VTA Seminar for Owners of Wood and Trees

What does VTA mean, of what avail is it for the owner of wood and trees?

At the VTA basics seminar

In the VTA basics seminar VTA is the abbreviation of 'visual tree assessment'. For owners of wood, VTA is especially interesting concerning the legal duty to maintain safety of trees at traffic routes, for example at the accomplishment of the annual inspection walkway of fringe trees at public roads. But also for square owners, all types of tree inspectors and generally all who are interested in trees, some basic knowledge about VTA is extremely helpful.

In the main part the class shall achieve that on the one hand yet overlooked flaws are recognized and appropiate conclusions are drawn; on the other hand, not every tree yet renowed as perculiar does have to be chopped down preventively by a long shot. The seminar beginning at 9:00 am will first defer to the anatomy of trees and the structure of wood but conveyance of knowledge about the differences in the formation of reaction wood of hardwood in contrast to conifers is also important.

Beside the kinds of fail, of course the most crucial attributes of the paralanguage of the trees are presented: So, the meanings of increment stripes, bark buckling, ribs or branch-shedding collars are explained, but also the differences between compression- and tension fork, whats a hazard-beam, a spiral crack or a shear crack, etc. etc.

Naturally there shall remain enough time for discussions and queries, eventually one or two bring concrete observations!

Price information

Participation at the VTA basics seminar costs at meeting in Leipheim 100 €, in Freising 125 € (for students 100 €) (all prices net).