VIRTUAL WEBINAR SERIES Natural Areas Management Services: Expanding Business Opportunities for Green Industry Professionals

About the webinar

Are you a Green Industry professional interested in expanding the suite of services offered to your clients to include creating and enhancing woodlands and meadows? If so, then this three-part webinar series is for you! Developed by The Woods in Your Backyard Partnership, this program aims to inform and equip green industry professionals with knowledge and skills to provide additional services to clientele while improving ecosystem health. Small-scale natural area management services include wildlife habitat enhancement, forestry practices such as reforestation and invasive control. A resource manual and specialized checklist tool complement the training and help Green Industry professionals determine which enhancement practices suit a given property.

Event details

Participate in this virtual series of webinars to earn continuing education credits and gain valuable insights into the best forestry practices and management techniques.

When

Oct. 3, 10, & 17, 2023
(6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. ET)

This three-part webinar series provides in-depth instruction related to the management of a small-acreage property from start to finish through our case-study scenario. We start with an assessment of the client’s property with a standard checklist and proceed with plan development and finish with the implementation of various land care practices, creating wildlife habitat, managing invasive plants, tree planting and reforesting a property.

This series will increase your knowledge and skills so you can gain an edge over the competition and grow your business by providing additional services for existing and new clients.

Each participant will receive a copy of the Woodland Health Practices Field Guide, a $7.50 value.

Who is this for?

• Landscape Contractors
• Arborists
• Landscape Architects
• Land Managers
• Horticulturalists

What will you learn?

• How to assess the health of your clients’ natural areas
• How to increase natural areas through planting and maintenance
• How to develop high-quality wildlife habitat
• How to manage invasive plants
• How to create a land care plan to meet client objectives

Credits Available

A certificate of attendance will be provided to all “live” session attendees, which can be used to obtain professional development credits.

Continuing Education Units pending for:

• International Society of Arboriculture (ISA)
• Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professionals (CBLP)
• Landscape Architects
• PLNA Certified Horticulturalist
• VNLA Certified Horticulturalists
• Society of American Foresters (SAF)

Recommended Publications

Additional Woodland Health Practices Resources are available at a discounted rate to registrants.

A discount code will be provided in your registration confirmation email. The discount code will remove $5 from each publication purchased.

Woodland Health Practices Handbook: A Practitioner’s Guide for Creating, Enhancing, and Maintaining Natural Areas (EE0613)
Originally $15.00 – Discounted to $10.00
Woods in Your Backyard (EE0525)
Originally $15.00 – Discounted to $10.00

Program sponsors

This webinar series is provided by The Woods in Your Backyard Partnership; a collaboration of the University of Maryland Extension, Penn State Extension, Virginia Cooperative Extension, Virginia Department of Forestry, the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay/Forests for the Bay, Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service and the Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council.

Registration is required to receive the link to access the webinar.

Registrants will also receive access to the webinar recordings.

Register By
Sept. 25, 2023 12 a.m.