Understanding Urban Tree System Benefits, Costs, and Interactions

Date and Time
Location
Online
Presenters
Scott A Sjolander
Lara Roman
Research Themes

During Understanding Urban Tree System Benefits, Costs, and Interactions we will discuss the range of tree services and disruptions urban forest decision-makers encounter. This event will help you consider stakeholder needs to prepare a most useful community forest.

This event is being offered at no charge to participants, however, if you would like to receive Continuing Education Credits, there may be a fee. If you will be seeking credits for watching this webinar, please select which credits you wish to apply for during registration. In order to receive credits, you must watch the webinar during the live session for which you registered and attend the full session. The time in session will be verified before credits are assigned.

Credits Available

A fee may be associated with the below credits. See the Fees tab for details. 

  • Society of American Foresters CFE Credits (pending approval)
  • International Society of Arboriculture Credits
  • Peer Volunteer/Master Gardener Update Training

Thank you to our partners: US Forest Service, State and Private Forestry; Pennsylvania DCNR, Bureau of Forestry; and Pennsylvania TreeVitalize Program, Pennsylvania Community Trees.

Registration is required to receive the link to access the webinar. Registrants will also receive access to the webinar recording.

WHO IS THIS FOR?

  • Public tree, landscape, and environmental board members
  • Municipal managers and arborists
  • Others interested in urban and community forestry

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?

  • To consider tree system and neighbor interrelationships in sustainable urban forests
  • Raise awareness of service and disservice relationships inherent in tree system use
  • Enhance participant cost/benefit analysis among competing tree landscape system priorities
  • Increase participants' ability to incorporate stakeholder perceptions in sustainable urban forest decision-making