2019 Texas Tree Conference Presentations
Welcome to presentations page for the
39th Texas Tree Conference, Academy, Trade Show and Tree Schools
Waco Convention Center
September 25-27, 2019
Thank you for attending the Conference! See you next year – September 23-25, 2020
Below are the links to the presentations given at the Texas Tree Conference and Texas Tree Schools
TRACK | Session Name and Link | Presenter |
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General Session | Welcome | ISAT President, Emily King |
Ed Gilman Arboriculture Video Series | Dr. Edward Gilman, Trainer and Consultant, Wood Architecture, Jacksonville, Florida | |
Looking Forward at Community Forestry | Dr. Jason Gordon, Assistant Professor, University of Georgia, Athens | |
Pollinator/Wildlife Corridors in Utility ROW Management | Barbara Willey, Founder & Director of Monarch Gateway, Sugar Land, Texas |
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Municipal Track | EAB- Lessons Learned Through Experience | Ralph Sievert, Director of Forestry, City of Minneapolis, Minnesota |
The Role of Community Forestry in Urban Metabolism | Dr. Jason Gordon, Assistant Professor of Urban and Community Forestry, University of Georgia, Athens |
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#HealthyTreesHealthyLives | Paul Johnson, Urban Program Leader, Texas A&M Forest Service, Austin | |
Radial Growth Ring Analysis of Urban Trees | Dr. Eric North, Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln | |
How America's Largest City Manages Trees | Richard Leon, Urban Forest Manager, City of Jacksonville, Florida | |
“We Don’t Need a Plan - We Have Google Earth” | Steve Grantham, Executive Director, Up With Trees, Tulsa, Oklahoma | |
The City of Dallas Has an Urban Forestry Master Plan! How They Got There and What’s Next | Matt Grubisich, Director of Operations, Texas Trees, Dallas |
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Make Partnerships Worth Your While | April Rose, Urban Forestry Health Coordinator, City of Austin, Texas |
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Commercial Track | Assessing and Mitigating Urban Soils | Dr. Drew Zwart, Plant Pathologist/Physiologist, Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories, San Rafael, California |
Legal Hot Spots for Arborists | Skip Kincaid, Executive Director of the Southern Chapter of ISA, St. Louis, Missouri |
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Canker Diseases of Landscape Trees | Marion Murray, IPM Project Manager, Utah State University, Logan |
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Wildfire Risk Assessment For the Arborist | Kari Hines, Firewise Coordinator, Texas A&M Forest Service, Bastrop | |
Working Effectively Across Generations | Dr. Rob Konopaske, Principal, ME360 LLC, and Director of the Institute for Global Business at the McCoy College of Business at Texas State University | |
Moving Giant Trees - Texas Style! | David Marks, Owner, Environmental Design, Tomball, Texas |
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How Trees Eat | David Vaughan, Owner, ArborVaughan Consult, LLC, San Antonio, Texas |
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Utility Track | Trees Power Lines and Fires in California | Stephen Cieslewicz, UVM Consultant, Sebastopol, California |
Danger > Hazard > Risk - A Review of Terminology used by Utilities to Characterize the Threat from Trees | Geoff Kempter, Technical Services Manager, Asplundh, Grand Rapids, Michigan |
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Are You a Boss Or a Leader? | Randall Miller, Director of Research and Development, CNUC, Des Moines, Iowa |
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Lessons and Experiences Gained During Thirty Years of Arboriculture and Forestry in Colombia | Carlos Llanos, Asesorias Forestales, Bogota, Colombia & Mark Duff, Duff Consulting, San Antonio, Texas |
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Data Analytics for Vegetation Management | Peter Stoltman, Technical Specialist, Oncor Electric Delivery, Fort Worth, Texas |
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Training the Next Utility Vegetation Management Leaders | Steve White, Area Manager, Davey Resource Group, Manchaca, Texas | |
Advances in UVM Safety and Technology | Phillip Kelley, Safety Team Leader, Wright Tree Service, San Juan, Washington | |
Texas Tree Schools - English | Tree Biology | Mike Sills, Texas A&M Forest Service, Dallas, Texas |
Texas Tree Schools - Spanish | Lecciones Aprendidas durante 30 años de Arboricultura | Instructors are Carlos Llanos, Forester, Asesorias Forestales, Bogota, Colombia |
Consideraciones durante el Trabajo y Cuidado de Árboles | Bill Green, Forester, Texas A&M Forest Service | |
La Poda Adecuada de Árboles | Mark Duff, Principal, Mark Duff Consulting | |
Marchitamiento de Encino | Mark Duff, Principal, Mark Duff Consulting | |
Academy | Academy Three: An overview of the newly published ISA Utility Specialist Certification Study Guide – presented by its two authors | Geoffrey Kempter, Technical Services Manager, Asplundh Tree Experts |