4 HOURS: FOREST PEST CONTROL

Description

This course is designed to allow Massachusetts Commercial Applicators who are already certified to earn 4 Recertification credits in Categories 35: Forest, Core, or Dealer.

Topics covered include: Bark beetles, terminal, root, and shoot-infesting pests, cone and seed feeders, sucking insects, vertebrate pests, stress factors and declines, root and butt rots and wood decay, cankers, foliage diseases, and vascular wilts, weeds in forest pest control, ipm in silviculture, federal laws, toxicity of pesticides, and ecological concerns.

This course has been designed in a Distance Learning format and approved by the MDAR as a recertification course. NOTE: The MDAR allows you to receive up to 50% of your total credits in a distance learning format each recertification cycle. Additionally, you cannot repeat the same course within a 12 month period. PESTED updates its courses annually. If you are not sure if you have taken this course, please call PESTED and we will check your account history. This course is online, narrated, and self-paced, with high quality images of insect and animal species as well as equipment.

Students will be able to print their certificate after sending their completion e-mail at the end of the course. Students will be able to print their certificates up until December 31st. If you need a certificate for courses taken in a previous cycle please call or e-mail us. If we do not receive the completion e-mail after course completion your credits will not be reported to the state.