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Student Arborists Needed. A great foundation for a career as an arborist, urban forester, or wildland forester. Learn basic and advanced job skills. Pruning Climbing Removal Planting Health Care Assessment & Mapping. Pruning. Keep trees healthy, safe and beautiful
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Student Arborists Needed A great foundation for a career as an arborist, urban forester, or wildland forester.
Learn basic and advanced job skills • Pruning • Climbing • Removal • Planting • Health Care • Assessment & Mapping
Pruning • Keep trees healthy, safe and beautiful • Address structure and function • Know what to cut, where to cut it, and why you’re cutting it.
Climbing • Knots, ropes, pulleys • Advanced climbing systems • Self-belayed, ascend/descend • Rope installation • Get paid to work out
Removals • Chainsaw safety and maintenance • Felling techniques • Ropes and rigging
Planting • Right tree in the right place • Dig a bowl not a hole • Species diversity
Health Care • Root collar excavation • Root zone decompaction • Fertilization • Integrated Pest Management
Assessment & Mapping • Identification • GIS Inventory • Tree appraisal • Maintenance scheduling
Work toward certification from the International Society of Arboriculture as a Certified Arborist or Certified Tree Worker • Minimum 4 years experience or 4 year degree • Comprehensive test • Minimum 18 months experience • Skills based tests: written and hands-on
Contact Preston Colver preston.colver@gmail.com