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  • Free ISA CEUs: Week of February 23, 2026

    This week has been full of travel: from the mountains of New Mexico, across small towns on local backroads, to Texas Hill Country.

    Orion offered familiar guidance through new locales and greeted me every evening, while camping or in a bunkhouse. An old friend, Southern Live Oak (Quercus virginiana) was the star at the Women’s Tree Climbing Workshop in Wimberly.

    If you’re wanting to “clip into” tree climbing or want to support an organization that does, we highly recommend WTCW. The environment was incredibly supportive, safety-focused and offered representation within arboriculture and outside of the profession.

    Next week, we’ll be in Utah speaking in Day 2 of the Rare Plant Meeting, hosted by the Utah Native Plant Society, Red Butte Garden and many other organizations that support the people and plants of Utah.

    We only have availability for consultations in Utah and Salt Lake Counties on March 2, so book ASAP to get on our calendar.

    While we did earn CEUs at WTCW (and you can too!) no live webinars for free ISA CEU training opportunities are available this week.

    Forestry Webinars

    The Webinar Portal, a product of Southern Regional Extension Forestry (SREF) and winner of the 2011 USDA Forest Service’s Two Chiefs’ Partnership Award, is a “multi discipline” web platform used to promote and deliver live and on-demand virtual events and webinars focused on forestry, agriculture, conservation, climate science and other natural resource disciplines.

    Watch Here

    TreeStuff Webinars on YouTube

    Watch a video and pass the quiz to qualify for free ISA CEUs.

    Watch Here

    Tree Care Industry Association (TCIA)

    Introduction to Arboriculture Safety (1.25 ISA CEUs)

    In this program, you will learn about general tree care safety so that you can avoid accidents while working in the field.

    Susan Harwood Grant program OSHA Trainings (Up to 5 ISA CEUs)

    Remember, you can always ask your local ISA chapter if your event qualifies for CEUs.

    If your organization is hosting a free in-person or virtual ISA CEU opportunity, please reach out to so we can share it!

    Subscribe to continue to receive free notifications for no-cost ISA CEU events.

  • Free ISA CEUs: Week of February 16, 2026

    Free ISA CEUs: Week of February 16, 2026

    We’ve been traveling through four different states over the last 7 days and helping folks with their trees.

    We are headed to Texas for the Women’s Tree Climbing Workshop, then on to Utah to present at the UNPS Rare Plant Meeting!

    We’ll be booking folks on our trip. Contact us for more details if you’re interested in booking an appointment.

    There is one live webinar for free ISA CEU training opportunities available this week.

    Thursday, February 19th

    Futureproof the Workforce @ 10am-11am Mountain

    We’ll learn how our work advocating and working for tree equity aligns with our inherit our roles in workforce development. Both of these components are equally important and without future stewards our initiatives may be lost.

    Register Here

    Forestry Webinars

    The Webinar Portal, a product of Southern Regional Extension Forestry (SREF) and winner of the 2011 USDA Forest Service’s Two Chiefs’ Partnership Award, is a “multi discipline” web platform used to promote and deliver live and on-demand virtual events and webinars focused on forestry, agriculture, conservation, climate science and other natural resource disciplines.

    Watch Here

    TreeStuff Webinars on YouTube

    Watch a video and pass the quiz to qualify for free ISA CEUs.

    Watch Here

    Tree Care Industry Association (TCIA)

    Introduction to Arboriculture Safety (1.25 ISA CEUs)

    In this program, you will learn about general tree care safety so that you can avoid accidents while working in the field.

    Susan Harwood Grant program OSHA Trainings (Up to 5 ISA CEUs)

    Remember, you can always ask your local ISA chapter if your event qualifies for CEUs.

    If your organization is hosting a free in-person or virtual ISA CEU opportunity, please reach out to so we can share it!

    Subscribe to continue to receive free notifications for no-cost ISA CEU events.

  • Free ISA CEUs: Week of February 2, 2026

    Free ISA CEUs: Week of February 2, 2026

    We will be traveling through six different states (NM, AZ, NV, UT, CO and TX) in February and we’ll be booking folks along the way! Contact us for more details if you’re interested in booking an appointment.

    There is one live webinar for free ISA CEU training opportunities available this week.

    Wednesday, February 4th

    The Tree Care Manual @ 11am-1pm Mountain

    Arboricultural Association Wednesday Webinar Series presents The Tree Care Manual with Tony Kirkham and Kenton Rogers 

    Register Here

    Forestry Webinars

    The Webinar Portal, a product of Southern Regional Extension Forestry (SREF) and winner of the 2011 USDA Forest Service’s Two Chiefs’ Partnership Award, is a “multi discipline” web platform used to promote and deliver live and on-demand virtual events and webinars focused on forestry, agriculture, conservation, climate science and other natural resource disciplines.

    Watch Here

    TreeStuff Webinars on YouTube

    Watch a video and pass the quiz to qualify for free ISA CEUs.

    Watch Here

    Tree Care Industry Association (TCIA)

    Introduction to Arboriculture Safety (1.25 ISA CEUs)

    In this program, you will learn about general tree care safety so that you can avoid accidents while working in the field.

    Susan Harwood Grant program OSHA Trainings (Up to 5 ISA CEUs)

    Remember, you can always ask your local ISA chapter if your event qualifies for CEUs.

    If your organization is hosting a free in-person or virtual ISA CEU opportunity, please reach out to so we can share it!

    Subscribe to continue to receive free notifications for no-cost ISA CEU events.

  • Free ISA CEUs: Week of January 26, 2026

    Free ISA CEUs: Week of January 26, 2026

    Six different states (NM, AZ, NV, UT, CO and TX) are eligible to receive discounted services in February:

    To reserve discounted pricing, book before January 31.

    There is one live webinar for free ISA CEU training opportunities available this week.

    Wednesday, January 21st

    Bats & Trees, @ 11:00am – 1:00pm Mountain

    Arboricultural Association Wednesday Webinar Series presents Bats & Trees with Jim Mullholland. 14 of the UK’s bat species live in trees, some living in them year-round. Jim will talk about: which bats use trees and how the ecology of different bat species which tree features provide habitat for bats threats to bat populations and what we can do to help Jim is an ecologist and arborist specialising in bats & veteran trees. Jim’s current research interests include; improving how we survey trees for bats and creating artificial bat roosts in trees.  

    Register Here

    Forestry Webinars

    The Webinar Portal, a product of Southern Regional Extension Forestry (SREF) and winner of the 2011 USDA Forest Service’s Two Chiefs’ Partnership Award, is a “multi discipline” web platform used to promote and deliver live and on-demand virtual events and webinars focused on forestry, agriculture, conservation, climate science and other natural resource disciplines.

    Watch Here

    TreeStuff Webinars on YouTube

    Watch a video and pass the quiz to qualify for free ISA CEUs.

    Watch Here

    Tree Care Industry Association (TCIA)

    Introduction to Arboriculture Safety (1.25 ISA CEUs)

    In this program, you will learn about general tree care safety so that you can avoid accidents while working in the field.

    Susan Harwood Grant program OSHA Trainings (Up to 5 ISA CEUs)

    Remember, you can always ask your local ISA chapter if your event qualifies for CEUs.

    If your organization is hosting a free in-person or virtual ISA CEU opportunity, please reach out to so we can share it!

    Subscribe to continue to receive free notifications for no-cost ISA CEU events.

  • From the Archives: Intro to Utah Plant Identification

    From the Archives: Intro to Utah Plant Identification

    Back in 2020, a representative from the Utah State University Sustainability Extension Permaculture Initiative asked us to present as part of their online educational series.

    We chatted about what they were looking for in a successful presentation and what skills their audience wanted to develop. Quickly, we decided that plant identification was a serious topic of interest.

    Our presentation had the highest turnout of any online class that year. There were over 800 people interested in the event and we had at least 99 people attend the meeting virtually.

    Here’s a screenshot of the 2020 Impact Report from USU Sustainability Permaculture Initative about the presentation:

    Unfortunately, we weren’t able to find any video of the live presentation. However, we were able to find the event page and the associated attendance data.

    At the beginning, we had dozens of folks that were interested, but the week before the presentation, we had hundreds of people interested daily.

    After the webinar, we had folks reaching out to us for about a year congratulating us on a wonderful program. It lead to many new partnerships across Utah, including the Utah Public Archaeology Network.

    Now available (with minimal updates) here are the slides from over 5 years ago.

    Introduction to Utah Plant IdentificationDownload

    We had a great time presenting these resources and interacting with the audience. It was the largest online group we’ve presented in front of and we’d like to beat that record!

    If you’re interested in hosting a successful webinar or presentation, schedule a meeting with us.

    We’re committed to providing comprehensive workforce development programming for your community.

    We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

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