I am on the Board of Directors for Association of Montana Turf and Ornamental Professionals (AMTOP). Our members are a variety of professionals from Montana. The mixture comprises of greens industry, grounds maintenance, arborists, schools, anyone involved with turf and ornamentals. There is two other professional organizations in Montana. These are Peaks to Prairies Golf Course Superintendents Association and Montana Nurserymens Association. Because of the vast size of Montana and low population, we try to cater to all for necessary continuing education credits and pesticide application credits. There is 45 ISA Certified Arborists in Montana. I am interested in obtaining information of quality educational speakers for arboriculture training that would be ISA compatible. I am also interested in persons that could discuss landscape maintenance issues and techniques. Our conference is a two day affair whereas diversity in topics is interested. Any suggestions would be appreciated. In the past 8 years or so, I have attended seminars taught by Dr. Shigo, Dr John Ball-SDSU, Alex Bildeau of Tilton Equipment, Ken Palmer and Rip Tompkins, Mark Duntemann, amongst others. thank you.

Reply to post by Gerald, on March 02, 2000 at 15:07:55:

Gerald,

I would be happy to speak to your groups. I am currently the Urban Forstry Intructor at MSU-Bottineau in North Dakota. Also teach the turf and sports turf classes.
My current project is putting my program on-line to make it more accessible to our clients here in the wide open spaces.
If you wish you can view my webpage which should be attached to this post. It is on my personal PC, so if it happens to be down, just drop an e-mail and I'll restart it.
Call or e-mail me if you have further questions.

Bob Underwood, Associate Professor of Urban Forestry, MSU-B

Reply to post by Bob Underwood, on March 02, 2000 at 15:07:55:

Thank you for responding. I will be contacting you for more information. I tried to enter your home page but was unable to enter. I will try again later. I am curious if you instruct landscape management also? Visit with you soon. Gerald