The Balboa Park Conservancy is helping preserve, protect, and renew Balboa Park’s urban forest with the help of tree lovers like you.

Balboa Park’s collection of more than 15,000 trees is an extraordinary asset to our region. However, their adequate care requires dedicated support from the community. Tree Stewards are specially trained to monitor newly planted trees, general health conditions of existing trees, soil moisture surrounding new trees, including identifying irrigation needs, and possible pest infestation. The Balboa Park Conservancy proudly partners with Tree San Diego to monitor Balboa Park trees through our volunteer Balboa Park Tree Stewards program. Join our team and have another great reason to spend more time in beautiful Balboa Park!

For more information or to fill out an application, click here.

There are considerable concerns for Southern California landscapes due to the Goldspotted Oak Borer (GSOB), Invasive Shot Hole Borers/Fusarium Dieback Disease (ISHB/FD), and South American Palm Weevil (SAPW).  Register for this workshop 10/19/18 at the Point Event Center in Beautiful Mission Bay Park.  http://ucanr.edu/sites/gsobinfo/News_and_Events/Training_Events/

Utility lines around trees are a concern for every arborist, not only those who work in the utility vegetation management industry. Join us in Anaheim for a workshop educating about avoiding electrical hazards, utility pruning specifications, the human performance factors of safety, and utility tree risk management. This event is geared towards tree workers involved in both utility and private tree maintenance.   Friday September 21, 2018.  Anaheim Convention Center.  More information and register here https://wcisa.net/meeting/5699

If you think it’s been a long hot summer, your trees agree with you.

If you haven’t been providing water to them, start now! If you have been getting your trees water, keep it up! They need your help.

For more info see our page at www.sdrufc.com/treewatering

San Diego Regional Urban Forests Council Presents

AN URBAN FOREST SUMMIT FOR PUBLIC AGENCIES

October 3rd 9am to Noon War Memorial Building Room 3 3325 Zoo Park Drive San Diego Free Parking in the adjacent North Zoo Parking Lot

This is a FREE event!

This summit is designed to provide valuable management information for all of the regions public agencies in five key areas;

Climate Action Plans	Crystal Najera, Encinitas Climate Action Plan Program Administrator, will discuss the role of trees in reducing carbon emissions in the City of Encinitas
Budgets and Funding for Urban Forests	Brian Widener City of San Diego Urban Forester will discuss how agency tree maintenance is funded and unique outside of the box ways of getting tree work done as a public agency.
Pest Detection Planning	A review of the current pest concerns relating to trees for San Diego county and how to be poised to defend against future invasions by John Kabashima, MBA, Ph.D. University of California Cooperative Extension Environmental Horticulture Advisor, Emeritus
Preparing for Fires	Lynnette Short, CAL FIRE Regional Urban Forester will review common misconceptions about urban trees and fire hazards, and what we as Urban Foresters can do to optimize urban forest benefits while maintaining fire safe practices.
Preparing for water shortages	A discussion of some of the latest outlooks on water usage in California.  Additionally a review of some of the innovative ways to keep landscapes and trees thriving despite drought restrictions.

 

Morning Coffee and Pastries Provided

Please e-mail Mikepalat@aol.com to register