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Description: Pesticide applicator certification is a legal requirement for persons using restricted-use pesticides in any situation, as well as for those individuals who apply general-use products in a commercial situation and are required to be licensed by both state and federal regulations.
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Description: his year’s Junior Naturalist Club, a 4-H program for elementary students (ages 6-12), explores the exciting habitats of South Carolina. From the mountains to the sea, participants will learn about the animals and plants who call this State home, and the landscapes that define South Carolina.
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Subject: Webinar
Description: This one-hour free webinar will explain the income tax reporting rules as well as the major new law changes affecting timber transactions.
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Description: Producers and applicators alike are encouraged to attend to gain valuable information on how to stay on label, be more productive, and be efficient in the field. The clinics are free and the day will end with a free lunch.
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Description: On Tuesday, March 6th the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, in partnership with University of Tennessee Extension, will host a timber management workshop in Pell City. The program, titled "What to Do with Degraded Hardwood Stands: Assessment, Potential Treatments, and Management Tradeoffs", will address the causes, issues, and management techniques to avoid and improve mismanaged or damaged hardwood timberlands. Stands which have repeatedly seen the most valuable trees removed, commonly known as high-graded or select cut forests, are left with poor quality trees and species of very low economic and wildlife value. Also, stands with logging damage, those with trees poorly suited for the site, and also grazing, insect, fire and weather related damage may also be considered degraded. However, with focused and deliberate management, these stands can be revived. This meeting will outline that process; discussing the causes and ways to avoid degrading or mismanaging hardwood stands along with presenting specific management options and techniques that landowners and managers should implement in order to reach their management objectives while maintaining healthy and productive hardwood timberlands.
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Description: See the correct pruning techniques for all that should be and learn which shrubs should NOT be pruned this time of year.
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Description: There are many different types of fruit trees that can be grown in your backyard. This seminar covers how to plant and care for them so you can "reap the fruits" of your labor.
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Subject: Educational Hike
Description: Join us each month as we explore a different area of the 17,500-acre Clemson Experimental Forest (CEF). These fun and informal walks will expose you to a diversity of natural and cultural resources in the CEF. Meet educator James Wilkins (and special guests!) at a pre-determined location and carpool or follow us on the trail. The Forest never disappoints! Register online or by email at least 2 days in advance.
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Description: Seminar presented by Donna Shearer, Founder and Chairman, Save Georgia's Hemlocks. The class will provide an overview of the importance of the hemlocks, the invasive insect that's killing them, why timely action is vital, options property owners have for saving their own trees, and opportunities for volunteers to help save the trees on public lands.
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Subject: Workshop
Description: This two-day workshop is an opportunity for women landowners to learn about forest management topics that are important to them in a relaxed, fun setting. Learn how to read maps and deeds, measure your forest trees, and market timber and non-timber forest products. This workshop is very "hands-on" with demonstrations, field tours, and opportunities to practice new skills.
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Subject: Workshop
Description: This two-day workshop is an opportunity for women landowners to learn about forest management topics that are important to them in a relaxed, fun setting. Learn how to read maps and deeds, measure your forest trees, and market timber and non-timber forest products. This workshop is very "hands-on" with demonstrations, field tours, and opportunities to practice new skills.
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Subject: Course
Description: Learn more about the invasive plants that can be found in Manatee County, keys to identifying them, and the importance of removing them to prevent further spreading.
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Description: Topics include: Prevention, Identification, Mechanical, Chemical, & Physical Control, Native Plant Selection, Assistance Resources and On-site Demonstrations.
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Description: Diseases and Insects In Landscape and Urban Forestry As Spring comes into the Wiregrass Region, your plants, shrubs and trees will once again come under attack from diseases and insects. Be ready to recognize the warning signs and know how to prevent and manage impacts from costly diseases and insects. This three hour workshop will focus on the native diseases and insects currently affecting landscape and urban forestry, as well as potential new invasive threats.
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Description: Learn how to graft apple trees and take home four grafted trees for your home garden.
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Subject: Tour
Description: This workshop will cover methods and best practices when converting to longleaf while maintaining a pine overstory. Content is designed for natural Resource professionals and extremely knowledgeable landowners.
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Description: Find out all about how to grow cherry, plum, and peach trees in your home landscape. You may even learn about pear trees as a bonus! Preparing the soil, amendments like fertilizer, how many plants do you need, pruning, and harvesting are all to be discussed with this program.
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Subject: Tour
Description: This workshop will cover methods and best practices when converting to longleaf while maintaining a pine overstory. Content is designed for natural Resource professionals and extremely knowledgeable landowners.
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Subject: Tour
Description: This workshop will cover methods and best practices when converting to longleaf while maintaining a pine overstory. Content is designed for natural Resource professionals and extremely knowledgeable landowners.
Subject: Workshop
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Description: Learn how to graft apple trees and take home four grafted trees for your home garden.
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Description: With a little information and good selection, anyone can include native plants for a garden that is attractive in even the most urban of settings. Including natives can be done without replanting your whole yard - even small changes help offset habitat loss. We can all enjoy healthier and more resilient landscapes by increasing plant diversity (and beauty!) in our own backyards.
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Description: Private landowners, professional foresters, and those in the wood industry are cordially invited to attend the Tennessee Healthy Hardwoods forestry field days. The partners in this program are providing these educational programs at no cost to participants.
THH is coordinated with a partnership of professionals who seek to provide non-formal education to private forest landowners.
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Description: Join us each month as we explore a different area of the 17,500-acre Clemson Experimental Forest (CEF). These fun and informal walks will expose you to a diversity of natural and cultural resources in the CEF. Meet educator James Wilkins (and special guests!) at a pre-determined location and carpool or follow us on the trail. The Forest never disappoints! Register online or by email at least 2 days in advance.
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Subject: Webinar
Description: Inclement weather, particularly severe thunderstorms and wintry precipitation, is a major cause of damage to urban forests. In this webinar, we will learn how inclement weather impacts trees and how we can create storm-resilient urban forests through careful species selection and preventive maintenance pruning.
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Subject: Webinar
Description: This webinar will discuss strategies for multi-use forestry; specifically managing forests for health and productivity while creating deer-friendly habitats.
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Subject: Conference
Description: The ANREP meeting will focus on innovative Extension educational programs in natural resources sustainability and stewardship, particularly after natural or man-made disasters.
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Subject: Conference
Description: The ANREP meeting will focus on innovative Extension educational programs in natural resources sustainability and stewardship, particularly after natural or man-made disasters.
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Subject: Conference
Description: The ANREP meeting will focus on innovative Extension educational programs in natural resources sustainability and stewardship, particularly after natural or man-made disasters.
Subject: Webinar
Description: Presentations by experts in the area of land transfer, legacy planning and addressing the problem of clear title and tenure issues that interfere with our mutual goal of family-owner sustainable forestry and agriculture.
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Subject: Conference
Description: The ANREP meeting will focus on innovative Extension educational programs in natural resources sustainability and stewardship, particularly after natural or man-made disasters.
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Subject: Conference
Description: The ANREP meeting will focus on innovative Extension educational programs in natural resources sustainability and stewardship, particularly after natural or man-made disasters.
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Description: Deer and Turkey Seasons are over, so what do I do with my hunting land until I plant food plots in Fall? If this question has ever crossed your mind, or you would just like to learn more about effective wildlife management techniques, this workshop is targeted for you. 'After the Hunt: Year-round Wildlife Management' will focus on wildlife and forestry management techniques and property enhancements that can be completed between the hunting seasons (April to September). This all day, in-depth workshop will be hosted at the Coffee County Extension Office and cover topics like Summer Forages and Food plots, Forestry Management Practices, Predator Control and Trapping, Roads and Culverts, Invasive Plants and Herbicides, and Camera Surveys. There will also be live demonstrations of some of the techniques discussed in class. Lunch will be provided to attendees, therefore pre-registration is required. For more information or to register, call the Coffee County Extension office at (334) 894-5596 by April 30th. Space is limited
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Subject: Conference
Description: The ANREP meeting will focus on innovative Extension educational programs in natural resources sustainability and stewardship, particularly after natural or man-made disasters.
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Subject: Conference
Description: The ANREP meeting will focus on innovative Extension educational programs in natural resources sustainability and stewardship, particularly after natural or man-made disasters.
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Subject: Conference
Description: The ANREP meeting will focus on innovative Extension educational programs in natural resources sustainability and stewardship, particularly after natural or man-made disasters.
Subject: Webinar
Description: Presentations by experts in the area of land transfer, legacy planning and addressing the problem of clear title and tenure issues that interfere with our mutual goal of family-owner sustainable forestry and agriculture.
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Subject: Conference
Description: The ANREP meeting will focus on innovative Extension educational programs in natural resources sustainability and stewardship, particularly after natural or man-made disasters.
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Subject: Conference
Description: The ANREP meeting will focus on innovative Extension educational programs in natural resources sustainability and stewardship, particularly after natural or man-made disasters.
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Description: Deer and Turkey Seasons are over, so what do I do with my hunting land until I plant food plots in Fall? If this question has ever crossed your mind, or you would just like to learn more about effective wildlife management techniques, this workshop is targeted for you. 'After the Hunt: Year-round Wildlife Management' will focus on wildlife and forestry management techniques and property enhancements that can be completed between the hunting seasons (April to September). This all day, in-depth workshop will be hosted at the Coffee County Extension Office and cover topics like Summer Forages and Food plots, Forestry Management Practices, Predator Control and Trapping, Roads and Culverts, Invasive Plants and Herbicides, and Camera Surveys. There will also be live demonstrations of some of the techniques discussed in class. Lunch will be provided to attendees, therefore pre-registration is required. For more information or to register, call the Coffee County Extension office at (334) 894-5596 by April 30th. Space is limited
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Subject: Workshop
Description: Each spring Virginia Cooperative Extension offers one-day short courses on management
options for forestland in Southside Virginia and this year for the first time we will focus on Tree Identification. ! This will be a precursor to forest health to include an update on invasive
plants and insects and a short field trip after lunch.
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Subject: Workshop
Description: An overview of new findings in quail ecology and management
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Description: This meeting will help navigate issues affecting forest landowners, including state and federal rules,
market conditions, land surveys, solar panels, taxes, and estate planning.
Subject: Conference
Description: The Eastern Seed Zone Summit will bring together a diverse group of forestry and natural resource professionals to develop terminology that describes the origins of seed in the eastern US applicable to and useful for practitioners in many fields. The Summit will be the culmination of work done in 2017 by the Eastern Seed Zone Forum (ESZF), a wide assortment of people interested in the collection, production, storage and deployment of the seeds of trees and native plants led by employees of the USDA Forest Service from all three deputy areas: National forest system (NFS), Research and Development and State and Private Forestry. The focus will be on trees and plants used for reforestation or restoration plantings. Forestry and natural resource professionals from federal and state agencies, botanical gardens, universities, NGOs, private companies, and Extension agents are encouraged to attend.
Subject: Workshop
Description: The workshop will focus on educating SC forest landowners regarding the amount of carbon sequestered due to various forest management activities and how they can benefit from the carbon market.
Subject: Webinar
Description: Since 1991, the Penn State Extension Urban Forestry Program has delivered a variety of programs. This webinar will explore how the Extension urban forestry program was born out of a unique partnership and continues today because of the success of its outreach and strong collaborations.
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Description: The Eastern Seed Zone Summit will bring together a diverse group of forestry and natural resource professionals to develop terminology that describes the origins of seed in the eastern US applicable to and useful for practitioners in many fields. The Summit will be the culmination of work done in 2017 by the Eastern Seed Zone Forum (ESZF), a wide assortment of people interested in the collection, production, storage and deployment of the seeds of trees and native plants led by employees of the USDA Forest Service from all three deputy areas: National forest system (NFS), Research and Development and State and Private Forestry. The focus will be on trees and plants used for reforestation or restoration plantings. Forestry and natural resource professionals from federal and state agencies, botanical gardens, universities, NGOs, private companies, and Extension agents are encouraged to attend.
Subject: Workshop
Description: There are a wide variety of land management and land conservation programs offered by private non-profit organizations as well as local, state, and federal conservation agencies. Please join PEC and our partners as we provide a comprehensive overview of the available programs and sources of funding available for your property.
Subject: Workshop
Description: The workshop will use the latest edition of the award winning manual, The Woods in Your Backyard: Learning to Create and Enhance Natural Areas Around Your Home. This full-color 108-page workbook helps woodland owners identify goals for their land, and walks through the steps to success. Whether you are interested in converting lawn to forest, creating wildlife habitat, or providing a useful outdoor space for your family, this program is for you.
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Subject: Workshop
Description: The workshop will use the latest edition of the award winning manual, The Woods in Your Backyard: Learning to Create and Enhance Natural Areas Around Your Home. This full-color 108-page workbook helps woodland owners identify goals for their land, and walks through the steps to success. Whether you are interested in converting lawn to forest, creating wildlife habitat, or providing a useful outdoor space for your family, this program is for you.
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Subject: Workshop
Description: The workshop will use the latest edition of the award winning manual, The Woods in Your Backyard: Learning to Create and Enhance Natural Areas Around Your Home. This full-color 108-page workbook helps woodland owners identify goals for their land, and walks through the steps to success. Whether you are interested in converting lawn to forest, creating wildlife habitat, or providing a useful outdoor space for your family, this program is for you.
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Subject: Workshop
Description: The workshop will use the latest edition of the award winning manual, The Woods in Your Backyard: Learning to Create and Enhance Natural Areas Around Your Home. This full-color 108-page workbook helps woodland owners identify goals for their land, and walks through the steps to success. Whether you are interested in converting lawn to forest, creating wildlife habitat, or providing a useful outdoor space for your family, this program is for you.
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Subject: Workshop
Description: The workshop will use the latest edition of the award winning manual, The Woods in Your Backyard: Learning to Create and Enhance Natural Areas Around Your Home. This full-color 108-page workbook helps woodland owners identify goals for their land, and walks through the steps to success. Whether you are interested in converting lawn to forest, creating wildlife habitat, or providing a useful outdoor space for your family, this program is for you.
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Subject: Workshop
Description: The workshop will use the latest edition of the award winning manual, The Woods in Your Backyard: Learning to Create and Enhance Natural Areas Around Your Home. This full-color 108-page workbook helps woodland owners identify goals for their land, and walks through the steps to success. Whether you are interested in converting lawn to forest, creating wildlife habitat, or providing a useful outdoor space for your family, this program is for you.
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Description: Non-native invasive plants are quickly overwhelming many properties by tearing down the forest canopy and overtaking our native plants at the tree, shrub and/or groundcover levels. These plants are also overwhelming the ability of many landowners to understand what invasive plants exist on their land and what it will take to control them.
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Subject: Workshop
Description: The workshop will use the latest edition of the award winning manual, The Woods in Your Backyard: Learning to Create and Enhance Natural Areas Around Your Home. This full-color 108-page workbook helps woodland owners identify goals for their land, and walks through the steps to success. Whether you are interested in converting lawn to forest, creating wildlife habitat, or providing a useful outdoor space for your family, this program is for you.
Subject: Workshop
Description: There are a variety of land management and land conservation programs available to farm and forest landowners in Loudoun County, and more generally, in Virginia. Join PEC and our conservation partners for a free dinner and learn about these federal, state, and local programs. Also, hear a review of conservation successes and challenges in the Catoctin Creek watershed
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Subject: Workshop
Description: The workshop will use the latest edition of the award winning manual, The Woods in Your Backyard: Learning to Create and Enhance Natural Areas Around Your Home. This full-color 108-page workbook helps woodland owners identify goals for their land, and walks through the steps to success. Whether you are interested in converting lawn to forest, creating wildlife habitat, or providing a useful outdoor space for your family, this program is for you.
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Description: Each spring Virginia Cooperative Extension offers one-day short courses on management
options for forestland in Southside Virginia and this year for the first time will focus on Tree Identification. This will be a precursor to forest health to include an update on invasive plants and insects and a short field trip after lunch.
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Subject: Workshop
Description: Panel discussions with forest farmers and herb buyers will share valuable experience, advice and will offer valuable technical training sessions to all skill levels. Topics will include herb cultivation and propagation techniques, plant conservation, certification, value added production and more. Vendors are encouraged to attend.
Subject: Workshop
Description: Project Learning Tree (PLT) is an interdisciplinary environmental education program designed for educators of ANY background.
Subject: Tour
Description: Why not grab your family and friends and come explore the new and exciting additions to the garden. Be sure to check out the Model Train Garden running from 10 am until noon! Ambassadors will be in the garden to welcome you and answer your gardening questions
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Subject: Workshop
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Description: This one-day workshop follows up on the August 2016 Appalachian Wood Energy Innovations Conference in Asheville, NC. Great outcomes and a to-do list resulted from that conference and many of them will be covered in this workshop.
Anyone in academic, industry and forestry sectors with an interest in energy from wood. Additionally organizations, public and private, will be tapped as speakers. Networking among these participants will benefit one and all. CFE contact hours will be available for professional foresters.
Subject: Webinar
Description: This webinar will cover the basics of bumble bee ecology and conservation. Participants will learn the status of North America’s nearly 50 species of bumble bees, the threats they face, and the role that important habitat features and land management play in supporting robust bumble bee communities. Participants will also learn basic identification skills as well as the resources available for a more in depth investigation.
Subject: Workshop
Description: The Goose Creek watershed represents a national model for land conservation. Join Mike Kane, of the Piedmont Environmental Council, and Tom Turner, of the John Marshall Soil and Water Conservation District, for a free dinner and review of conservation successes and challenges in the watershed, including an overview of conservation programs that are available to assist landowners.
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Subject: Webinar
Description: Storms happen and the urban forest responds accordingly to steps taken beforehand to create storm-response resilience. Recovery from storms also happens and the success is predictable based on how well a community prepares in advance to respond.
Subject: Workshop
Description: Cogongrass is a fast-growing, rapidly-spreading perennial grass that continues to be an invasive species of great concern in Florida. This noxious weed disrupts ecosystems, decreases property values, and creates increased risk for fires. Join us to learn the latest strategies for control.
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Subject: Workshop
Description: W.I.S.E. provides continuing education for Master Naturalists, Master Gardeners, and other advocates promoting native wildlife and the control of invasive species in Florida.
Subject: Workshop
Description: Meet the experts and get the forestry and wildlife answers you've been looking for! Join us for a morning workshop and afternoon field tour of the Nokuse Plantation to learn about increasing the value and enjoyment of your woodlands.
Featured topics include: forestry management options, growing healthier trees, planting native species, wildlife habitat improvement, management options such as microchipping and thinning for biomass, and an overview of conservation easements. Speakers include the American Forest Foundation, Florida Wildlife Federation, Florida Forest Service, and Enviva Pellets.
Subject: Tour
Description: Field tour of the hops yard. Research presentations on cultural practices, pests and disease. Registration is $10 and includes lunch.
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Description: In awareness of the continual massive loss of property by African Americans in rural communities due to complicated legal hurdles, FAMU Cooperative Extension Program office has created the Family Heir Property Program Workshop Series. The platform is designed to show what happens to property that has been granted to either children or relatives of the original owners through heirship or by a will.
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Subject: Workshop
Description: As Spring comes into the Wiregrass Region, your plants, shrubs and trees will once again come under attack from diseases and insects. Be ready to recognize the warning signs and know how to prevent and manage impacts from costly diseases and insects. This three hour workshop will focus on the native diseases and insects currently affecting landscape and urban forestry, as well as potential new invasive threats. Please contact the Dale County Extension Office at (334) 774-2329 to register for this program.
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Description: Tree Risk Assessment Qualification (TRAQ) program provides an opportunity for professionals in the arboriculture industry to expand their knowledge through education and training in the fundamentals of tree risk assessment. This qualification promotes the safety of people and property by providing a standardized and systematic process for assessing tree risk. The results of a tree risk assessment can provide tree owners and risk managers with the information to make informed decisions to enhance tree benefits, health, and longevity. Course Content: Tree Biology and Mechanics Tree Inspection and Assessment Data Analysis and Risk Categorization Risk Reporting TRAQ Exam
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Subject: Webinar
Description: Herbicides are an important tool in both forest and wildlife management in the south and particularly in southern pine management. The common practice of heavy chemical site prep prescriptions in forest management may not be appropriate in stands where restoration and wildlife habitat is the objective. The webinar will address herbicide uses in longleaf restoration with a focus on minimizing the impact herbicides have on a healthy and diverse groundcover, including the fine fuels and plants that are beneficial to bobwhite quail, whitetail deer and the wild turkey.
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Description: Cost is $25
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Pesticide Applicator Training