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Examine the arboriculture industry, specialties, and employment opportunities
Assessment Strategies
Written product and/or oral presentation
Criteria
Define arboriculture and urban forestry
Differentiate between specialties within the industry (commercial, municipal, and utility arboriculture)
Identify several historical practices and recent changes in the industry
Identify common jobs and the industry’s growth potential, wages, demographics, and challenges
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Incorporate principles of arboriculture
Assessment Strategies
Written product and/or oral presentation
Criteria
Identify key principles of arboriculture and tree care
Describe regulations related to tree care activities
Relate the arboriculture industry to urban forestry
Describe sustainable urban forests
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Analyze trees in an urban environment
Assessment Strategies
Quiz, Written product and/or oral presentation
Criteria
Describe the effects of the urban forest on air quality, air temperature, wind and energy savings, storm water run-off, erosion control, and noise reduction, social and psychological benefit
Explain the economic values of the urban forest and how they are determined
Examine equity in urban forestry (canopy coverage and green space by economic status, park square footage)
Identify the cost of tree maintenance options
Compare neighborhood urban forest plantings within South Central Wisconsin area
Calculate tree maintenance costs for lifespan
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Identify factors that affect tree, shrub, and turf health
Assessment Strategies
Quiz, Scenario Response
Criteria
Identify common invertebrate and vertebrate, pathogenic, and abiotic plant disorders
Evaluate symptoms and signs of tree, shrub, and turf health problems
Distinguish between what is normal and abnormal
Explain a diagnostic approach to tree health management
Describe integrated pest management and its impact on arboriculture
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Identify factors that determine Tree Hazard Management
Assessment Strategies
Quiz, Scenario Response
Criteria
Explain the component of hazard evaluations
Describe the Factors influencing tree failure
Demonstrate evaluating trees for defects
Evaluate trees for potential for storm damage and evaluate storm effects on the urban forest
Evaluate the Potential for tree failure caused by decay
Explain Tree Hazard Management
Describe mitigation strategies within Tree Hazard Management
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Determine the purpose of common landscape equipment, tools, and facilities
Assessment Strategies
Quiz, Field Exercise
Criteria
Match purpose of common landscape equipment, tools, and equipment to a task
Determine the financial impact of arboriculture equipment purchases
Describe long term impact of equipment purchases versus labor costs
Identify the cost of tree maintenance options
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Evaluate incident reports of common equipment in the arboriculture industry
Assessment Strategies
Written product (maintenance/incident report), Field Exercise
Criteria
Identify best maintenance practices of common pieces of industry equipment
Describe how the incidents could have been prevented
Include components in report as specified by instructor
Follow ANSI Standards that apply to arboriculture and equipment maintenance and safety