Up By Roots: Healthy Soils and Trees in the Built Environment - Workshop - Presented by James Urban

Up By Roots is a one-day workshop that highlights the principles of soil science and their use in facilitating the growth of healthy trees and developing water-efficient landscapes. This workshop includes lectures and field worki ntended to introduce the underlying scientific principles guiding tree biology and soil-water relations. It is only through a healthy respect for these guiding principles that one can effectively design, install, and manage soils and trees in the urban landscape.

James Urban brings his new book, Up By Roots, to life with a day of hands-on instruction highlighting key soil and site assessment techniques. These skills are critical for arborists, landscape architects, architects, planners, and urban foresters who design, specify, install, or manage trees in the built environment.  James Urban, FASLA and ISA member, is a landscape architect with more than 30 years of experience in the field of urban development. Over the past three decades, Jim has routinely dealt with the challenge of planting trees in difficult urban sites. Since 1982, he has researched and tested various methods of tree installation in the urban environment. Jim has developed applications for practicing arborists and landscape architects that include the testing of new urban tree systems and planting concepts, developing new approaches to landscape architectural design, and detailing and specifications in the area of trees and urban soils.

HOUSTON: February 4, 2010 (8:30am-5pm)- SIGN UP NOW

DALLAS/FORT WORTH: April 6, 2010 -SIGN UP NOW

AUSTIN: April 8, 2010- SIGN UP NOW 

Registration:
Registration fee includes workshop and a box lunch*. Participants have the opportunity to purchase a copy of Urban’s Up by Roots: Healthy Soils and Trees in the Built Environment with their registration at a discounted price. Books will be picked up on the day of the workshop.

Registration discounts are available for both American Society of Landscape Architects and International Society of Arboriculture members.

Workshop Pricing (register 14 days prior to event)
• Member purchasing book $245
• Member no book purchase $185
• Non-member purchasing book $265
• Non-member no book purchase $195
• Student purchasing book $110
• Student no book purchase $50

LATE registration pricing (member or non-member)
• with book purchase $290
• without book purchase $220

For workshop and registration information, visit:
http://www.isa-arbor.com/conference/regionalMeetings.aspx