SMAcks of a Great Day Out!
Our Professional Affiliate Day in Toronto
Story and Photos by Ian McDermott, Executive Director, ISA United Kingdom & Ireland Chapter
For me, one of the absolute
essentials when attending the yearly ISA annual
international conference is to make it to the SMA
Professional Affiliate (PA) Day. It is consistently
inspirational to meet municipal arborists from
around the world and hear how they deal with the
same old problems we all endure when managing
the interface between people and trees!
Toronto Urban Forestry Planner Peter Simon (left) and Landscape
Architect Jim Urban led the SMA PA Day tour in Toronto.
I've only missed one SMA tour in the last few
years and that was because it was fully booked
up, which certainly shows that I am not the
only one who esteems these tours. Our tour on
August 7, 2013 was longer than usual because
we were visiting the major metropolis of Toronto
where there is so much interesting work being
Sugar Beach on Toronto's waterfront was one of three projects on the tour using new construction techniques to provide trees with sufficient quality and quantity of soil for successful tree growth.
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City Trees
