MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2018
| 7:00 | 11th Annual Britton Fund Ride |
| 7:00 | Pre-Conference Field Day & Tree Planting at Galvin Park |
| 10:00 | TREE Fund Golf Outing at Bennett Valley Golf Club |
| 3:00 | Registration Opens |
| 5:30 | Opening Ceremony & Reception with Exhibitors |
TUESDAY APRIL 24, 2018
| 7:00 | Registration Open, Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors |
| 8:00 | Welcome, President Rick Gessner |
| 8:30 | Keynote – Lynda Mapes, The Seattle Times – Witness Tree: Seasons of Change with a Century – Old Oak |
| 9:35 | James Scheid, CALFIRE – The Catastrophic Fires of 2017: The Catastrophic Fires of 2017: Overview and Lessons Learned |
| 10:05 | Morning Stretch with Exhibitors |
| 10:30 | Dr. Rick Standiford, UC Berkeley (Emeritus) – Overview and status of California’s forest resources. |
| 11:30 | Awards Luncheon |
| 12:45 | Dr. Greg McPherson, USDA Forest Service – From Sun Flecks to a Thousand Points of Shade: Tracing Research on Eco-services Provided by Trees |
| 1:35 | Dr. Matt Ritter, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo – Ecology of California’s 21 native oak species |
| 2:20 | Afternoon Stretch with Exhibitors |
| 2:45 | Dr. Drew Zwart, Bartlett Tree Research Lab– Trees in a changing climate |
| 3:35 | Dr. Jim Clark, HortScience Inc. – The most important lessons I have learned about mature tree management |
| 4:25 | Dr. Erica Spotswood, SF Estuary Institute – “Re-Oaking” the Silicon Valley |
| 5:15 | Happy Hour with Outdoor Exhibits |
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2018
| Soil & Water Management | Urban Forestry | Utility Forestry | ||
| 8:00 | David Kelley, Consultant, Effect of intense fire on soil and the geomorphology of Bay Area soils | Michael-Gerold Neumann, City of Roseville – Planting of young oak trees: mitigation and restoration practices | Dr. Chris Halle and Dr. Claudia Luke, Sonoma State – The Nature!Tech Collaborative: The tale of an industry and academic partnership, and the establishment of the Western United States Vegetation Management Monitoring Network | |
| 8:50 | Dr. Igor Lacan, UCCE – Identifying and mitigating common soil problems | Tina McKeand, Davey Resource Group – Green & Gray: Strategies for Growing Canopy in Ultra-Urban Sites | John Daubenspeck, Davey Resource Group – Rethinking safety within utility vegetation management | |
| 9:45 | Morning Stretch with Exhibitors | |||
| 10:15 | Dr. Larry Costello, Oracle Oak, LLC – Estimating irrigation water needs of trees | Dr. Tom Smiley, Bartlett Tree Research Lab – Soil under pavement: How to get the most tree with a limited soil area | Lance Dye, Salt River Project – Utility appropriate tree plantings and City of Phoenix partnership | |
| 11:05 | Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott, Washington State University Woody mulch? Or wouldn’t he? | Walter Passmore, City of Palo Alto and Elise Willis, Canopy – Trees and Infrastructure: minimizing conflicts | James Zwack, Davey Institute – EAB and pest management strategies | |
| 12:00 | Lunch with Exhibitors | |||
| Pest Management | Consulting | |||
| 1:15 | Dr. Mark Hoddle, UC Riverside – Palmageddon: The Wasting of California’s Palms by the South American Palm Weevil | James MacNair, Consulting Arborist- Appraising fire damaged trees | ||
| 2:05 | Dr. Ted Swiecki, Phytosphere Consulting – What arborists need to know about Phytophthora and why | Denice Britton, CalTLC, Inc. – Assessing fire damage and managing fire damaged trees | ||
| 2:50 | Afternoon Stretch | |||
| 3:10 | Dr. Steve Seybold, US Forest Service – Bark beetle ecology and management | Dr. Tom Smiley, Bartlett Tree Research – Testing TRAQ | ||
| 4:10 | Dr. Jim Downer, UCCE – Cell phone diagnostics | Dan Staley, ArborDrone – Using drones in arboriculture | ||
| 6:00 | Annual Banquet & Silent Auction | |||
THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2018
| Commercial | Arboriculture | |
| 7:00 | Women in Arboriculture Breakfast (Ticketed event) | |
| 8:30 | Cyrus Deveres, APlus Tree – Fostering Tree Care Leadership | Chris Buck, City of San Francisco – The 5 biggest arboriculture challenges in San Francisco |
| 9:20 | Nick Araya, TreeCareLA, Modern and traditional tree support techniques to retain old urban growth | |
| 10:05 | Morning Stretch | |
| 10:20 | Chad Dykstra, Foothill Tree – What Customer Services means to your business | Jeff Reimer, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo – Status and trends in municipal urban forestry programs in California |
| 11:10 | Gary McIver, CalOSHA – Why CalOSHA is important to our industry | Dave Rizzo, UC Davis – Management of oak root fungus in urban settings |
| 12:00 | ALOHA! – SEE YOU IN THE ISLANDS | |
| 1:00 | OPTIONAL TOUR and FIELD WORKSHOP at Santa Rosa Community College (ticketed event)
Denice Britton, CalTLC, Inc. – An Arborist’s retrospective on native oaks in a landscape setting David Kelley, Consultant – Assessment and correction of problematic soils Dan Staley, ArborDrone – Demonstration on use of drone technology in a field setting Torrey Young, Dryad, LLC – Managing heritage oaks through pruning, cabling/bracing/propping |
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CONTINUING EDUCATION HOURS APPLIED TO THIS PROGRAM:
OPTIONAL MONDAY Preconference Field Day: 6.0 CTM / BCMA -P
Tuesday – 6.75 CTM 5.0 – BCMA -M / 1.0 BCMA -P / .75 BCMA-S
Wednesday – 7.0 CTMU
Soil and Water: 2.75 BCMA -S / .75 BCMA–P
Urban Forestry: 3.5 BCMA–M Utility Forestry: 2.75 BCMA–P/ .75 BCMA–M
Pest Management*: 3.5 BCMA-S
Consulting: 3.5 BCMA-M
Thursday – 3.0 CTM
Commercial: 2.25 BCMA-M / .75 BCMA-P
Arboriculture: 3.0 BCMA -M
OPTIONAL – THURSDAY
WIA breakfast – 1.0 CTM /BCMA -M
Tour/Field Workshop: – 3.0 CTM – 1.5 BCMA-S /.75 BCMA-M / .75 BCMA-P
*DPR hours have been applied for
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