Tree Care Class - Southern Oregon

20 years ago

This message will pertain to only a handful of users on the is forum, but this forum is more regional that the trees forum.

Portland has several landscape / tree degree programs available within a 50 mile radius.

Medford, Ashland, Grants Pass and other southern Oregon cities near there have zero professional level tree care classes. No college program for landscaping.

There will be a tree care class available at Rogue Community College for Tree Care and landscape design pertaining to trees. It will cover quite a bit about soils. That means that the entire body of material will apply to shrubs, gardening, design and trees. It's an arborist's class that knits landscaping and arboriculture together.

It will be in February for 4 Monday nights. There is no degree program for the class, so it is tucked into the community education classes. The schedule has yet to be printed.

The class will have a late start date in February. If you, or anyone you know down in that area, may be interested, calendars should be marked - for the start date, and for enrollment.

When the winter schedule comes out, this is what to look for:

County - Jackson

Course - .216

Sec. - M33

Day - Monday

Dates - 2/27 to 3/20

Cost - $62

Time 7 - 9pm

Location - Rogue Community College

This class will be tailored for home gardeners as well as professionals, but is a professional material class.

Homeowners as well as tree service workers should benefit.

Please advance this message to anyone that may be interested - gardeners, parks, landscapers, tree service workers, friends.

This will be the only college class on tree care in southern Oregon.

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Internode
Original Author
20 years ago
Almost forgot; if it posts right, here is the basic core of the course outling:

Session 1

Introduction to trees
Explanation of genus, species and variety + ordering purchasing
Fitting trees to a landscape design or property
Basic tree identification (ID) characteristics
Tree anatomy basics
Relationship between trees and soil
Selecting trees and transporting
Installation / planting
Tree support and protection
Basic diagnosis (12 signs of hazard trees - #1 to #6)

Session 2

Installation / planting
Tree support and protection
Basic diagnosis (12 signs of hazard trees - #7 to #12)
pruning
a. Reasons and benefits
b. Tools
c. Safety
d. Guidelines
e. Strategy
Watering
Mulching
a. Benefits of mulch
b. Conditioning / polysaccharides and soil structure
Transplanting
Sunburn
Tree topping and resulting problems
Crown reduction as an alternative to topping

Session 3

Tree topping and resulting problems
Crown reduction as an alternative to topping
Effects of herbicides on trees
Effects of herbicides on soils and the impact to trees
Mycorrhizae
Fertilizer
Apparent tree problem (shedding foliage)
Design and Trees Â avoiding problems (dripping & cars, fruit & stains, etc.)
Wound dressing effects

Session 4

Deciduous Trees (Different genus & species and pros & cons)
Evergreen Trees (Different genus & species and pros & cons)
Deciduous Conifers Â introduction
Trees and energy conservation
Attractive characteristics (bark, leaves, irregularities)
Defensible home wildfire safety and trees.
Roots (lawn, sidewalks, barriers, etc.)
gmathew
18 years ago
It been a great sessions of learning, how to relate plants with soil. I learned a lot from this session. Everyone in southern Oregon will definitely will pertain plants and start growing tress and plants. Thank you for the valuable information regarding tree care class. Not only will the Homemakers, tree service makers be benefited.
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Greg Mathew

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