Construction Site Tree Preservation
A Seminar for Minimizing Tree Damage in Work Zones
This seminar will cover the following topics:
- Why save trees?
- Trees & Soil: Where have we gone wrong?
- Tree Preservation Strategies: What do we need to know?
- How to cross root zones safely?
Cost: $40.00 (Lunch included)
This course is approved for 2 professional development hours (with 0.75 hours fulfilling Health, Safety and Wellness requirement) from the Alabama Board of Examiners of Landscape Architects.
Seminar Lunch Sponsored By:
CE Event Speakers
Beau Brodbeck, Alabama Cooperative Extension System, Regional Extension Agent
My education and experience are strongly rooted in forestry having graduated from Auburn’s School of Forestry with a Bachelors of Science in 2000. Following graduation I took a position as a consulting forester working with a variety timberland owners across the State. In 2003 I was recruited to graduate school in pursuit of a Masters of Science in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University. I worked in a multidisciplinary program combining the School of Forestry and Rural Sociology departments at Auburn University. My research addressed the disjunctions between the growing numbers of small timberland holdings and a large consolidating forest industry unable to provide forest management to small timberland owners.
Today I am newest addition to the “Urban and Community Forestry Program” having been hired September 1st of 2005. In my current position as Extension Specialist in Urban and Community Forestry I look forward to working with communities recuperating from the recent hurricanes. Specifically, I will work with the Hurricane Ivan Financial Assistance Program, promoting and educating applying organizations and managing the progress of the program. Under this program I am working with city governments, non-profit organizations, and educational institutions to promote the replacement, remediation, and assessments of urban forests. My hope is to assist communities in the process of rejuvenating and expanding Alabama’s urban forests destroyed during hurricane events.
(Beau Brodbeck was born and raised in Guatemala C.A. until moving to Fairhope Alabama where he first attended Faulkner State before transferring to Auburn University for his Bachelors of Science in Forestry where he lived until moving back to Fairhope. Beau is fluent in Spanish, an Alabama Registered Forester and ISA Certified Arborist.)
Forestry, Wildlife, and Natural Resource Management
Jack Rowe, Alabama Cooperative Extension System, Regional Extension Agent
Jack Rowe serves as a Regional Extension Agent with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System and as a Community Forester for 17 rural towns, in the ALA-TOM RC&D Council region. Jack is involved in local Community Forestry projects and writes and lectures on tree benefits and management.
Jack is a native of the Eastern Kentucky Mountains and was educated at the University of Kentucky, earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Horticulture and a Minor in Pest Management. He went on to earn a Master of Science in Entomology focusing on Horticultural Entomology.
His past work experience includes Horticultural Consulting an associate consultant and researcher in Urban Forestry (with an emphasis on Tree Preservation), Landscape Maintenance, and Regulatory Pest Control. Other experience includes Horticulturist for the Louisville Metro Parks System and Landscape Quality Assurance with Dent Enterprises of Michigan. His most recent experience was with The Care of Trees Inc., Land Restoration and Tree Preservation Division in the Washington, DC and Baltimore region.
AGITC Contact Information:
Email: jtnabors@aces.edu
Website: www.agitc.org
Location: 5521 Cahaba Valley Road, Birmingham, AL, United States
Phone: 205-981-2326
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