TREE BIOLOGY from A to Z
Fort Lauderdale

Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Emma Lou Olson Civic Center
1801 NE 6th Street
Pompano Beach, FL  33060
host phone: 954-786-4111

Designed to inform people who work with trees how and why our treatments actually work... how does pruning, fertilizing and injecting actually impact the metabolic tree systems? Join our experts to learn the facts from A (autotrophs) to, well, almost Z (xylem).

This seminar is intended to increase your understanding of tree biology in order to make you a better tree practitioner. You will be able to explain to your clients how your treatments will benefit their trees from a biological perspective.

CEUs:
Certified Arborist: 6.25     BCMA: 6.25(S)    FNGLA: 4     LIAF: 4
Landscape Architects: 6.25 (Course #0010175 Provider #004488)

AGENDA

8:00 – 8:30 Registration with a light breakfast

8:30–9:30 Shared Biology: Discovering Your Inner Tree - Joe Murray
What if trees were more like animals? More like pets? If trees could run up to our cars to greet us when we return from work, might we be more mindful of trees and provide them with more appropriate care? Naturally, this scenario presents a host of challenges for the trees - running, vision, memory, emotion. Nevertheless, if the reader will permit me the latitude to present information about tree and human biology in a nontraditional approach, perhaps we can evaluate our similarities and differences with trees with fresh eyes. Enlightened by this perspective and knowledge, we can provide to our customers more accurate comparisons between trees and people to help them make more informed decisions on proper tree care.

9:30–10:15 Let’s Take a Journey Inside the Tree - Dr. Ed Gilman
Xylem, phloem, parenchyma, branch protection zone, reaction zones: where are all these parts and what do they do? Why should I care about this; does it really relate to my business; and how can I make this matter to my employees and customers? The relationships among important parts of a plant are presented.  We will take the complex and transform it into the understandable so you make scientifically sound arboriculture decisions. Although you may not present this to your customers, you will come away from this session with a new confidence as to why and how your treatments work.  It is quite simple when you understand what happens inside the tree.

10:15-10:30 Break

10:30-11:20 How Arboriculture Treatments Work, or Don’t Work - Dr. Ed Gilman
A basic understanding of tree and shrub biology is essential to grasp impacts of plant health care. Understanding how plants react to fertilizer, pruning, soil modifications, root injury and more will empower you to treat trees with confidence and allow you to teach others how treatments can be beneficial, or harmful. It will also help you understand why over-treatment is so detrimental. You will be able to explain the changes in the tree that occur when a woody plant is treated.

11:20-12:00 Outside Discussion and Demonstration with All Speakers

12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH

1:00-2:00 Trees and Turf: An Antagonistic Relationship - Joe Murray
Trees growing in lawns may look nice and, indeed, have become the norm for landscapes in the US, but this is not what nature intended. Sharing the same space, neither trees nor turf provide the maximum benefits proclaimed by their respective industries, at least not without the unsustainable practice of providing ecological subsidies. By better understanding their competitive strategies and roles in natural succession, arborists can speak more confidently about the necessity of keeping trees and turf apart.

2:00-3:15 The Impact of Planting, Pruning, Trunk Injection, Fertilizing on Water Relations in Trees – Dr. Andrew Koeser
In this session Dr. Koeser will explain how the impacts of several arboricultural practices including planting, pruning, trunk injection, fertilizing and more are critically impacted by the complex movement of water inside the tree. You will better understand the biological how and why of many common arboricultural practices.

3:15-3:30 Break

3:30-4:15 How Trees Respond to Adversity – Dr. Ed Gilman
People heal, trees don’t.  Compartmentalization of dysfunction and decay inside the tree is the mechanism by which trees defend themselves. Trees cannot run from adversity but they have mechanisms to resist fungi that take advantage of openings. Learn how different species respond when they are injured with trunk wounds, large pruning cuts, storms, and more. Come away with the ability to predict tree response and apply treatments which are biologically sound.

4:15 Adjourn and Sign for CEUs

OUR SPEAKERS

DR. ED GILMAN
Ed Gilman received his Ph.D. from Rutgers and has been on the faculty since 1986 as professor in the Environmental Horticulture Department at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He teaches arboriculture, conducts research on tree root systems and pruning and works extensively with our profession. He is the 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 third 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.  

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