Emphasis on the planting, growth, maintenance, and protection of trees in the landscape, either as individuals or small groups. Practical experience in urban tree care and management. Emphasis on the planting, maintenance, and protection of landscape trees. Individual and small group instruction. An evolutionary survey of the plant kingdom with emphasis on structure, life cycles and ecological significance, and importance of non-vascular and lower vascular plants.
Laboratory includes individual study of selected diseases.
Identification of insects to orders and families utilizing insects from the student's own insect collection. Students will be given the opportunity to be tested by the Department of Environmental Conservation to receive certification at the end of the course. Introduction to integrated pest management tactics of monitoring, forecasting, determining thresholds and control options. The course will also survey pest management programs used in various agricultural environments. Basic instruction in forest management problems, forest measurement, utilization, silviculture and forest fire control.