Day 1 - September 6, 2024 Friday
Session 1 - 8:30am - 4:45pm
Kathy Roberts
Recertification Credits - 6a - 6.75 credits 2 - 2.25 credits
3a - 2.75 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 1 - September 9, 2024 Monday
Session 2 - 8:30am - 4:45pm
Kathy Roberts
Recertification Credits - 3a, 3b - 6.75 credits each
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 2 - September 10, 2024 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
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Day 3 - September 11, 2024 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
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Day 4 - September 12, 2024 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
