2024 Tree Identification Workshop
August 20, 2024 10:00AM - 12:45PM Optional lab walks are August 26th and August 28th
Registration Deadline: August 18, 2024 - 11:45PM
Online webinar with optional lab walks in Kent and Ottawa Counties
Contact: Diane Brady at bradydi1@msu.edu
Gain Confidence in Tree ID!!!
With so many different species in Michigan, identifying trees can certainly be challenging. In this introductory tree identification webinar, we will give you the tools to help you start to identify the trees growing along your streets and in your parks and forests. You'll start looking at trees in new ways and learn about additional resources to help identify the trees around you.
*Part 1 - Live Webinar via Zoom
Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024
10 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. ET
*Part 2 - Optional small-group walking labs
(Choose your walking tour preference at time of webinar registration)
Walking Lab Locations:
Kent County
Monday, Aug. 26
3 - 4:30 p.m. ET
MSU Extension office
775 Ball NE
Grand Rapids, MI
or
Ottawa County
Wednesday, Aug. 28
6 - 7:30 p.m. ET
Windmill Island Gardens
1 Lincoln Ave.
Holland, MI
*Part 1 - Webinar via Zoom
Learning woody plants' unique family characteristics will provide you with easy-to-remember techniques that you can apply when identifying trees and woody plants. Whether viewing majestic trees or smaller specimens, you will learn some easy clues to help you identify many types of common woody plants. And, by increasing your knowledge of terminology and basic traits for each genus, it becomes more straightforward for easy and accurate identification. Using recorded videos of tree specimens, MSU Extension Senior Horticulture Educator (Retired), Rebecca Finneran will demonstrate the entire process of identification from beginning to end. And, all registrants will receive access to the MSU Extension bulletin "Identifying Trees of Michigan".
If you cannot attend the webinar, a webinar recording will be made available to you at a later date.
*Part 2 - Optional small group lab walks - You must attend the Aug. 20th webinar in order to attend a lab walk.
You may choose to attend a small group lab walk in the Grand Ideas Garden in Kent County led by Rebecca Finneran, or at Windmill Island Gardens in Ottawa County led by MSU Extension Horticulture Educator, Deanna Hedlund. Attending an optional lab walk (in Kent or Ottawa County) will allow you to apply the practical knowledge from the webinar and become familiar with basic plant traits to assist the process of tree identification.
Certified/Re-certified MSU Extension Master Gardener attendees will earn 2.5 continuing education hours for the webinar and 1.3 hours for the lab walk.
Registration deadline: Aug. 18, 2024, or when the workshop or lab is full.
Registration for this event has closed.
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