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Workshop: Urban Forestry Made Easy
Clanton • January 29, 2008
The Alabama Urban Forestry Association has announced its first tree
care workshop for 2008 (click here for the registration form!). Please make plans to attend. It's a great way to keep current and network with others.
The one-day workshop is January 29th at the Alabama Power Watercourse
Building in Clanton. Registration is $25 (AUFA member) and $35 or $30
each if you come with a group of three or more (non-AUFA member).
And...save these dates for upcoming workshops!
Hamilton, AL (April 3rd)
Anniston, AL (May 15th)
Florence, AL (June 5th)
The Fall 2007 Newsletter...
Did you get your copy? This quarter it has two parts: click here & click here
The 23rd Annual AUFA Conference
It's time to sign up for the Nov. 14-16, 2007 conference in Fairhope...click here
Let’s Talk Trees workshop/Tuscaloosa
Here's the invitation from County Extension Coordinator Wayne Ford:
Here is the agenda of an upcoming workshop that you may be interested in attending.
The meeting is titled “Let’s Talk Trees” and will be held at the Tuscaloosa County
Extension Auditorium on Tuesday, June 26, 2007. The workshop will start at 8:00 a.m.
and last until approximately 3:45 p.m. It is sponsored by the Alabama Urban Forestry
Association in conjunction with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System.
The subject matter should be interesting to everyone from the average homeowner to
arborist and even consulting foresters. Points will be awarded for ISA, CFE’s, Pesticide
Education and even Master Gardener credit.
Please look over the agenda and plan on being with us on Tuesday, June 26th. Feel free
to get the word out and invite anyone you want to, just let us know by June 19th as we
need a number for lunch and break preparation. Here's more....
It's A Tree Thing!
An Educational Seminar on the planting and Care of TREES! - in Sylacauga on February 15, 2007...click here for more!
Let’s Talk Trees workshop
AUFA, in conjunction with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, is proud to offer a workshop that offers something for anyone interested in trees and their care. Home owners, Master Gardeners and those in the industry are all welcomed to the Let’s Talk Trees workshop at the Environmental Training Center in the North Shelby Library on Tuesday, January 16, 2007, beginning at 8:30am and ending by 4:00pm that afternoon. Registration includes lunch and refreshments and the workshop is approved for pesticide points, CFE’s and ISA points. Space is limited and we need a head count for the meal, so please RSVP or pre-register by Tuesday, January 8th, 2007. See attachment for more details.
Wildlife: Short Course & Trade Show - Environmental Training Center
North Shelby County Library - November 16, 2006
6-8:45pm
Here's more!
The 2006 Annual Meeting - Registration form available!
It's time to sign up - download the registration form for this year's convention here.
Tree & Beautification Board Academy
Sign up now for the TBBA, designed for Tree Board members and citizens who care about trees in their communities. Montgomery - November 1-2, 2006. Click here for registration form & more info.
Certified Arborist Training
A workshop on community forest management. Click here for registration form & more info.
Living with our Urban Forests Workshop
Signup today for the Living with Our Urban Forests Workshop - at Aldridge Botanical Gardens on July 13, 2006.
Click here for agenda, registration materials & more...
Landscaping with Trees
The Mobile Botanical Gardens will host a Landscaping with Trees workshop on June 14. Click here for a workshop agenda and registration form. Sign up now!
This meeting has been approved for 10 pesticide points along with 5.25 ISA CEU's.
Workshops - Take your pick!
The Environmental Training Center of Alabama at the North Shelby Library is offering testing, training, recertification, and networking opportunities for spring 2006.
The ETC is offering classes & workshops from March through May 30th.
Check here for full details.
FOX 6 and AUFA team up to plant trees
Five Birmingham schools received new trees, courtesy of FOX 6 and AUFA...here's the details.
Arbor Day 2006 - February 25
The day was wet, cold and windy, but love for trees warmed things up at the State Arbor Day event, Saturday Feb. 25, at Wellborn Park in Calhoun County. That's State Arbor Day Poster Winner Mitch Nolte receiving his certificate from president Amanda Smith. Here's more photos from the event.
Some cities find money grows on trees
Cities are starting to treat trees less as decoration and more like public
utilities now that they can calculate how much money trees save by cutting
air pollution, storm runoff and energy costs. Here's more from USA Today.
Barren cities turn over a new leaf
What happens when a city has a shortage of trees? Tree roots soak up rain. Without them, water rolls downhill onto streets and dumps sediment into rivers and streams. Article from USA Today.
FREE TREES AVAILABLE!
The National Tree Trust is taking applications for free trees. Please submit applications to the Coosa Valley Youth Services/Calhoun County Extension Office at: 1702 Noble Street, Suite 108, Anniston, AL 36201 or call 256/237-1621. Here's more & application.
Federal Government Offers Urban Forestry Assistance to Storm-Ravaged Communities
Communities may soon benefit from emergency supplemental funding provided by Congress to mitigate the effects of Ivan Here's more.
Sylacauga Faces need for City Forester
posted 3/21/05
City Commission says it's needed. Here's more.
Huntsville fifth grader wins state poster contest for Arbor Day
posted 2/25/05; updated 3/15/05
(For more Arbor Day photos around the state, click here)
When Holly Thomas, a fifth-grader at Monte Sano Elementary School in Huntsville, set out working on her Arbor Day poster, she never imagined her efforts would culminate in personal praise from the governor of Alabama.
(Left: Alabama Gov. Bob Riley autographs a shovel for Holly Thomas, winner of this year’s Arbor Day Poster Contest.)
Thomas, along with two runners-up in the Alabama Arbor Day Poster Contest --- Blake Fountain of Crossville Elementary School and Sam Barnes of St. Paul’s Lutheran School in Cullman --- joined Governor Bob Riley on Wednesday, Feb. 3, for the annual Arbor Day tree planting on the Alabama Capitol grounds. Here's more.
That's Holly's poster below - click on it to see a larger version.
Official State Arbor Day Celebration will be held in Montevallo
Saturday, February 26
All Day Activities in Orr Park include
Exhibits from local organizations, Tree Giveaways, Educational Demonstrations on proper tree care including pruning, planting and locating the right tree in the right place, Tree Experts on Hand to answer your questions. Announcement of National Arbor Day Foundation's City and State 5th Grade Poster Contest
Winners for Trees are Terrific...and Energy Wise. Plus Bus Tours to University of Montevallo Campus to see historic trees and landscaping design.
Meet representatives from Alabama Forestry Commission, Shelby County Master Gardeners, Montevallo Mayor, City Council and Park Board members, Alabama Cooperative Extension System, Montevallo Arbor & Beautification Board. FREE and Open to the Public. www.cityofmontevallo.com
Listen to TREE TALK on the radio!
Every Saturday morning at 6:30 AM on Home Grown Tomatoes.
ISA 2005 Test Schedule - Jan 28, April 9 and Oct 21
Put it on our calendars now!
Congratulations to the newest members of the 2005 National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council (NUCFAC):
-Suzanne Probart, Owner, Southwest Growers and Interiorscape, Albuquerque, N.M.
-Beth Applegate, Executive Director, National Tree Trust, Takoma Park, Md.
-Juan Carlos Cervantes, Director of Science and Research, International
Society of Arboriculture, Champaign, Ill.
-W. Neil Letson, State Urban Forestry Coordinator, Alabama Forestry
Commission, Montgomery, Ala.
-Bobbi Wallace, Park Resource Section Manager, King County Department of
Natural Resources and Parks, Redmond, Wash.
The cleanup from Hurricane Ivan continues. Here's our report including a map of the damaged areas in south Alabama.
