Arboriculture II builds on Arboriculture I. This online course concentrates on tree planting and maintenance. Through this course you will learn tree management, minimize potential long term tree problems, learn tree selection techniques, learn to strengthen and improve the health of existing trees, and improve your techniques in removing trees and stumps.

Course Aims:

• Explain how to plant a specified advanced-sized tree on a specific site.
• Explain tree injection, including the technique and applications.
• Identify situations where trees require strengthening operations to be carried out.
• Compare different ways to control roots which invade underground pipes.
• Calculate the cost of removing a specified tree.
• Determine appropriate tree species suited to a specific site visited and analysed.
• Devise a method for removing a tree, including tree felling and stump removal.
• Analyse specimens of mature trees, from different genera, to detect any patterns in problems occurring in those trees.
• Develop criteria for the establishment of a tree plantation on a specific site which addresses; site restrictions, cost and function.