Description

AGENDA
5:00 - 5:15 Registration and gathering
5:15 - 5:45  Leah Grigorov - 2025 Municipal Forestry Institute’s immersive week-long training opportunity.
5:45 - 6:15 Dinner
6:15 - 7:15 Stella Dee - This presentation will describe the preliminary conclusions of a TREE Fund study looking at how different pruning severities and cut types (removal versus reduction cuts) alter the communities of herbivorous arboreal invertebrates across tree species (American elm, green ash and littleleaf linden) in Amherst, Massachusetts and consider some of the possible ecological and management ramifications.
7:15 - 7:30 Wrap-up and evaluations

Municipal Forestry Institute Training Opportunity
Longmeadow’s Tree Warden and Conservation Agent Leah Grigorov will discuss the exciting, high-level training opportunity provided by the Institute. This intensive week long training helps you master the leadership and management tools needed to take your program to the next level.

Emerging research suggests that industry-standard arboricultural pruning may increase the population of herbivorous invertebrates associated with a tree for at least two years following pruning.
Stella Dee is an MCA and ISA-certified arborist, a Ph.D. candidate supervised by Dr. Brian Kane at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a research associate with the Frank A. Waugh Arboretum under the auspices of University of Massachusetts Facilities & Campus Services. Her research has been supported by a TREE Fund Hyland R. Johns Grant, New England ISA, the Garden Club of America, the Bartlett Tree Foundation, and the Massachusetts Tree Wardens and Foresters Association. She completed a Master of Forestry at Michigan Technological University.

Credits: 1 MQTW Credit, 1.5 ISA CEUs Pending, 1 MAA Education Credits Pending