Below is a list of pruning training videos compiled by our Urban Forestry Regional Coordinators.

Trees

• Iowa’s new pruning videos – parts 1-3, 10 minutes total
• Pruning to ANSI A300 on “Urban Forestry Today (12-12-19)” by Ed Gilman, 60 minutes
• Pruning Young Trees for Structure and Form by Penn State Extension Urban Forestry Educator Vincent Cotrone, 70 minutes
• Let’s Learn Advanced Tree Pruning with Urban Forestry Portland Parks and Recreation

Shrubs

• Prairie Yard & Garden | Pruning Shrubs | Season 34 | Episode 2 by Gary Johnson, University of Minnesota, 30 minutes
• Pruning Deciduous Shrubs University of Illinois Extension, PowerPoint only (no demonstration), 70 minutes
• PlantTalk: Pruning Shrubs Both renewal and rejuvenation pruning demonstrations, short and succinct, 2.5 minutes
• Renewal Pruning Overgrown Shrubs by Melinda Myers, 1-minute demonstration
• How to Prune a Shrub – YouTubeOnsite demo focused on dogwood and other multi-cane shrubs from Utah State University, 5 minutes

CODIT (Compartmentalization of Decay/Damage in Trees)

• Let’s Learn Advanced Tree Pruning with Urban Forestry (Also listed under pruning above.) Portland Parks and Recreation
• Landscape Training – Compartmentalization of Decay in Trees 15 minutes (First half is CODIT)
• Tree Compartmentalization CODIT pruning in the last third, 40 minutes

The UW Plant Disease Diagnostics Clinic sponsors a Zoom presentation on a plant disease-related topic each month in 2023. To register for one or more of the talks, CLICK HERE.

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