Contact
Florida Chapter ISAjan@floridaisa.org
Office: 941-342-0153
Where
Miami: Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden10901 Old Cutler Road
Coral Gables, FL 33156
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SUSTAINABLE TREE MANAGEMENT:
Miami
Wednesday, May 4 2016
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
10901 Old Cutler Road
Coral Gables, FL 33156
Venue phone: 305-667-1651
CEUs:
ISA: Certified Arborists: 6.25 BCMA: 4(M) 2.25(P)
FNGLA: 4 LIAF: 4
Designing and managing landscape sites and soil before and during construction:
- Review standards for managing trees during construction
- Learn about new tree preservation tools
- Learn how to manage soil on construction sites
- Learn how others are restoring vacant urban sites and utilizing urban wood waste
- Discuss why urban landscapes fail
- Learn about design strategies for successful landscapes
- Discuss how to manage conflicts between tree roots and infrasructure
- Learn recent research about planting and establishment
AGENDA
8:00 – 8:30
Registration (continental breakfast available)
MORNING INDOOR
8:30 – 9:30
Managing Trees During Construction
- Mike Galvin, SavATree, Washington DC
In this session Mike will discuss standards for tree preservation, review some case studies to show how these play out in practice, look at some new tree preservation tools and discuss approaches to integrating trees into stormwater planning.
9:30 – 10:15
Managing Soil on Construction Sites: A Difficult Job Made Simpler
- Dr. Ed Gilman, Professor, UF/IFAS
Specifications governing soil management are vital for implementation of successful urban designs, but they are hard to come by - until now. With numerous studies completed and losts of combined experience, we have made leaps in designing and writing specifications for building in natural areas as well as for existing sites.
10:15 - 10:30
Break with refreshments
10:30 – 11:15
Turning Wastes into Assets: Restoring Vacant Urban Sites
- Mike Galvin, SavATree, Washington DC
Mike will highlight two innovagtive initiatives of the US Forest Service Research and Development. In this first of two sessions, he will discuss the Baltimore Urban Waters Partnership and how it looks to transform landcover in order to improve water quality.
11:15 – 12:00
Why Urban Landscapes Fail and Design Strategies for Success, Part I
- Dr. Gail Hansen, Assoc. Professor, UF
This presentation discusses several common landscape challenges, including regulations and codes that often lead to failure. Strategies for success are presented.
12:00 – 12:15
Q&A with morning speakers; tram riders will pick up a box lunch and depart for the tram tour.
12:15 – 1:00
Lunch (provided)
Optional Lunchtime Botanical Garden Tram Tour: Grab a BOX LUNCH and a beverage at noon and head over to the main gate (5 minute walk) to jump on the noon tram tour. Enjoy your lunch while seeing Fairchild Garden from the comfort of a shaded tram. Tram tours are 45 minutes long. MARK YOUR REGISTRATION.
1:00 – 1:45
Why Urban Landscapes Fail and Desogm Strategoes for Success, Part II
- Dr. Gail Hansen, Assoc. Professor, UF
1:45 – 2:15
Turning Wastes into Assets: Urban Wood Utilization
- Mike Galvin, SavATree, Washington DC
In this second session, Mike will discuss the Baltimore Wood Project where the city's environmental liabilities were transformed into economic opportunities and desirable natural amenities. We will see how wood recovery from building deconstruction and tree care operations can create jobs and reduce landfill space.
2:15 – 3:00
Root Conflict Management as Part of Urban Design
- Dr. Ed Gilman, Professor, UF/IFAS
Conflicts between tree roots and infrastructure are all too common. In this session Ed will discuss methods to avoid conflicts withroots as well as offer solutions when roots are in conflict with urban infrastructure. Topics include making space for tree roots, traditional urban landscape designs vs. designs that actually work and why, root barriers, managing root problems on large trees,and more. You will be surprised at the amount of research and information that arborists have for treating roots on established trees.
3:00 - 3:15
Break (with refreshments)
3:15 - 4:00
All New Planting and Establishment Specifications
- Dr. Ed Gilman, Professor, UF/IFAS
Research in clay and sandy soils in California, Texas, Michigan and Florida is beginning to tell a story about how we should be planting trees in our cities and parks. Some results may surprise you. For example, did you knos that mulch placed in the wrong location can reduce survival and cause stem-girdling roots? And did you know that planting depth affects tree stress and root growth after installation? Come and hear the latest research on how irrigation, nursery production methods, mulch and planting depth affect tree establishment.
4:00
Award CEUs and adjourn
OUR SPEAKERS
Michael Galvin is the Director of SavATree Consulting Group in Washington DC. His wide-ranging expertise in arboriculture includes urban and community forestry management, state-of-the-art tree inventory and management plans, tree protection and preservation during construction, as well as tree risk management and appraisals. He is an accomplished speaker, researcher and published author on environmental and sustainability issues. He has over 25 years of experience in arboriculture, including 13 years spent with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Mike is a Registered Consulting Arborist and recipient of the 2011 True Professionals award from ISA.
Dr. Ed Gilman is a professor at the University of Florida in the Environmental Horticulture Department in Gainesville. He has receved the prestigious Author's Citation award in 1999 from ISA for his books and CD-ROMS on trees and landscape plants and has received numerous other awards for his horticultural writing from the American Society for Horticultural Science. He received the Gunslogen Award in 2001 from the American Horticultural Society for his innovative work in developing software for he horticultural industry. Dr. Gilman serves the landscape industry and allied professions with his tireless teachng and research efforts nationwide.
Dr. Gail Hansen is an associate professor in the Environmental Horticulture Department at the University of Florida. She is a faculty member in the Center for Landscape Conservation and Ecology (CLCE) where her extension program addresses best design practices for residential and urban landscape design. Dr. Hansen has an MLA and PhD in landscape architecture. She worked for a private landscape architecture firm in Gainesville for eight years and as an adjunct faculty for seven years in the landscape architecture deparatment at UF before joining the environmental horticulture department where she teaches the residential landscape design course.
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