30 Hour Course
February 21, 24 - 28 2025
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30 Hour Certification Program for Categories
3A February 21, 25 - 28, 2025 6A February 24 - 28, 2025
Lake Forest Sportsman Club 9403 Bear Springs Road Brewerton, NY 13029
Course Fee - $585.00 ($635.00 for on site registration) Credit Card $607.00 thru PayPal
NOTE: A Core Manual is required for 30 hour certification.
A Category Manual will also be required for the course.
Core and category manuals can be purchased through Cornell's Website.
They are NEEDED to take the certification exam!
GET THEM EARLY!
Manuals will not be available at the time of registration!!
Recertification Credits Available for
2, 3a, 3b, 6a, 25
Registration Fee for those signing in for recertification credits -
$175.00 per day pre-registration ($190.00 at the door)
Credit Card $182 per day pre-registration
Sign In - 8:00am - 8:30am
Class - 8:30am - 4:45pm (except Friday ends at 12:00pm)
Friday, 1:00pm - 4:30pm
No Core exam and one category exam will be given by NYSDEC unless there are at least 10 people taking the course
A $100.00 EXAM FEE, payable on
Checks for exam MUST be made out to "NYSDEC".
______________________________________________________________ Day 1 - February 21, 2025 Friday
Session 1 - 8:30am - 4:45pm
Kathy Roberts
Recertification Credits - 3a, 3b - 6.75 credits 2, 6a - 2.00 credits each 25 - 4.75 Credits Integrated Pest Management
Definition of IPM, Principles of IPM, Pest Thresholds, Growing Degree Days, Plant Phenological Indicators, Economic Considerations, Management, Making Decisions, Movement Towards Biological Control
Care of Turfgrass
Turfgrass Disorders - Pest and Non-Pest, Requirements for Healthy Turf,
Soil Texture, Nutrients, Establishing Turf and Maintaining It Weed Identification and Control Identification of Broadleaf and Grassy Weeds Broadleaf Weeds versus Grassy Weeds Life Cycles, Annual Bluegrass, Black Medic, Broadleaf Plaintain, Chickweed, Dandelion, Field Bindweed, Ground Ivy, Smooth Crabgrass, Large Crabgrass, Poison Ivy, Yellow Foxtail, Nutsedges, Silver Crabgrass, Nimblewill, Creeping Bentgrass, Orchardgrass, Quackgrass, Tall Fescue Turfgrass Diseases Diagnosis, Control Anthracnose Foliar Blight, Brown Patch, Damping-off Diseases, Dollar Spot, Fairy Ring, Gray Snow Mold, Leaf Spot and Melting-Out Diseases, Necrotic Ring Spot, Pink Snow Mold, Fusarium Patch, Powdery Mildew, Pythium Blight, Red Thread and Pink Patch, Rust, Slime Molds, Summer Patch, Take-All Patch, Yellow Patch Turfgrass Pest Identification, Damage, Control Root Feeders - May/June Beetles, Northern Masked Chafers, Black
Turfgrass Ataenius, Green June Beetles, Japanese Beetles, False
Japanese Beetles, Oriental Beetles, Bluegrass Billbugs
Blade Defoliators - Sod Webworm, Cutworms, Armyworms, Fall
Armyworms Blade Sucking - Leafhoppers, Aphids Non Damaging Lawn Pest - Chinch Bugs, False Chinch Bugs, Earthworms, Jumping WormsOrnamental Pest Diseases Identification, Life Cycle, Control Apple Scab, Gymnosporangium Rust, Cedar Rust Diseases, Powdery Mildews, Sooty Molds, Anthracnose Diseases, Tar Spot, Vascular Wilts, Dutch Elm Disease, Bacterial Leaf Scorch, Ash Yellows, Root Rot of Rhododendron, Boxwood Blight Environmental Factors Favoring Disease
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Day 1 - February 24, 2025 Monday Session 2 - 8:30am - 4:45pm Kathy Roberts Recertification Credits - 2 - 5.75 credits 3a - 6.25 credits 6a - 6.75 credits
Protecting Water From Pesticide Contamination Hydrologic Cycle, Watershed, Groundwater, Water Contaminants, Pesticide Fates, Soil Characteristics, Application Site Characteristics, Preventing Water Contamination Insecticide Resistance: Causes and Action What Causes Insecticide Resistance, Management, Labels Use In Herbicide Rotation Pesticide Application Equipment Components of Pesticide Application Equipment, Sprayers Used in Maintenance, Cleaning Equipment Highway Rights-of-Way Vegetation Management Problems and Precautions, Non-Selective Vegetation Control, Tree and Shrub Management. Broadleaf Weed Control and Grass Growth Suppression Electric Powerline and Pipeline Vegetation Management Ground Application and Methods, Herbicides Used, Aerial Applications Railroad Vegetation Management Railroad Areas Requiring Vegetation Management, Pesticide Record Keeping, Management Program Pest Plants of Rights-of-Way Identifying Plants: Trees - Arrowwood, Aspen, Autumn Elaeagnus, Birch, Black Locust, Cherry, Dogwood, Northern Red Oak, Norway, Red, Sugar Maples, Slippery Elm, Staghorn Sumac, Tree of Heaven, White and Green Ash, White Oak Cone Bearing Woody Trees Shrubs, Vines and Herbaceous Plants - Cattails, Climbing Bittersweet, Crabgrass, Foxtail, Horseweed, Japanese Creeper. Kochia, Mullein, Poison Hemlock, Poison Ivy, Queen Anne's Lace, Ragweed, Sweet Clover, Thistle, Virginia Creeper, Wild Grape
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Day 2 - February 25, 2025 Tuesday
Session 3 - 8:30pm - 4:45pm
Kathy Roberts Recertification Credits - 2,3a,6a,25 - 6.75 credits each 3b - 4.50 credits
Identification, Life Cycle & Control
Spotted Lanternfly, Box Tree Moth, Elm Zigzag Sawfly, Beech Leaf Disease, European Gypsy Moth Uninvited: The Spread of Invasives Identification, Life Cycle Damage, Control Ticks Identification, Life Cycle Management East Asian, Blacklegged, American Dog Ticks Associated Diseases - Lyme, Human Babesiosis, Lyme Borreliosis Prevention, Management Invasive Plants Identification, Habitat, Biology, Ecological Threat, Control Common Buckthorn, Scotch Broom, Wild Parsnip, Garlic Mustard, Giant Hogweed, Japanese Knotweed, Japanese Stiltgrass, Swallow-worts, Mugwort, Tree of Heaven, Oriental Bittersweet, Multiflora Rose How to Prevent Movement Dangerous Travelers How roads aid in the rapid spread of invasive plants, Learning how to identify invasives, Tracking their movements. Control - Chemical, Mechanical, Biological, Prevention - Use weed free material, Revegetation with native plants, Choice of equipment used, Clean equipment, Monitor areas where equipment is kept _______________________________________ Day 3 - February 26, 2025 Wednesday
Session 4 - 8:30am - 4:45pm
Kathy Roberts
Recertification Credits - Core - 6.75 credits
Some Basics Pests Pesticides Formulations Pesticide Exposure and Risks The Toxicity of Pesticides Protecting Yourself Responding to a Pesticide Exposure Heat Stress Fate of Pesticides in the Environment Pesticides and Water Pesticide Resistance
__________________________________________________________________ Day 4 - February 27, 2025 Thursday
Session 5 - 8:30pm - 4:45pm
Kathy Roberts
Recertification Credits - Core 6.75 credits
Principles of Pest Management Federal Pesticide Laws and Regulations Pesticide Residue and Tolerance State Laws and Regulations Storing Pesticides Transporting Pesticides Pesticide Security Emergency Planning and Response Application Methods and Equipment Pesticide Drift Application Safety Day 5 - February 28, 2025 Friday
Kathy Roberts Recertification Credits - Core - 2.75 credits
Calculations for Mixing and Loading Pesticides Mixing and Loading Managing Pesticide Wastes The Pesticide Label Professional Conduct and Liability
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