What??? ISA Certification retirement

No, the emphasis is now on morphology. The idea being that, since it is an international credential, it's important for you to be able to use a dichotomous key to identify trees you may not see all the time.
 
Was that an old name? Shade tree conference era?

I get being able to learn and be diverse etc but knowing your natives and ornamentals growing there stikes me as kinda important?

"What's this native tree in my yard, here's a twig."

"I don't know. I'm just an arborist..."
 
Of course it's important, and. you won't last long in your market without being able to identify local plant material on sight. However, it's more important to be able to know how to go about properly identifying plants you're not familiar with. It also make the test more balanced and even handed. I've seen and heard of test proctors coloring way outside of the lines with foliage samples back during the time they were part of the test.
 
We used winter twig for our ID classes because, well, it was winter when we were in class! The easiest to ID was Willow since it would pretty much start leaving out the moment you brought in indoors.

The CTE license in NJ emphasizes ID. I think that is a better way of regionalizing testing.
 
Regional ID could have stayed part of the test, as I remember from the EdCom mtgs, IF enough samples and participation came in from members.

It didn't. Morphology is 'key' to know, but practical info is good too.
 
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