AN INTRODUCTION TO URBAN FORESTRY Monday – August 27, 2018

Monday – August 27, 2018

AN INTRODUCTION TO URBAN FORESTRY

· 7:00 PM - Program by Mike Sills – Dallas Region Urban Forester; Texas A&M Forest Service

Location: First United Methodist Church
505 W. Marvin Ave., Waxahachie, TX
Family Life Center - Gathering Room

Indian Trail Chapter, Texas Master Naturalist Program

Mike Sills loves the outdoors, airplanes, cool trucks and his wife, Ginny. A graduate of Stephen F. Austin State University with a Bachelors of Science in Forestry, his love for nature began with family camp outs and the Boy Scouts, at which he achieved Eagle Scout. He has been an ISA Certified Arborist since 1997.

Mike began his forestry career in Louisiana and after moving back to Dallas, he worked his way up to General Foreman with Asplundh Tree Expert Company, where he worked for eight years. His experience also includes that of an Industrial Refrigeration Engineer with Emergency Ice Inc. for eight years, all the while, keeping up his ISA Certified Arborist status and operating a small tree service. Maintaining his ISA credentials paid off in December 2016 when he was hired by the Texas A&M Forest Service as Regional Urban Forester, Dallas Region.

Indian Trail Chapter is part of the statewide Texas Master Naturalist Volunteer Program of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department and the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.

The Mission …to develop a corps of well-informed volunteers to provide education, outreach,
and service dedicated to the beneficial management of natural resources and natural areas
within their communities for the State of Texas.

This program is part of a series of “no cost” “open to the public” Master Naturalist programs offered the fourth Monday (generally) of each month, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Please bring a friend! For more information, please call the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension at 972-825-5175 or email: information@itmnc.com

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