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2025 Western Colorado Community Forestry Conference - October 16th, 2025
32nd Western Colorado Community Forestry Conference
CSU Western Campus
3170 B ½ Road, Grand Junction, CO
October 16, 2025 / 9am – 4pm
$30 for in-person attendees (includes lunch)
$15 for hybrid
NO PAYMENT INFO IS COLLECTED THROUGH THE REGISTRATION PAGE.
**YOU MUST CHECK OUT YOUR ‘CART’ AFTER REGISTERING**
REGISTRANTS WILL BE EMAILED INSTRUCTIONS ON SUBMITTING CREDIT CARD PAYMENT.
HYBRID ATTENDEES WILL RECEIVE A ZOOM LINK AFTER PAYMENT IS RECEIVED.
Can only register 3 people per registration form. If more than 3 people are attending in your group, complete the number of forms needed to accommodate. I will send on payment request link to the primary email address provided.
Presentations include:
Topic TBD
Melissa Schreiner – Tri-River Area Extension, Entomologist
The 2026 Z133 Standard: Words to Live By
Dr. John Ball – Professor, South Dakota State University, Extension Forestry Specialist and South Dakota Department of Agriculture Forest Health Specialist
The new Z133 Safety Standard for Arboricultural Operations will be out soon. This presentation will cover the key revisions to the standard. It will also cover the incidents that may occurred if the standard is not followed!
UPDATE: Sustaining urban trees and forests amid a changing climate
Dr. Jonathan Martin – Colorado State University, Scientist with the Dept. of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
Urban forests are under pressure—from pests, pathogens, and climate challenges—making strategic species selection more critical than ever. Physiological testing provides rapid, evidence-based means to inform tree selection. We will examine how cold hardiness test results help differentiate species to support resilient, diverse urban forest planning. This is an update from the research shared at last year’s meeting.
Sex and the Street Tree
Dr. John Ball – Professor, South Dakota State University, Extension Forestry Specialist and South Dakota Department of Agriculture Forest Health Specialist
We tend to plant “seedless” cultivars in the community forest but what makes these trees seedless and why do they often still produce seed? This presentation will cover the sex lives of our shade and ornamental trees, why we plant seedless cultivars, and most important the many reasons - from switching sex to rootstock escapes - that explain why these cultivars may still produce seed!
Takeaway knowledge from ISA Prescriptive Pruning class
Allison Serafin Steere – CTC and Carl Meinecke – Town of Carbondale, Town Arborist
These Certified Arborists attended the ISA-RM chapter training on Prescriptive Pruning. They will discuss what they learned from the training, what the biggest takeaways were, and what practices and procedures arborists could use when writing prescriptions now. Optional outdoor session.
Community Tree Diversity: Its Genera, not Species
Dr. John Ball – Professor, South Dakota State University, Extension Forestry Specialist and South Dakota Department of Agriculture Forest Health Specialist
We have a long alphabet of lethal threat to our community forests from ALB, DED, EAB and PWD, but what do these threats have in common and what can we do to make our community forest more resilient to future threats? This presentation will be 30,000 feet and 40 million years look at the association of lethal pests of trees and genera and how we should be diversifying our forests.
5-6* CEUs will be available
QUESTIONS? email Kamie.Long@colostate.edu or call 970-495-2206
*CEUs pending approval
32nd Western Colorado Community Forestry Conference
CSU Western Campus
3170 B ½ Road, Grand Junction, CO
October 16, 2025 / 9am – 4pm
$30 for in-person attendees (includes lunch)
$15 for hybrid
NO PAYMENT INFO IS COLLECTED THROUGH THE REGISTRATION PAGE.
**YOU MUST CHECK OUT YOUR ‘CART’ AFTER REGISTERING**
REGISTRANTS WILL BE EMAILED INSTRUCTIONS ON SUBMITTING CREDIT CARD PAYMENT.
HYBRID ATTENDEES WILL RECEIVE A ZOOM LINK AFTER PAYMENT IS RECEIVED.
Can only register 3 people per registration form. If more than 3 people are attending in your group, complete the number of forms needed to accommodate. I will send on payment request link to the primary email address provided.
Presentations include:
Topic TBD
Melissa Schreiner – Tri-River Area Extension, Entomologist
The 2026 Z133 Standard: Words to Live By
Dr. John Ball – Professor, South Dakota State University, Extension Forestry Specialist and South Dakota Department of Agriculture Forest Health Specialist
The new Z133 Safety Standard for Arboricultural Operations will be out soon. This presentation will cover the key revisions to the standard. It will also cover the incidents that may occurred if the standard is not followed!
UPDATE: Sustaining urban trees and forests amid a changing climate
Dr. Jonathan Martin – Colorado State University, Scientist with the Dept. of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
Urban forests are under pressure—from pests, pathogens, and climate challenges—making strategic species selection more critical than ever. Physiological testing provides rapid, evidence-based means to inform tree selection. We will examine how cold hardiness test results help differentiate species to support resilient, diverse urban forest planning. This is an update from the research shared at last year’s meeting.
Sex and the Street Tree
Dr. John Ball – Professor, South Dakota State University, Extension Forestry Specialist and South Dakota Department of Agriculture Forest Health Specialist
We tend to plant “seedless” cultivars in the community forest but what makes these trees seedless and why do they often still produce seed? This presentation will cover the sex lives of our shade and ornamental trees, why we plant seedless cultivars, and most important the many reasons - from switching sex to rootstock escapes - that explain why these cultivars may still produce seed!
Takeaway knowledge from ISA Prescriptive Pruning class
Allison Serafin Steere – CTC and Carl Meinecke – Town of Carbondale, Town Arborist
These Certified Arborists attended the ISA-RM chapter training on Prescriptive Pruning. They will discuss what they learned from the training, what the biggest takeaways were, and what practices and procedures arborists could use when writing prescriptions now. Optional outdoor session.
Community Tree Diversity: Its Genera, not Species
Dr. John Ball – Professor, South Dakota State University, Extension Forestry Specialist and South Dakota Department of Agriculture Forest Health Specialist
We have a long alphabet of lethal threat to our community forests from ALB, DED, EAB and PWD, but what do these threats have in common and what can we do to make our community forest more resilient to future threats? This presentation will be 30,000 feet and 40 million years look at the association of lethal pests of trees and genera and how we should be diversifying our forests.
5-6* CEUs will be available
QUESTIONS? email Kamie.Long@colostate.edu or call 970-495-2206
*CEUs pending approval