Summer Conference Agenda

July 18th & 19th, 2024 

THURSDAY EVENING:  18 JULY 2024

5:00 to 6:00 pm:  Dinner, Cash Bar, and “Catching Up,  and Renewing Old Contacts”

7:00 to 8:30 pm:  Subject Matter Round Tables Discussions

• Tree Risk Assessment and Overview of Advanced Tools and Methods, Structural Pruning, Working Around Utilities (Schulz, Lane, and Francke)

 (Attendees will rotate between round tables at approximately 30-minute intervals)

FRIDAY ALL DAY:  19 JULY 2024

7:00 to 8:00 am:  Check in and Breakfast

8:00 to 8:15 am:  Welcome and Announcements 

8:30 to 9:15 am:  Field Program at ISU Arboretum (Each group will rotate between each of the three sessions with each session lasting 45 to 50 minutes)

• Group A:  Tree Risk Assessment: An Overview of Advanced Tools and Methods – Steve Lane 
• Group B:  Structural Pruning of Young Trees – Aaron Schulz
• Group C: Minimum approach distance when working around utilities – Eric Francke

9:20 am to 10:05 am: 

• Group A: Tree Risk Assessment: An Overview of Advanced Tools and Methods –Steve Lane
• Group B:  Structural Pruning of Young Trees – Aaron Schulz
• Group C: Minimum approach distance when working around utilities — Eric Francke

10:05 to 10:35 am:  Mid-Morning Break

10:40 am to 11:30am

• Group A:  Tree Risk Assessment: An Overview of Advanced Tools and Methods–Steve Lane 
• Group B:  Structural Pruning of Young Trees – Aaron Schulz
• Group C: Minimum approach distance when working around utilities – Eric Francke

11:30 am – 12:15 noon:  Attendees may walk the campus, look at the other tree issues, visit with presenters, and/or enjoy the arboretum.

12:15 to 1:15 pm: Lunch

1:15 to 2:00 pm:  UFCF-Update-Tree City Issues and Tree City USA – Mike Brunk and Avery Viadero

2:00 to 2:30 pm:  Follow up on the  morning Tree Risk Assessment exercise with analysis and discussion of the outdoor risk assessment findings, TRAQ program, and Introduction to the IAA Advanced Training Program for 2023 and Beyond – Steve Lane, and IAA Advanced Training Committee

2:30 to 3:00 pm:   LMS Update – Aaron Schulz

3:00-3:15 wrap up