This no-cost one-day training course is offered in partnership between ISA Ontario, OCAA, and The Career Foundation.
Funding is provided by MLITSD through the Skills Development Fund.
This course is presented as an extension of the Arborist Ground Worker Training Program.
Date: December 05, 2025 – 8:00am to 4:00pm –
Location: Hylands Golf Club, 2101 Alert Road, Ottawa ON
Arborists are tasked with dealing with trees that have storm damage. Should the tree be removed, losing decades of growth and its ability to store carbon and release oxygen, or be pruned to remain in the landscape? How does an arborist make this important decision correctly, tree after tree? If a tree is to be saved, what pruning should be done? This course is designed to help the arborist make important pruning and removal decisions, to avoid clear-cutting of essential trees while improving site safety and setting trees up for future continued growth.
Topics to be Covered include: 1. Tree Biomechanics and Storm Response; 2. Pruning for Risk Reduction; 3. Species-Specific Considerations in Ontario; 4. Post-Storm Assessment & Remedial Pruning; 5. Tools, Techniques, and Technology; 6. Long-Term Tree Preservation Strategies.
Instructors: Jennifer Carroll and Clinton Harper
Please note that only 24 seats are available in the course. We are monitoring registration closely, and will close registration to the course once maximum participation has been reached. If you register for a course that is full before it has been removed from the page, we will notify you via email and you will be contacted in the event that another participant cancels their enrollment. Please also note that, in order to ensure fairness, we are currently limiting registration to 5 participants per company for each course.
Lunch will be provided and CEUs are available.