Tree ID for CBLPs

REGISTRATION HAS CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT.  To be placed on a waiting list, please contact beth@cblpro.org

The morning is spent in the classroom working on our tree ID skills. We’ll go outdoors in the afternoon, honing our ID skills in lovely Sandy Spring.

We’ll use a combination of lecture, individual study, and team activities to build our powers of observation and comparison, on fresh samples of tree twigs and leaves. This is a beginners’ class, designed to help people who’ve either never studied woody plant ID, or who have studied it and it “didn’t stick,” or those who would like a refresher.  Accordingly, we’ll limit our focus to a dozen species, but the reference book, combined with skills you acquire in class will allow you to identify the majority of Maryland’s trees.

Registration includes a copy of the reference booklet:

Watts, M. T. (1963, 1991, Rev 1998). Tree Finder: A Manual for the Identification of Trees by their Leaves.  Nature Study Guild Publishers, Rochester, NY. (ISBN 978-0912550015)

Instructor

Dr. Sara Tangren (University of Maryland Extension) is a specialist in sustainable landscaping and native plants. Sara worked for many years as a certified forest stand delineator, and has surveyed and developed conservation plans for hundreds of acres of Maryland forest. She sits on the advisory board of the University of Maryland Arboretum & Botanical Garden.

4.5 CBLP CEUs