Advanced Master Gardener

Unit 8 Identifying Tree Problems

Objectives:

Be able to identify tree problems

Understanding Trees

1. Conducting tree inventories
2. Tour of community – discussion of:

• Social,
• Technical, and
• Management issues in Urban Forestry

Becoming an Advanced Master Gardener Tree Steward

Suggested Readings

These will be added.  A complete list of the readings is available in the required text, "Advanced Master Gardener - Tree Steward Handbook,"  Virginia Cooperative Extension.  The text is available from the Office of Consumer Horticulture of the Horticulture Department of Virginia Tech.

Additional useful materials

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Landscape Tree Inventory The Basis of Sound Management, Eric Wiseman, Ph.D. Department of Forestry Virginia Tech(0324) 304 Cheatham Hall Blacksburg, VA 24061 United States E-mail: pwiseman@vt.edu This is an Adobe Acrobat File and will require the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.

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