Summer 2017

Canopy Coverage The Official Newsletter of Mid Atlantic Chapter of The International Society of Arboriculture Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia and District of Columbia

2017 MAC-ISA Annual Meeting Oct 1st- Oct 2nd Mark your calendar for ITCC Clean-Up Day, the 39th MAC-ISA Annual June 13th Meeting, October 1-2, n the ITCC cleanup day $30,500 Sheraton Virginia Beach Oworth of work was donated to the Oceanfront Hotel U.S. National Arboretum to prepare the trees for the international climbers! The chapter ITCC co-chairs Rob Springer and Keith Kanzler did a great job organizing the day and Arboretum staff Sue Greeley and Chrissy Moore provided excellent support and very needed ice and water. A big Thank you to the following companies and individuals for their help in preparing the trees at the National ince we are hosting the ISA Arboretum for the International Tree Sconference in July, we will be Climbing Championship: A & A Tree having a one day indoor educational Experts – Morgan Lisle; Advanced meeting without a trade show on Arboriculture – Chris Coates, William Monday October 2nd. The Tree Fund Rontzahn; Arbor Artist – Trenton events (golf & motorcycle ride) will be Thomas; Arbor Care – James Earhart, held on Sunday, October 1st, along Mike Blashford, Brian Campbell; with a welcome reception and chapter Bartlett Tree Experts – Sasha awards that evening. Krywonos, Sina Hudson, Kevin Dowd, • Pre-conference events, MAC-ISA Miguel Rubio, Francis Diaz, Tony Awards, Welcome Reception on Sweeney, Rob Springer; Dominion Sunday, October 1st Energy – Luke McCall; Excel Tree • Indoor Sessions, silent auction Expert Co. – Mike Cotter; Growing and ISA Gold Leaf Awards at the Earth Tree Care – Jim Martin, Justin Sheraton, Monday, October 2nd Courtney; Loudoun County – Chris • See inside pages 10-11 for a full Kenney; Mead Tree and Turf - Steve Special Thanks to our program and registration form Castrogiovanni; Reston Associaton Annual Meeting Sponsors • Don’t delay register early to get the – Keith Kanzler, Jason Perry, Siavush best price Baluch, Zack Hancuff; Root Down Tree Aerial Solutions • Network, Learn, Have Fun, Re- Management – Matt Lee; RSF Tree Davey Tree Experts energize Care – Randy Fackler, Chaz Fackler; Dominion Energy • Purchase supplies and equipment treelife – Flint Anderson. Lewis Tree and so much more Enjoy the pictures of the cleanup Mid-Atlantic Stihl • Hope to see you in Virginia Beach day on this and the next page, courtesy PennLine this fall! of Chrissy Moore and Sue Greeley. Sherrilltree 2017 Day of Safety in Cumberland, MD

he MAC-ISA Day of Safety took place ​Ton June 9th at Allegany College in Cumberland MD. We scheduled it for a Friday this year as requested and it was a big success. A big Thank You to our sponsors, speakers, volunteers and all the attendees. The event had a great turnout and amazing weather! Over 85 people registered (including speakers) representing over 40 different Day of Safety pictures companies/organizations and 4 states. courtesy of Candance Teates As always, the presentations were greatly appreciated and well received. Thank you again for your continued support. Stay safe. Special thanks to our speakers: Joey Marrow, Chris Hall, Don Blair, Scott Diffenderfer, Stephen Bouch, Dora Parks, Curtis Fasick and Tom Taylor. Also a “Thank You” to the Day of Safety Committee Members; Gary Mallow, Paul Eriksson, Don Blair, Becky Wilson and Candance Teates. Much appreciation to our DOS volunteer extraordinaire and Below more pictures of the ITCC cleanup day at the U.S. National Arboretum. Trees are MAC-ISA board member, Doug Petersen, ready for the international competitors! for all of his continued support.

Special Thanks to our Day of Safety Sponsors

Event Sponsors: Cumberland Shade Tree Commission, Potomac Edison/A FirstEnergy Company, Zanfel Host Sponsor: Allegany College Speaker Sponsors: Antietam Tree Service, Asplundh Blair’s Arborist Equipment Fairfax County Park Authority, Potomac Edison / A FirstEnergy Company, MD Miss Utility, Vermeer Mid-Atlantic

MAC-ISA Canopy Coverage 2 Summer 2017 Table of Contents MAC-ISA Annual Meeting ������������������1 Canopy Coverage A publication of the ITCC Thanks...... 1 Mid-Atlantic Chapter International Society of Arboriculture 2017 Day of Safety...... 2 PO Box 1200, Haymarket, VA 20168 President’s Message...... 5 Phone: 703-753-0499 • Fax: 703-894-4994 E-mail: [email protected] • Website: http://www.mac-isa.org Calendar of Events...... 5 Newsletter Committee Certification and TRAQ News ������������6 Ineke Dickman, Nancy Herwig, Donna Marie Foster, Todd Hagadone, Joe Sullivan MAC-ISA awards...... 7 Submissions We welcome submissions from our readers. Deadlines for receipt are January 10, April 10, July Forest Pest Update...... 8,9 10 and October 10. Please send your submissions via e-mail to [email protected] or via regular mail to our main office. All contributions are subject to editing for clarity and length. MAC-ISA Annual Meeting...... 10,11 We especially encourage you to send: Letters to the editor • Notices of professional achievements of our members Academic News...... 12 & 16 • Educational events for our calendar • Synopsis of research or current practices • MAC-ISA Scholarships...... 13 Articles on arboriculture, management and other topics of interest to our readers • Suggestions for regular features TREE Fund, International...... 14,15 Please call Nancy Herwig (703-753-0499) to discuss potential submissions in advance. Feature Articles...... 18 Publication Schedule Canopy Coverage is published 4 times a year. Member News, International...... 19 Printed on recycled paper by Piedmont Press Advertising Sales Ineke Dickman, MAC-ISA Communications Phone: 703-753-0499 Summer 2017 Advertisers E-mail: [email protected] American Arborist Supplies...... 6 Please contact Ineke Dickman about ad sizes and rates in Canopy Coverage. Arborjet...... 9 Executive Committee ArborSystems...... 16 Robert Corletta, President Asplundh...... 17 Lauren McCallister, Vice President Paul Martin, Treasurer CNUC...... 13 Joshua Franz, Secretary Steve Genua, Council of Component Representative Fanno Saw Works...... 15 Jay Banks: Professional Development Mauget...... 6 Directors Nelson Tree Service...... 15 Jason Heizer, Term 2017 (VA) Jeanne Kavinski, Term 2018 (MD) TCIA...... 4 Doug Petersen, TREE Fund Liaison Jessica Sanders, Term 2018 (DC) U1Source...... 7 Shawn Walker, Term 2018 (WV) Vermeer Mid-Atlantic...... 20 Samantha Wangsgard, Term 2017 (VA) Eric Wiseman, Term 2018 (VA) Toni Woods, Term 2017 (VA) Volunteers Wanted! Other Services MAC-ISA Needs YOU! Certification Liaison: Stan Wageman Publications Coordinator: Kevin Sigmon • Annual Meeting Event Day Volunteers • Silent Auction Volunteers Staff • Award Committee Members Executive Director: Nancy Herwig • Scholarship Committee Members Administrative Assistant: Candance Teates Communications Manager: Ineke Dickman Volunteer now by calling the office at 703-753- Our Mission 0499 or email [email protected] “To promote a culture of safety while fostering education and research that supports Thanks, we really need your help! the care and benefits of trees.”

Summer 2017 MAC-ISA Canopy Coverage 3 MAC-ISA Canopy Coverage 4 Summer 2017 President’s Message t seems like the dog days of summer is greatly appreciated. Our Board professional team. And the Chapter Ialready, but many special events consists of passionate volunteers that Members are an inspiration. Thank await. MAC-ISA members are help keep our Chapter strong, relevant you. preparing to host multiple high profile and thriving. I encourage all of you to I hope to see you at one of the events this summer. The International vote for our new Board Members at many events this summer and our Tree Climbing Championship with the end of the summer. They help to Annual Meeting this October, in Virginia Arbor Fair and Expo will be at the determine the direction and success of Beach! U.S. National Arboretum and the your Chapter. As always, remember to work safely. ISA Annual International Conference Please be sure to consider your and Trade Show follows at National outstanding Chapter colleagues for Robert Corletta Harbor. These are not to be missed. the many Awards that are available. MAC-ISA President Hopefully, you will have the chance to Explanations of the different categories participate. Many of your colleagues can be found on our new website. will be presenting and an even greater This is my last President’s Message. number will be working as volunteers I am proud to have been afforded the at what promises to be one of the best opportunity to serve in this capacity ISA Conferences ever! Please join us. and be associated with such a I would like to thank our outgoing fantastic organization. My fellow Board Board Members; Jason Heizer, Members have always been a pleasure Samantha Wangsgard and Toni Woods. to serve with. Our staff: Nancy, Their contributions and time of service Candi and Ineke are a dedicated and

Calendar Of Events

July 19-21, Suffolk and Norfolk VA, VNLA September 15, Waynesboro, VA - December 4-6, Charlottesville, VA, MAC-ISA Workshop, Field Day & Summer Tour, Waynesboro Tree Health Care Workshop, Arborist Certification Course, 24 CEUs, http://www.vnla.org www.treesvirginia.org www.mac-isa.org

July 20, Washington, DC, Green Industry September 20, Hampton and Triangle VA, December 7, Charlottesville, VA, ISA Exam, Professional Field Day and Trade Show Baltimore, MD, Saluting Branches, http:// (Arborist, Municipal, Utility and written portion 2017, [email protected] www.salutingbranches.org Tree Worker) http://www.isa-arbor.com/ certification/becomeCertified/ July 28 – July 30, US National Arboretum, October 1, Virginia Beach, VA, MAC-ISA Golf Washington DC, International Tree Climbing Tournament and Ride for Research for 2018 Championship, http://www.itcc-isa.com/ Bonnie Appleton Memorial Fund and MAC- ISA Awards Ceremony, www.mac-isa.org Save the date - April 13-14, Washington, DC, July 28- Aug 2, Gaylord Resort and Conference MAC-ISA Tree Climbing Championship Center, National Harbor, MD, ISA Annual October 2, Virginia Beach, VA, MAC-ISA Meeting, http://www.isa-arbor.com/conference Annual Meeting, www.mac-isa.org Oct. 8-9, Frederick, MD, MAC-ISA Annual Meeting July 30 – Aug. 5, TREE Fund Tour des Trees October 15-20, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, hosted by MAC-ISA, http://stihltourdestrees.org Municipal Forestry Institute, http://www. urban-forestry.com/ August 4, Deadline for Gold Leaf Awards Visit the Green Industry Calendar at http://www.mac-isa.org/services/awards November 1, Silver Spring, MD, Trees Matter, www.mac-isa.org for additional listings registration coming soon August 21-23, Virginia Beach, VA, MAC-ISA Arborist Certification Course, 24 CEUs November 2-4, Columbus, Ohio, TCIA Expo, www.mac-isa.org, www.tcia.org

August 24, Virginia Beach, VA, Certification November 8-10, Gainesville, VA, TRAQ, 14.5 Exam, http://www.isa-arbor.com CEUs, www.mac-isa.org

August 25, Deadline for MAC-ISA Awards, http://www.mac-isa.org/services/awards

Summer 2017 MAC-ISA Canopy Coverage 5 Certification and TRAQ News MAC-ISA Arborist Certification Course

elp Prepare Yourself for the Arborist Certification Test or Hget valuable CEUs. August 21-23, Virginia Beach, VA Dec 4-6, VDOF Offices, Charlottesville, VA 8:00 – 5:30 Instructor: Joe Murray. 24 CEUs $390 for members, $490 Non-Members and $415 for ISA members. Topics include all domains of the ISA Arborist Test, such as Tree Biology, Soil Science, Pruning, Plant Health Care, etc. Ability to register 1, 2 or 3 days may be available, contact the office. Limited Space Available: Call today for a brochure 703- 753-0499 or visit our web site at www.mac-isa.org.

Arborist Certification Tests: August 24, VA Beach, December 7, Charlottesville. For more information: www.isa-arbor.com. To apply on-line or download an application: http://www.isa-arbor.com/certification/ becomeCertified/index.aspx.

TRAQ and Certification Course Scholarships cholarships are available for Virginia Members for STRAQ and the Arborist Certification Course thanks to a grant from the Virginia Department of Forestry Urban and Community Forestry Grant Program. Contact exdirector@ macisa.org. Upcoming TRAQ Class BEST SOU AC-ISA’s last TRAQ course of the year is scheduled UR RC Mfor November 8-10 in Gainesville, VA. The course will YO E be taught by Joe Murray. FOR We are planning our schedule for 2018 and will be Arborist Gear & Supplies offering at least 2 courses next year. If you are interested You Can Bet Your Life On It in attending a class next year please contact the office. We try to set the classes close to the demand. MAC-ISA can also coordinate private and semi private courses. Contact [email protected]. • Ropes • Saddles ISA TRAQ Renewal Course • SRT & DDRT Gear • Custom splices hose who took the full Tree Risk Assessment • Rigging TQualification (TRAQ) course when it was first launched • Chainsaw Supplies in 2013 will be reaching their five-year expiration dates • Hand saws within the next year. ISA will begin offering the TRAQ • PPE Renewal Course in October (initial dates yet to be announced). All TRAQ holders who took the full TRAQ Everything you need for the most challenging jobs. course will be required to pass the TRAQ Renewal Course Serving arborists since 1950 to maintain their credentials for another five years. As a Arborist owned & operated reminder, those who transferred their TRACE credential to TRAQ are required to take the full TRAQ course when their current qualification expires to be eligible for future TRAQ Renewal Courses. MAC-ISA will start offering the renewal 800-441-8381 courses early in 2018.

MAC-ISA Canopy Coverage 6 Summer 2017 Other MAC-ISA News MAC-ISA Awards: Call for ISA Gold Leaf Award Goodtreecare.com Nominations, due Nominations due SA Certified Members who are August 25th August 4th IMAC-ISA members can advertise their services for free on our arborist ecognize an associate, coworker, ur chapter tries to present this search site, www.goodtreecare.com. Rand/or friend by taking some Oaward annually to recipients from When consumers call the office this is time to nominate them for MAC-ISA’s each state and Washington, D.C. in our the site we refer them to. It’s easy to prestigious chapter awards. MAC-ISA chapter area. Gold Leaf Awards are register, so if you are not on the site is seeking nominations for the following presented in two categories: now you should take the time to add award categories: • Outstanding Arbor Day Activities your services and service areas to your • Award of Merit • Outstanding Landscape, Beau- contact information. • Volunteer of the Year Award tification, and/or Environmental Consumers can select certified • Lifetime Achievement Award Activities arborists by county and services • Honorary Chapter Membership: Since the MAC-ISA Annual Meeting offered. It’s an easy process. • Field Arborist Award is in Virignia this year, we would like to If you would like to submit a nomina- recognize VA recipients of the award in tion, please visit the Chapter Web site person. Other recipients will be rec- (www.mac-isa.org) to obtain an ap- ognized at local events by a MAC-ISA plication form or contact MAC-ISA at representative. 703-753-0499 or [email protected]. Go to http://www.mac-isa.org/imag- Deadline for submission is August es/MAC_-_ISA_Gold_Leaf_Award_Ap- 25th. plication.pdf for a nomination form and Awards will be presented at our Annual send to [email protected] no later Meeting on Oct. 1st. than Thursday, August 4th, 2017.

Summer 2017 MAC-ISA Canopy Coverage 7 Forest Pest Update Shot Hole Disease the galls-mites and all. The caterpillars year old twigs also leave behind sweet secretions (twig blight). his disease produces circular holes that attract ants. The ants, in return In many Tin the leaf that look like a shotgun for the sweets, protect the cherry gall cases, witches was aimed at the plant. The center azure caterpillars from wasps and other brooms can of the infected spot turns brown and predators. https://nhgardensolutions. form at the drops out. This disease is caused wordpress.com/…/black-cherry-finger canker sites by a combination of the bacterium galls on 1-2 year Xanthomonas pruni and several fungal old branches pathogens, including Cercospora White Pine Blister Rust (caused by species. When spots have a reddish cankers that girdle twigs and buds). edge and a yellow halo, the bacterium hite Pine Blister Rust is lethal American sycamores are much more is present. Once the diseased tissue Wto the Eastern white pine. The susceptible than London planes. drops out, it is difficult to pinpoint the blister rust causes cankers on trunks The fungus that causes sycamore causal organism. Cool, moist spring and lower stems. Cankers will display anthracnose causes cankers on the weather and overhead watering yellow-orange blisters, a sign of 1-2 year old twigs. These cankers encourages this disease when new active spore production. Cut and burn serve as a source of inoculum and leaves are developing. Shake out all small infected twigs and stems. Trunk cause repeated annual infections of the fallen and diseased leaves from cankers may require total tree removal young twigs which result in abnormal the shrub and destroy them. Prune for to protect other pines from this disease. branching, loss of vigor, dieback of better aeration. Wild currants and gooseberries help branches, and increased susceptibility to spread this disease as they are to secondary diseases and insects. Adapted from Rainbow Treecare Diagnostic Bot Canker of Oak alternate hosts of the fungus. They Guide, Photos by Robert L. Anderson, USDA should be eliminated from areas Forest Service, Bugwood.org iplodia corticola (sexual stage supporting White pine. DBotryosphaeria corticola) has White Pine Scale- recently been reported causing tip Sycamore Anthracnose dieback, branch and stem cankers, Pathogen Complex and tree mortality of several native oak ycamore anthracnose is a ince 2005, decline in white pines species (Quercus spp.) in numerous Sdisfiguring disease of sycamore has been observed in western States in the United States. The S and plane trees (Platanus sp.) caused Virginia. Flagging and branch cankers origin of this species is currently by the fungus Apiognomonia veneta. are observed initially, but ultimately unresolved. Other members of the Believed to be these trees, mostly seedlings and fungal family Botryosphaeriaceae are native to the saplings, appear to be dying off common pathogens that cause fruit United States, at a significant rate. Based on rot and dieback of many woody plants it is found research conducted by pathologists throughout the world. throughout and entomologists, a scale insect, Online access: https://www.na.fs. the range of Matsucoccus macrocicatrices fed.us/spfo/pubs/pest_al/diplodia/9040 sycamores. (Canadian pine scale) appears to be DiplodiaCorticolaPA20170414web.pdf . The fungus the primary cause. The fact that this spreads from infected to healthy trees scale insect was previously unknown Finger Galls on Black as spores carried by the wind or rain. to inhabit the southern Appalachians Cherry Although not a fatal disease by itself, is perplexing and raises questions sycamore anthracnose often weakens a regarding the origin and distribution of tree making it more susceptible to other inger galls on the leaves of black the scale. There are also one or more pests and issues. pathogens at work. Caliciopsis pinea Fcherry Signs of damage include dead (Prunus serotina) has been isolated along with a suite of patches along other secondary fungi. In 2012 VDOF are caused by veins of leaves a tiny eriophyid established white pine monitoring sites beginning in western Virginia to be measured mite (Eriophyes in late cerasicrumena.) annually to monitor decline and spring (leaf mortality among different white pine The galls do not blight), then hurt the tree. A size classes. Sites are located in the defoliation following counties where the scale/ blue butterfly beginning in called the cherry pathogen complex has been identified: early summer Bath, Highland, Augusta, and Grayson. gall azure (Celastrina serotina) lays eggs (leaf blight); on these finger galls in May, and when afterwards sunken cankers on 1 – 2 Continued on page 9 they hatch the resulting caterpillars eat

MAC-ISA Canopy Coverage 8 Summer 2017 Forest Pest Update Continued from page 8 also been observed. Soil samples, Book Review collected and analyzed by the Virginia Rhododendron Dieback Tech Nematode Assay Clinic, revealed rban Forests: A Natural History of Seen in Virginia the presence of ring nematodes. UTrees and People in the American The conundrum surrounding this Cityscape. rhododendron mortality is that a idespread mortality of A new book by Jill Jonnes gives a primary damage agent has not yet Rhododendron maximum (rosebay comprehensive review of the history W been identified. Fungal and nematode rhododendron) in parts of western of the trees in American cities over infections, and possible vole damage, and central Virginia has become the course of the past two centuries, may all be secondary damage agents; significant. Large stretches of dead sharing stories from early supporters we are still searching for the primary and declining rhododendron line the of the Urban Tree Movement to the cause of this rhododendron decline. Blue Ridge Parkway and surrounding fascinating stories of particular species areas in Floyd and Patrick counties. (including Washington, DC’s cherry This rhododendron mortality is visible Did You Know? trees, american chestnut and elm), to along both sides of the parkway, the institution of Arbor Day. Questions sometimes next to healthy plants. rowing degree days (GDD) on how the character of urban forests Many plants are also in early stages Gmeasures the amount of heating can continue to impact commerce, of decline with wilted foliage. The units (degrees) above a 50 degree crime, and human well-being are surface layer beneath these dying baseline for each day of the month. explored. (©2016, hardcover, 394 pp.) rhododendron plants is thick organic Growing degree days are valuable http://www.isa-arbor.com/store/product. matter with circular tunnels that were guides to predict plant development aspx?ProductID=4331&CID=56. perhaps constructed by voles. Signs and pest occurrence. The GDD barometer will be used to track major Forest pest updates by Donna Marie Foster of Armillaria, a fungus that commonly Landscape Architect, MLA decays roots of forest trees that are pest activity and plant events as heating Forest Service stressed by some other factor, have units accumulate over the growing Northeastern Area State & Private Forestry season.

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Summer 2017 MAC-ISA Canopy Coverage 9 Annual Meeting, Sheraton Ocea nside, VA Beach, Oct. 1-2

ANNUAL MEETING Oct. 1-2, Sheraton Oceanfront Virginia Beach, VA, 6 CEUs

Sunday – October 1st Tree Fund Fundraisers to benefit the Bonnie Appleton Memorial Fund Golf Tournament: Hells Point Golf Course: Arrive and lunch at noon, T times starting at 1:00pm, or Motorcycle Ride: Meet at hotel at 9:30 am, leaving at 10 am 7:30- 10:30 Welcome Reception and MAC-ISA Awards Ceremony at 8 pm Monday – October 2nd 7:00 – 7:50 Registration and Breakfast – Silent Auction, Book Sales 7:50 – 8:00 Welcome by Mayor of VA Beach 8:00 – 9:00 Changing Landscapes: Opportunities for a New Partnership Between Permaculture and Arboriculture, Joe Murray, Tree Literacy 9:00 – 10:00 What Do Trees Know? Tom Kimmerer, Venerable Trees 10:00 – 10:15 Refreshment Break and Book Sales 10:15 – 11:15 The Virginia Utility Line Arboreta Story, Laurie Fox, Virginia Tech 11:15 – 12:15 Tree Risk Assessment since TRAQ: Does Practice Make Perfect? Neil Hendrickson, Bartlett Tree Research Lab 12:15 – 12:30 Break 12:30 – 1:45 Lunch, Gold Leaf Awards, Annual Report and Passing of the Gavel 1:45 – 2:00 Break and Auction Ends 2:00 – 3:00 Interagency Operability: Working with First Responders, Steve Connally, Norfolk Fire Rescue, and Atlantic Tree Service 3:00 – 4:00 Destination Trees: Trees to Visit on Your Next Road Trip, Sherry Kern 4:00 – 4:15 Auction Cash out, clean up and depart

General Information - Questions call 703-753-0499 or email [email protected]

Accommodations: Mention MAC-ISA to get group rates at the Sheraton Oceanfront, 3501 Atlantic Ave, Virginia Beach, VA 23451. call 757-425-9000, ($99 plus taxes). Special rate is valid until Sept. 1st. Limited rooms are available, register early. Room rate good Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

MAC-ISA Welcome Reception and MAC-ISA Awards – Sunday, October 1st, 7:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. Sheraton Oceanfront. Mingle with old friends and meet new ones. Light refreshments and cash bar, plus one free drink. MAC-ISA Awards Ceremony.

Silent Auction – One auction will be held this year starting on Monday. Sales revenue from silent auction items is used to fund scholarships to our Annual Meeting for college students. There will also be some items to support the Bonnie Appleton Memorial Fund. Please donate new, quality items for the auction and e-mail the office at [email protected] to tell us what you will be donating. Plan on bidding on the great items we will have this year. We will be accepting cash, checks, and credit cards.

Full and Partial Student Scholarships Available: Visit www.mac-isa.org for application or call 703-753-0499 for more information. You must be a MAC-ISA member to apply, deadline Sept. 1st.

Sponsors needed – Help support the chapter while marketing your business. For form or to register on line www.mac-isa.org.

MAC-ISA Canopy Coverage 10 Summer 2017 Annual Meeting Registration Form MAC-ISA 2017 Annual Meeting, Virginia Beach, VA, October 1-2 Registration Form – register by 9/18 for best price

Name (for badge): First______Last______Membership #: ______(this is your ISA or chapter only membership number, not your certified arborist number. You are a MAC-ISA member if you paid chapter membership dues) Company Name: ______Address: ______City: ______State: ______Zip: ______Cell Phone: ______Email: ______List any special dietary restrictions?______Will you be attending the opening reception on Sunday evening? ____yes ____no ____unsure FEES Total MAC-ISA Members $120 x ___ $______ISA Member only or Other chapter $130 x ___ $______Non-Member $150 x ___ $______(Add $20 to fees after Sept. 18) $______

Membership (for new members, good for one full year) ISA and chapter $185 $______Chapter only $60 $______Student (includes ISA) $25 $______Chapter-only Sustaining $200 $______

Side Events (On Sunday, Oct. 1, please choose only one) Golf Tournament Individual = $90, Foursome = $360 $______Ride for Research $50 $______

Grand total $______! 25% Student discount available for full time student members ! Refund Policy: 10% refund charge. No refunds after Sept. 16, 2017 ! Payments can be made by check or credit card. Please make check payable to MAC-ISA.

Amount enclosed: ______Payment by: ___ Check ___ Visa ___ MasterCard ___ Discover

Card #: ______Exp. Date: ______3-digit Security code: ____ Ck # ______Dp. Date ______Name on card and billing address if different from above: Amount ______App # ______

Questions? Call (703) 753-0499, please mail this registration form with payment to: MAC-ISA ● P.O. Box 1200 ● Haymarket, VA ● 20168 or fax to (703) 894-4994 One form per person please

Summer 2017 MAC-ISA Canopy Coverage 11 Academic News - “Under the Canopy” School in the Spotlight basketry construction and butternut for basketry dyes. Spring break can his month we feature Frostburg be spent in Harlan County, Kentucky TState University in our academic making hickory cane chairs and highlights section. In order to learn a split rail fences at an environmental little more about the university and its education center. programs we ask the same questions Students have completed a va- the programs at each of our featured riety of internships including: urban schools. tree care with Bartlett Tree Care, National Science Foundation Re- 1. Describe programs that you offer titles include Forester in Land Procure- search Experiences for Undergraduates in the areas of Landscape Manage- ment with Maryland Department of in Next Generation Plant Biology at the ment, Arboriculture or Forestry realm Natural Resources, Urban Foresters University of California, and butterfly that would be of particular interest to at Maryland-National Capital Park and gardening with Ladew Topiary Gar- MAC-ISA members or their families. Planning Commission, Landscape dens just to name a few. Study abroad Frostburg offers a unique program, Horticulturalist with the Pittsburgh opportunities have been completed at the only undergraduate program in the Botanical Garden, Hike Leader for the country, in Ethnobotany. Ethnobotany Highland Center of the Appalachian is the study of peoples’ relationships Mountain Club, Botany Technician for with plants and this program focuses the Bureau of Land Management, and on Appalachian cultures and the uses as a Middle School Science Teacher. of non-timber forest products. The 3. Who are the key contacts that we Ethnobotany program has imbedded should use if we would like more infor- Forestry & Biology Minors and opportu- mation about your programs? nities to minor in Cultural Anthropology, Interested students should contact Geography, Chemistry, and Foreign Dr. Sunshine Liberty Brosi, slbrosi@ Languages. The Ethnobotany Program frostburg.edu, 301-687-4213. requires courses such as Dendrology, Forest Ecology & Management, and Stellenbosch University in South Africa Forestry Field Practices. The program and at Massey University’ Wellington News from Virginia Tech is especially attractive to transfer Campus in New Zealand. students with associates in forestry or Undergraduate research oppor- ntern David Formella is busy this natural resources due to reduced time tunities are available in sustainability Isummer working with the Virginia Big to degree. Students in the program of materials for crafts, urban forestry, Tree Program, which is coordinated complete hands-on certificates that and tree-ring analysis. Students pres- by Dr. Eric Wiseman at Virginia Tech. assist them in their careers including ent their research at several meetings David, a rising junior in natural re- Game of Logging Training, Wildland including MAC-ISA, Society of Ameri- sources conservation at Virginia Tech, Firefighting Training, and Certified In- can Foresters, Ecological Society of is helping coordinate recertification of structors for Project Learning Tree. America, Appalachian Studies Associa- champion trees around the state with The Ethnobotany Program offers tion, and Society for Economic Botany. assistance from program volunteers. the unique opportunity in the summer 2. What are the post-graduate op- Over 150 trees will be recertified before to study in rural Alaska and learn from portunities that your students take ad- the end of 2017. David is also gain- Inupiat and Yupik cultures. In addition, vantage? (job areas, transfers to 4-year ing experience with public outreach each January students travel to Chero- programs, etc.) by interacting with big tree owners Graduates have completed Masters and helping out with workshops and of Science programs from Yale Uni- seminars about the big tree program. versity in Environmental Studies and Trees Virginia (the Virginia Urban Forest Forestry, Frostburg State University’s Council) has supported this paid intern- Applied Ecology & Conservation Biol- ship through a grant to Virginia Tech for ogy and Masters of Arts in Teaching. over ten years. Alumni are currently enrolled in PhD programs at the University of Mary- Continued on page 16 land, College Park in Plant Sciences and Landscape Architecture and at the University of Tennessee in Geography in a tree-ring research lab. kee, North Carolina to work with indig- Ethnobotany alumni have a variety enous basket makers on the sustain- of jobs working for federal, state, and ability of rivercane and white oak for non-profit agencies. Their current job

MAC-ISA Canopy Coverage 12 Summer 2017 Scholarship Information Reminders Frank Santamour Fall MAC-ISA Annual Meeting Scholarship Available Student Scholarships

AC -ISA will be offering two schol- AC-ISA has full and partial Marships in the amount of $1250.00 Mscholarships available for our each in Frank’s name. These schol- upcoming meeting, October 1-2 at the Auction Items needed arships will be available to MAC-ISA Sheraton Oceanfront Hotel in Virginia members who are students studying Beach, VA. Applicants must be a Please donate new, quality items arboriculture/urban forestry that have a member of MAC-ISA and currently for the scholarship or Bonnie genuine interest in a career in arboricul- enrolled in an arboriculture, urban Appleton Memorial Fund auction at ture. The scholarships will be available forestry, horticulture or related program. our Annual Meeting. to undergraduate students enrolled in Recipients will be required to E-mail the office at two and four year, colleges and univer- volunteer during the meeting. Hotel [email protected] sities in the Mid-Atlantic area that have rooms will be shared with other to tell us what you will be donating. programs in horticulture, arboriculture scholarship recipients. Last year’s If you won’t be attending the meeting and/or urban forestry. scholarship auction raised $1457, that you can ship your item to the Deadline for submission is Sep- will be used to fund the scholarships. MAC-ISA office. tember 1st. Download an application Applications are available on our form: http://www.mac-isa.org/images/ website http://www.mac-isa.org/ pdfs/Annual-Meeting-Scholarship- images/pdfs/2017-Santamour- Application-2017.pdf or call 703-753- Scholarship-Application.pdf or by 0499. calling 703-753-0499. They must be turned in by Friday, September 1st.

Summer 2017 MAC-ISA Canopy Coverage 13 TREE Fund and International News TREE Fund News • Overall, the 16 teams riding in fully funded, the money generated in the Tour des Trees have raised interest/investment revenue each year pply today for $150,620 which is 49% of the will be used to sponsor scholarships for Aresearch and TREE Fund’s $310,000 goal. students. education grants at • There will be opportunities during You can donate on the TREE www.treefund.org. the ISA Conference to donate to Fund site by going to the following • NEW and the TREE Fund to support this link: https://secure.qgiv.com/ 2017 ONLY: event, and to support our Bonnie for/?key=treefund (third one down). Arboriculture Education Appleton Memorial Fund (managed There are also several opportunities Benchmark Review. TREE Fund by the TREE Fund). at the upcoming MAC-ISA Annual seeks a thorough analysis and • There will be a celebratory 25 mile Meeting October 1-2: report on national educational Slow Ride at the end of the Tour • October 1, Motorcycle Ride: The grant-making programs for des Trees on August 5th. It will ride will start at the Sheraton arboriculture and urban forestry. tour some of the monuments in Virginia Beach Oceanfront Hotel at Award amount: up to $5,000 Washington, D.C. and departs from 10 am and will be about a 100 mile Applications due August 25, 2017 National Harbor, MD, to Alexandria, ride with a stop for lunch about ½ • NEW and 2017 ONLY: Research VA. Registration for the Slow Ride way. There will be stops at local Impacts and Outcomes is a $250 donation to the TREE parks to see historical trees in the Study. TREE Fund requests Fund (tax deductible, of course). area. You must bring your own a comprehensive study of all Registration includes a tee shirt, bike and helmet. $50 per person TREE Fund research grants boxed lunch, and lots of friends • October 1, Golf Tournament: Hells awarded between 2002 and 2017. and fun! Contact Karen Lindell or Point Golf Course will be site of this Award amount: up to $20,000. stop by booth #1021 at the ISA year’s tournament. A Rees Jones Applications due August 25, 2017 Trade show to register. Bring your signature course in the heart of • John Z. Duling Grant (now up to own bicycle and helmet (required) Back Bay Wildlife Refuge. $90 per $25,000!) which provide “seed” to participate in this event. person funding for innovative research and • Tuesday, August 1st, TREE Fund • Please sponsor the TREE Fund technology transfer projects that After Hours Silver Anniversary Tour Golf Tournament - $50 a hole, $250 can benefit arborists’ everyday Celebration Hosted by Mid-Atlantic lunch, or prize donations. Link to work– Application due October 1 Chapter ISA, pdf • Jack Kimmel International Grant 7:00 pm – 8:00 • October 2, Bid on silent auction (up to $10,000) for arboriculture pm, followed items marked BAMF. During the research projects all over the world immediately by annual meeting there will be tables – Application due October 1. MAC-ISA party with various items, some for featuring the band Unfiltered with BAMF and others for the student chapter member Jason Perry as scholarship auction. Item are Tour des Trees lead singer, in Maryland 123 and needed, email the Foyer. GNCC Original Tour [email protected] if you can his is Rider Reunion & Celebration • donate anything. Tthe 25th Silver Ticket Raffle • Mini-Auction We want to thank everyone who Anniversary Raise Your Hand for Research • contributed to this memorial fund in of this cycling Dancing • Light Appetizers & Cash Bonnie’s name that will carry on her event! Some of Bar. FREE admission, but please influence and good works for years to the salient points related to this event sign up at ISA registration so we come! include: have a head count. Get more • There are 70 registered full and details at treefund.org/tfafterhours. part-time riders this year. • The cyclists will ride a series of “loop rides” starting at the Gaylord Bonnie Appleton Memorial Resort and returning to the resort Fund every evening, except one night that they will spend in Gainesville, urrently, the balance in the Bonnie VA. CAppleton Memorial Fund (BAMF) is • So far, Team MAC-ISA’s three approximately $95,000. With pending riders, William Gerhardt, Kristina donations, matching funds, and other Bezanson and Tom Armstrong have contributions, this fund should reach raised $7,770. There is still time to the $100,000 goal by the end of this TREE Fund updates submitted by Doug contribute to support our team at year! Petersen, TREE Fund Liaison stihltourdestrees.org. Once this scholarship fund is

MAC-ISA Canopy Coverage 14 Summer 2017 TREE Fund and International (Cont.) TREE FUND’s New Development Manager

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Translated Arborist News Articles Available on ISA Website

elect articles from Arborist News magazine are be- Sing translated into both Spanish (Spain and Latin America) and German and made available to ISA mem- bers on the ISA website. Article translations will occur four times each year and will be added to our growing collection in ISA’s online publications library.

Summer 2017 MAC-ISA Canopy Coverage 15 Academic News (cont.) Continued from page 12 of its findings will be presented and ists, landscape architects and public discussed at the upcoming ISA annual administration or urban planner posi- News from West Virginia meeting. This study group has con- tions. However, job satisfaction was University ducted surveys of students, employers very high in the profession in spite of and allied professional as well as job what many viewed as limited opportuni- posting analyses to increase our un- ties for career advancement. In a later VU hosted its annual vegetation derstanding of the current status of the presentation that afternoon, Dr. Gregory management week in Summer W urban forestry profession and its linkage Dahle (West Virginia University) will Camp in early June. There were three with higher education in order to make provide an overview of survey results on full days of events that included; a day recommendations to improve the future what employers are looking for in early with Bartlett Tree Experts, and visiting of the urban forestry profession. The career urban foresters and hiring pro- field sites with MonPower and a number educational session “Career Paths in jections over the next 5 years. Please of their contractors (Asplundh, Jaflo, Urban Forestry and Arboriculture: Link- attend the UF2020 sponsored sessions and RotorBlade). Students also learned ing Higher Education and Professional at ISA on Monday morning at 9:30 am about pesticide application and took the Advancement” organized by Dr. Eric and Dr. Dahle’s talk in the afternoon for state pesticide applicators license test Wiseman (Virginia Tech University) will presentations by and discussions on and those who passes received their key findings. Some of which include this topic with nationally recognized applicators license. the diverse educational background in experts in this area. professional identities in people who Urban Forestry 2020 perform duties of “urban forester and the number of entry-level employ- Dr. Joe Sullivan, U of MD edits “Under the (UF2020) to be at ISA Canopy,” Canopy Coverage’s Academic News ment opportunities for “urban forest- column. Please contact him with news about he multi-institutional urban for- ers.” The study found that many in the students, activities, programs, research, or any other items of interest at [email protected] Testry research group (UF2020) will profession entered urban forestry from conclude its study this year and many allied professional areas such as arbor-

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Summer 2016 MAC-ISA Canopy Coverage 17 Feature Articles Ways to Honor our Veter- much. Sign up to volunteer at www.SalutingBranches.org. MAC-ISA Board Member ans: Saluting Branches Contact us at info@salutingbranch- Elections es.org or at 1-844-922-1151 to learn he 3rd Annual Saluting Branches more about the Saluting Branches oting in the MAC-ISA election Twill take place on Wednesday, Sep- initiative and how you can help make Vonly takes a few minutes. tember 20st, 2017 at 45 National this day a huge success. We will be using the ISA website Cemeteries nationwide. In our chapter so you will need your user name area there will be three areas to partici- Anne Buckelew steps (usually your email address) and pate: Quantico National Cemetery in down as MAC-ISA Vice your password. If you don’t have Triangle, VA, Hampton National Cem- one yet please go to isa-arbor.com etery in Hampton, VA and Baltimore President and register. National Cemetery in Baltimore, MD. This year you will be electing 4 Through their partnership with the U.S. n a letter to the board of directors new board members and a Vice Department of Veterans Affairs, Salut- Idated May 31st Anne stated: President. There are a variety of ing Branches looks forward to provid- “After serious thought and people running for the board from ing another successful day of volunteer reflection, I have decided that I our regions: DC, MD, WV and VA tree care for veterans’ cemeteries am unable to fulfill my duties as and also from the various sectors: throughout the country! MAC-ISA Vice President/President utility, municipal, commercial and to the standards that the Board educational. Please read over the and Chapter members deserve. biographies, look at the makeup of My responsibilities at work have our existing board and help select changed drastically since I first a diverse board. If we have your agreed to have my name on the email on file you will receive a notice ballot. In my current job, I cannot in August with directions on how devote the time and attention that to participate, others will be mailed is necessary to function in the best a ballot. Your input is important, interest of the Chapter and I do not please vote. The election will run foresee that circumstance changing from August 28th - Sept. 15th, if anytime in the next 2 years.” you will be away from your email We are very thankful for the work during that period, please call the she has done while on the board office so we can mail you a ballot. and her dedication to the chapter. Last year the race was very close What is Saluting Branches? Per the MAC-ISA bylaws the board with only a few votes’ difference, so Saluting Branches: Arborists United for of directors elected a Vice President your vote really counts! Veteran Remembrance is a day of ser- on July 7th, from our existing board. vice for tree care professionals through- Lauren McCallister who works for out the country to unite and do what Appalachian Power in West Virginia Please Sponsor the we do best – provide exceptional tree is the new Vice President and will TREE Fund care – to keep our veterans’ cemeteries become President on October 2nd. safe, beautiful places for all those who She has been on the board for Golf Tournament at our visit. almost 4 years. As Anne also stated Annual Meeting Why Participate in Saluting in her letter and the board concurs Branches? “I know that I will be turning the All proceeds will benefit the NEED: According to the Dept of Vet- leadership of the group to capable, Bonnie Appleton Memorial erans Affairs, many National Cemeter- enthusiastic hands.” Fund ies do not regularly have professional $50 a hole arborists inspecting and caring for their $250 lunch trees Prize donations COMMUNITY: Saluting Branches is a call 703-753-0499 or fun and exciting opportunity to work http://www.mac-isa.org/images/ alongside arborists who are your com- pdfs/golfsponsorflier2017.pdf petitors every other day of the year AWARENESS: Saluting Branches will allow coverage of arboriculture in the Some of the MAC-ISA Board Members at their local and national media, raising the recent meeting at the Edith J Carrier Arboretum awareness of professional arborists in Harrisonburg, VA. Photo courtesy of Nancy Herwig SERVICE: Saluting Branches allows us to give back and serve veterans and their families who have given us all so

MAC-ISA Canopy Coverage 18 Summer 2017 Member News, International (Cont.)

Meet our that fell into a Special Thanks to the poplar across a member: driveway. We 2017 ISA Conference David removed both Chairs Mitchell sides. How do you or over a year a committee of like to spend ould you FMAC-ISA members has been your time when tell us a working with ISA to plan for the 2017 C not doing little about ISA Conference and ITCC/Arbor Fair arboriculture? your company and Arbor Expo. The chairs have I like to spend “Mitchell’s Tree been meeting monthly via conference my spare time Care and Landscape Consulting LLC? call and working on various tasks to with my wife and 9 month old son, I am using the name Mitchell Tree support the meeting. This is an ISA hiking, rock climbing, or waterskiing. Care, LLC now, less of a mouthful. I conference but MAC-ISA is the host and wants it to be a safe, memorable will have been in business for 3 years Interview by Todd Hagadone this September. I employ 2 people experience for everyone. Over 70 and subcontract with another tree volunteers have also been recruited to company on larger jobs. We have help during the meeting. been working to treat ash trees in the 2017 Chairs area around Morgantown, and have Alan Jones, Chair been busy doing lots of removals, Steve Genua, Assistant Chair prunings, and cable jobs this summer. Sue Greeley and Luke McCall, Arbor Did you recently participate or Fair volunteer in a MAC ISA event? Which Cindy Musick, Hospitality and event? Decorations We recently attended the MAC-ISA Rob Springer and Keith Kanzler, Day of Safety at Allegany College in ITCC Cumberland, MD. I also volunteered Nancy Herwig, Exhibits and at the annual meeting last October in Sponsorship Morgantown. Travel Grants Awarded to Greg Dahle, Program Brian LeCouteur, Publicity Could you tell us about your Five Members background; education, certifications, Doug Petersen and Kristina Benzanson, Tree Fund Events experience, and how you got into hanks to a grant from the Virginia Kevin Sigmon and Jay Banks, Arboriculture? Department of Forestry Urban and T Volunteers I grew up in West Virginia, got a BS in Community Forestry Grant Program Horticulture at WVU and interned with and MAC-ISA, five travel grants to Bartlett in Irwin, PA during that time. cover full registration to the 2017 I went to Virginia Tech to get my MS ISA conference were awarded. The in Urban Forestry under Susan Day, following MAC-ISA members received and then returned to Morgantown to the grants; Adria Bordas, Susan start my business. I have been an ISA French, Tanner Haid, Jennifer Hughes Certified Arborist for 3 years. I am also and Mary Marvel. They will all be a licensed pesticide applicator in WV. volunteering at the meeting as part What does a typical day look like for of the agreement. Everyone is very you? excited to attend the meeting! My typical day is composed of working at 1-3 different job sites doing pruning or removal work. Most spring Future ISA Annual days I am injecting ash trees in the International mornings. I usually have bookkeeping to do at the end of the day Conference Dates and Any exciting or interesting tree care Locations: jobs you have worked on recently? We had some fun no-cleanup work • 2018: 4-8 August, Columbus, Alan Jones, Nancy Herwig and Steve Genua at Cheat Lake that involved felling Ohio promoting the ISA Conference dead ash off of a cliff recently. We • 2019: 10-14 August, Knoxville, also had a large, double trunk red oak Tennessee

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