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Municipal Specialist Certification Study Guide

By Nelda P. Matheny and James R. Clark


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Municipal arboriculture is a specialized field of arboriculture and urban forestry that involves planning, planting, establishing, protecting, and managing public trees and associated vegetation on public land in communities. This guide was originally designed to help ISA Certified Arborists® prepare for the ISA Municipal Specialist Certification exam.

(©2008, softcover, 279 pp., photographs, index, glossary, appendices)

Eight chapters cover these topics:
  • Municipal Arboriculture and Urban Forestry
  • Assessing and Quantifying the Urban Forest
  • Planning the Urban Forest
  • Planting the Urban Forest
  • Maintaining the Urban Forest
  • Managing Risk in the Urban Forest
  • Protecting the Urban Forest
  • Administrative Duties of the Municipal Arborist

The ISA Municipal Specialist Certification has been updated and rebranded. This study guide has not been revised but may still be a useful publication for those studying for the ISA Certified Urban Forest Professional exam. The new domains for this exam are available here.

ISA has begun the multi-year process for a study guide for the ISA Certified Urban Forest Professional exam but does not anticipate a print date prior to 2027.

Any educational or preparatory material, whether published by ISA or not, should NOT be considered the sole source of information for an ISA certification examination. This publication and the ISA certification program exams are developed through separate processes and entities.

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Reviews

  • 2/9/2025 8:04:10 PM
    I had the same issue as many others here; the book immediately fell apart. I had to buy special glue to repair it. Past the book's structural issues, I find it to be intensely dry, repetitive, verbose, and outdated. The proofreader did a poor job of screening out redundancies in sections where the author will make the same point, just paragraphs apart. The newest references in this book are 20 years old and often older. They don't even reference TRAQ under the risk management section of the book because the qualification wasn't even conceived at the time of publishing. This book deserves a rewrite to accompany the update in the test and certification title. Also for this price point, it is unacceptable that this book is sold in black and white. Its lack of color makes this already dry book utterly mind-numbing.
  • 1/5/2025 1:25:31 PM
    The binding on this book is terrible. I opened it once and the pages started falling out. For the price I expected a book that could be used for years as a reference. I am really dissapointed.
  • 12/9/2024 2:04:06 PM
    The pages of the book came off after my first read. i lost pages and now im down 3 chapters and my exam is in 2 weeks. dont buy it if you travel
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  • 7/30/2022 11:49:40 AM
    This book was well written and hopefully will help me pass my test. The book fell apart when I opened it. Whatever company bound the book did a terrible job so hopefully you're not taking the book with you anywhere because it's a nightmare if you study on the go.