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Tree Risk Assessment: Transitioning from TRACE to TRAQ
Summary
With the introduction of ISA’s Tree Risk Assessment Best Management Practices (BMP), there have been significant changes in the way that tree risk assessments should be conducted. This course will describe these changes with a focus on the levels assessment established in the BMP, categorizing likelihood of failure and impact, estimating consequences of tree failures, and using the new matrix to rate risk. This is an ideal starting point for Tree Risk Assessor Course and Exam (TRACE) certified professionals, instructors, and other arborists to transition to the new BMP/ISA Tree Risk Assessment Qualification (TRAQ) methodology.
Conference Proceedings Documents
Presenters
E. Thomas Smiley
, Ph.D.,Plant Pathologist/Soil Scientist, Bartlett Tree Research
Lab, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Dr. Tom Smiley is an
arboricultural researcher at the Bartlett Tree Research Laboratory in
Charlotte, North Carolina, and an adjunct professor of urban forestry at
Clemson University. He received an M.S. in plant pathology from Colorado State
University and his doctorate in urban forestry from Michigan State University. Tom
is a co-author of the ISA Tree Risk Assessment BMP.
Nelda Matheny
,
HortScience, Inc., Pleasanton, California, United States
Nelda Matheny is
president of HortScience, Inc., in Pleasanton, California, a horticultural,
arboricultural, and urban forestry consulting firm she started in 1983. She and
her partner Jim Clark have authored many articles and four books together,
including A Photographic Guide to Hazard
Evaluation in Urban Areas and Trees
and Development. Their most recent book is The Municipal Specialist Study Guide. Nelda is a co-author of the
ISA Tree Risk Assessment BMP.
Climbers' Corner • Tree Academy
Monday • Tuesday • Wednesday