Information and registration form for 2013 NE Community Forestry Workshop

1. Focuses on plant selection, your options to accept or reject trees and how to apply best planting practices to a
range of trees, shrubs and situations. The goal of this workshop is to better ensure mature and healthy com-
munity forests through thoughtful, pragmatic and fiscally sustainable practices.
 50:50 Learning! Half of the day in the classroom, half of the day in “the field” demonstrating and practicing.
 Setting a higher “bar” for tree health:
 Using the ANSI Z-60.1 and MnDOT standards for nursery stock.
 How provenance, seed zone and stock testing, yields better trees for Minnesota landscapes.
 Demonstrations and Exercises (Outdoors and hands-on!):
 Accepting or Rejecting Trees: Recognizing plant material quality.
 Correcting of nursery stock problems: roots buried in containers or soil balls, pot-bound plants.
 Best planting practices for all nursery stock types
 The community gravel-bed option.
 Mulching, watering, staking and winter protection.
The Cloquet Forestry Center facilities are set within two
of the most intensely managed, boreal forests in the upper mid-west region of the U.S. Click here for a virtual
tour or go to the facilities homepage.
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2. Indoors:
7:40-8 AM– CHECK-IN & Refreshments
8-9 AM –What does a healthy tree look like? Where does it come from?
 ANSI Standards for Nursery Stock.
 MnDOT quality standards
Where do healthy trees come from?
 Provenance, seed zone and stock testing.
9-10 AM.- Costs and Benefits: Nursery stock types and planting options.
10:00-10:15 AM- Break,: Material and sample review, explore displays and introduced web based resources.
10:15-11:15 AM- Preparing and Planting Trees and Shrubs:
 Adjusting root depths.
 Correcting root problems.
 Planting hole “architecture”.
 Aftercare.
Outdoors:
11:15-12:15 PM- The Gravel-bed Option: A new way of reforesting your community?
 Installation of gravel-bed overview: siting, materials, media and irrigation.
 Species performance/Root health.
 Limitations and issues.
 Guided installation and harvest of a g.b. trees.
12:15-1:00 PM- Lunch with Friends and Peers (provided), Enjoy Exhibits!
1:00-3:00 PM- Best Planting Practices. YOU practice!
 Primary stock types (gravel-bed, bareroot, B & B, various containerized stock.
 Adjusting and Preparing Trees: Ball and burlap and pot-bound nursery stock.
 Planting: Planting hole architecture, baskets, strings, burlap, mulch, water and stake as needed!
Getting There:
Cloquet Forestry Center is located
at:
175 University Road
Cloquet, MN 55720
U of M, N.E. Forestry Workshop
ATTN: Sean Peterson The center is 19 miles from Du-
luth and 132 miles from the Twin
1530 Cleveland Ave. N. Cities. For Google Maps driving
St. Paul, MN. 55108 directions click here.
Yes, I’ve Included Payment of $60, Check or Purchase Order to: University of Minnesota
Yes, I’m an I.S.A. Certified Arborest seeking c.e.u.’s. (not required to attend).
Registrant Name:
Employer (if employed as Tree Inspector):
Minnesota Tree Inspector Number (if for recertification)
Mailing Address:
Phone: Email Address: