TREE CARE PRESENTATION TOPICS by Guy Meilleur, historictreecare@gmail.com VETREE.eu: Valuing and Managing Veteran Trees and VETCertification: NEW! Diagnosing with Detective Dendro and Telling the Tale, Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 Decay, Risk, and Standard Flare Care: Using the ANSI Tree Inspection Standard ANSI A300 Root Management Standard: How can it be Improved? Report Writing for Arborists: KISS and Tell the Story, in your own Words Restoration Pruning: After the Storm, Head for Better Form Regenerating Hollow Trees for Life via the International Pruning Standards Detective Dendro and the Wild Life: Managing Arboreal Habitat Appraisal and Testimony: Money Grows IN Trees! Utility Line Clearance for Commercial Arborists: Put NERC to Work Battling Bolts from the Blue: Repairing and Preventing Lightning Damage Positive Pole Pruning: Tools and Techniques for Reaching Beyond the Limits Putin’s Oak, and More: From Russia with Tree Love BCMA, ISA’s Board -Certified Master Arborist: The Pinnacle of the Profession? Global Arboriculture: Around the Tree Care World in 70 Days Indoor presentations range from 30 to 150 minutes Outdoor workshops range from 4 hours to 2 days. Workshops are typically facilitated with the help of local BCMAs and other experts. We customize workshops based on the audience, learning objectives and other specific needs. In addition to discount packages (ask about our threefer!), we can provide: 1. Ready-to-use digital handouts 2. Articles in advance and as a followup, including CEU tests. 3. T rench coat, fedora, and audio for presentations by Mike O’Ryza, ArborEye. 4. Safety training for climbers: redirects, limbwalking, and proper tool usage. 5. Practice using the TRAQ form, and templates for writing specifications. Bio/Intro: Guy Meilleur (May- er’) is an ISA Board -Certified Master Arborist, and author of 34 episodes in ISA’s Detective Dendro series. He is a former curator and lecturer at NC State University, Instructor at Duke University, Staff Arborist at the University of North Carolina. Guy chaired the ANSI A300 committee that created the standard for tree inspection and root management, and serves as a US contact for the Veteran Tree Network and the Ancient Tree Forum. Historic Tree Care values and manages veteran trees. In addition to community education, services include managing trees with flare care, soil building, installing lightning and support systems, and pruning to improve tree health, stability, and longevity.
VETree: Valuing and Managing Veteran Trees, and VETCertification There’s a world of difference between the US and older cultures when it comes to valuing older trees. The European Union funded Vetree.eu, a course on time-tested strategies for valuing and managing veteran trees. VETree identifies strengths and weaknesses, response growth and retrenchment, assets and liabilities. Basic concepts include: Ecological contributions of the tree and its associates; Cultural connections to regions, people, and history; Compartmentalization and Response Growth; M aking ‘defects’ stronger than ever ; Common treatments in Europe and Asia, and complying with international tree care standards. NEW! Certification for Veteran Tree Consultants and Practitioners released: VETCert.eu. We’ll review and apply the VETCert criteria, and the best of VETree’s e -learning tools, video, and graphics that were presented during the three-day training. The VETree approach advances tree risk assessment, so we incorporate the use of the TRAQ form in a sample activity. Specifying Care for the Biggest Oak in Europe, Arborist News , October, 2016 http://www.historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/DD-Eloquent-Elephant- 1610.pdf http://www.historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Valuing-Vets-AA- Aug-Sep-2014.pdf Dr. Kevin Smith, Pathologist for the US Forest Service: “Your protocol for scientific management and pruning of older trees has really come together.” Presented at ISA-Europe in 2014 and PAA-Mississippi and Virginia in 2015
Diagnosing with Detective Dendro, and Telling the Tale Detective Dendro is a popular feature of ISA’s Arborist News magazine. I had the pleasure of writing 34 episodes. This series started as a traditional mystery format applied to “fact sheets” with a tight focus on individual tree problems. Over time, Dendro and Codit have evolved into multidimensional characters with a worldly command of tree problem and solutions. They also get lucky sometimes. Systematic diagnosis is too serious to be taken seriously! The problem typically comes to Dendro from a tree owner. After a detailed inspection, he mulls over various hypotheses. False clues are ‘red herrings’ that confuse Codit, and threaten to throw Dendro off the scent. Some questions are basic, and some advanced. The solution leads to specified arboricultural treatments. Some are straightforward prescriptions, others more complex. Something of interest is aimed at all levels of education and experience. Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 describe the development of 34 different episodes, from brainstorming and editing to monitoring the trees’ progress after publication. Everyone wants to know what makes trees tick! Following diagnostic deductions and inductions can expand our daily dealings with trees. Detective Dendro and the Seven Scenarios is an outdoor field training, with a 50-question test similar to ISA’s Board -Certified Master Arborist exam. Presented at: Morris Arboretum, Philadelphia PA “I always enjoyed the humor and expertise present in the stories, but today’s workshop furthered my appreciation of arboriculture.” And Tree Diagnosis and Risk Management, ISA International Pre-Conference Academy, St. Louis MO, July 27, 2008 “Guy kept us moving through eight stations, real trees with real challenges.”
Decay, Risk, and Standard Flare Care: Where the Tree Joins the Earth The trunk flare is a very accessible, but rarely managed, part of the tree. Buttresses flare out. Sinuses curl in. Bark gets included. Things happen. Burls and bulges and furrows and holes and lesions can baffle even the seasoned pros. ANSI A300 Part 8 is the place to go for guidance on inspecting the trunk, flare, and roots. Diagnoses and treatments for decay all involve cleaning, to see and gather fundamental facts from the tree. Standard flare care detection work is demonstrated with tricks from orchardists and gardeners and grafters. Now’s the time to touch and treat the tree’s foundation! A systematic approach to tree risk management is taken from the 2006 Arborist News CEU article. Delivered at TCI Expo in 2005 and 2009, and ISA-Michigan in 2010. BCMA Joel Koci: “So fascinating to see how trees adapt and strengthen over time. Your demonstration of cleaning the flare and diagnosing conditions was excellent.”
Revising ANSI A300 Part 8: How Can We Improve Root Management? 2013: After 3 separate efforts by the A300 group, the Root Management Standard is published. As chair of the subgroup, I was very, very happy to see this information go public! 2018: The revision of Part 8 ha s begun, right on ANSI’s 5 - year schedule. We’ll look at ways the standard has been used to take better care of trees. We’re also looking for your ideas on how it can work better for you! When roots girdle stems, bad thing s happen. We’ll look at the ins and outs of pruning stem - girdling roots. Dozens of case studies, pictures, video and other documentation from arborists around the country will be included. Learn the process from excavation to monitoring, the tools needed and how to use them, and a protocol for deciding which roots to cut and how and where and when to cut them. By practicing this radical tree surgery, we can deliver a more sustainable urban forest, instead of watching trees decline before their time. Excerpts from the ANSI A300 Root Management Standard will be used to inform responses to root damage, and invigorate future growth. The original article can be seen at http://www.tcia.org/PDFs/TCI_Mag_July_07.pdf and the peer-reviewed version is http://www.historictreecare.com/wp-ontent/uploads/2012/05/LBG-III-Managing-Stem- Girdling-Roots1.doc.pdf. Presented at Minnesota ISA chapter, 2007, the Landscape Below Ground III symposium, 2009, and 150 minutes’ worth at ISA -Ontario, 2012, “Good job getting dirty and taking charge of the bottom half of the tree.” “Revealing!”
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