
Dr. Ed Gilman, Professor Emeritus - University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL
Dr. Gilman will focus on the practical needs of many arborists, and show how applied research supports structural pruning as the heart of risk reduction strategies. You will be surprised how simple mechanical concepts can be understood by your customers when explained using understandable terms. He will describe the lessons learned and mistakes he has made in the last 30 years of pruning trees throughout the US.

10:00 am Break with refreshments

 
10:15 am - 11:00 am
Reaching and Working the “Sweet Spot” – Operating at the Canopy Edge
Mark Chisholm, Senior Arborist, Aspen Tree Care, Jackson, NJ
Mark will show the most efficient strategies for reaching and working in the portion of the crown where good arboriculture takes place, i.e. the edge of the tree crown.

11:00
Are You Practicing Professional Arboriculture?
Mark Chisholm, Senior Arborist, Aspen Tree Care, Jackson, NJ
Learn just what it takes to be a professional in this business and better understand how you measure up.

11:45 am - 12:00 pm
Questions for Dr. Ed Gilman and Mark Chisholm

12:00 pm -1:00 pm Lunch (provided)

OUTDOOR SESSIONS

1:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Climbing and Pruning Demonstrations on Young and Old Trees
Dr. Ed Gilman, Professor Emeritus - University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL and
Mark Chisholm, Senior Arborist, Aspen Tree Care, Jackson, NJ
In this session Dr. Gilman and Mark Chisholm will work together pruning several trees to build structure that will serve the tree well into the future. Pruning the correct live branches can have a dramatic impact on how trees respond to gravity and storms. We will show you how to get this structure quickly and safely. Structural pruning - designed to reduce growth rate and weight on co-dominant and other large limbs - is the most effective method of minimizing damage from increasingly harsh weather conditions. Climbing and pruning methods will be demonstrated and discussed on as many trees as we have time to prune.

4:15 pm
Discussion of the Day’s Experiences and Pruning Recommendations
Dr. Ed Gilman, Professor Emeritus - University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL and
Mark Chisholm, Senior Arborist, Aspen Tree Care, Jackson, NJ

4:30 pm
Adjourn and return inside to sign CEU’s

OUR EXPERTS

Mark Chisholm                                                                                        
 One-part acrobat, one-part expert rope climber, one-part tree physiologist, and several parts competitor and thrill seeker, Mark Chisholm is a third-generation certified arborist with his family-owned Aspen Tree Expert Company in New Jersey. His expertise in tree care has made him a sought-after consultant and industry spokesperson for the world of  arboriculture, and he regularly travels the globe to consult with international ar borist associations and conducts educational sessions nationwide on behalf of STIHL, Inc. He has also done numerous national media interviews, including with Weather Channel’s Wake Up with Al and ABC’s 20/20.

Chisholm has won the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) New Jersey Chapter Tree Climbing Championship 21 of the last 22 years and won the ISA International Tree Climbing Championship in 1997, 2001 and, again, in 2010. Chisholm currently holds the world record in the 40-foot secured footlock climbing event, with a time of 10.8 seconds.

Sponsored by STIHL

Dr. Ed Gilman
Dr. Gilman received his PhD from Rutgers and was on the faculty of the University of Florida for 30 years as professor in the Environmental Horticulture Department, retiring in June of 2016. He is  author of six books on trees and landscape plants, many software programs, and web sites that have received numerous awards. Ed wrote “An Illustrated Guide to Pruning” which is in its second edition. He is a Florida Chapter ISA and Urban Forestry Council past-president.

He received the Authors Citation Award in 1999, the Educators Award in 2003, and the Research Award in 2007 from the ISA for sustained excellence in research, publishing and teaching timely information on tree care. He has published more than 80 scientific peer-reviewed journal articles in his 30 years in academia and industry.

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