Upcoming Events

Natural Area Management Services Webinar Series

Grow Your Business by Providing Natural Area Management Services to Small-Acreage Clients

AGENDA

Dates & Times:

Thursday evenings from 7:00 – 8:30 PM, October 22, 29, November 5, and 12

Registration Fee: $35

If you pay online, a link to Zoom will be included in confirmation Email that you will receive. PLEASE retain this Email for the event!

If you choose to pay by check, the link to Zoom will be sent after payment is received.

Registration fee includes Woodland Health Practices Handbook, Woodland Health Assessment Checklist and Management Actions, and two Woody Plant Identification Guides (Common Native Trees of Virginia Identification Guide and Common Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of Virginia Identification Guide)

Note: For an additional $20 ($55.00 total) participants can also receive a copy of the original Woods in Your Backyard book (regular cost $29 + shipping). Choose this option at registration.

Description:

Are you a Green Industry professional interested in expanding the suite of services offered to your clients to include creating and enhancing natural areas? If so, then this four-part webinar series is for you!

The Woods in Your Backyard partnership created a program for Green Industry professionals to gain knowledge and skills useful for providing additional services to clientele. Small scale natural area management services might include wildlife habitat enhancement, forestry practices such as chose tree management, tree planting, and invasive control.

A resource manual and specialized checklist tool have been developed to complement the training to help Green Industry professionals determine which enhancement practices are suitable for a given property/site. Join us for this 4-part webinar series to increase your knowledge base, add skills, gain an edge over the competition, and grow your business with additional services to offer your clients.

Credits available for this event are:

International Society of Arboriculture (ISA)
Society of American Foresters (SAF)
Landscape Contractors Association (MD, VA, and DC)
Virginia Certified Horticulturalist (from VNLA)
Maryland Tree Experts (LTE)
Chesapeake Landscape Professionals (CBLP)

Event date	10-22-2020 7:00 pm
Event End Date	11-05-2020 8:30 pm
Registration Start Date	08-19-2020 8:00 am
Capacity	Unlimited
Cut off date	11-05-2020 9:00 pm
Individual Price	$35.00

Board of Directors Meeting

Event date	11-12-2020 10:00 am
Event End Date	11-12-2020 3:00 pm
Capacity	Unlimited

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Did You Know:

Most tree roots are in the top 12 inches of soil.
Most trees do not have a tap root.
Trees are the largest living organisms on earth: some coastal redwoods are more than 360 feet tall.
A mature tree removes almost 70 times more pollution than a newly planted tree.
A birdhouse hung on a young tree branch, does not move up the tree as the tree grows.
Well-maintained trees and shrubs can increase property value by up to 14%.
Trees properly placed around buildings can reduce air conditioning needs by 30 percent and save 20-50 percent in heating energy.
Every state has an official State Tree. Virginia adopted the flowering dogwood Cornaceae Cornus floridaas the State Tree on February 24, 1956. The dogwood is well distributed throughout the...
One large tree can provide a supply of oxygen for two people.
In one day, one large tree can lift up to 100 gallons of water out of the ground and discharge it into the air.
Trees are some of the oldest living organisms on earth: some bristle-cone pines are thought to be more than 5000 years old.