By city code, Lewiston’s Urban Forestry strives to provide residents with a diverse, healthy, aesthetically pleasing, and hazard free urban forest by managing existing trees, planting new trees, and by teaching the value of trees.

Beside beauty, trees provide economic benefits many times their cost including improving air quality through oxygen production; mitigation of global warming by sequestering carbon and pollutants; reducing storm water flows by trapping rain in leafy canopies; and their shade reduces the heat island effect caused by hardscapes and reduces energy consumption.

Classes in the Landscaping with Trees series are open to the general public with an interest in tree care, arboriculture, and urban forestry as well as practicing arborists and green industry workers. Participants can register for the entire series or specific classes. The cost of attending individual classes is $10 per person with the option paying by February 4 or at the door. Topics that may be of particular interest to the general public and homeowners are noted below with **
Presentations will follow the International Society of Arboriculture’s Arborist Certification Study Guide to provide interested participants with the knowledge needed to become licensed through the ISA as Certified Arborists upon successful completion of the ISA arborist certification exam*. The cost of attendance for the entire series is $99.95 and includes the Arborists’ Certification Study Guide or $40 without the study guide. Payment is due by February 4.

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