The New Zealand Arboricultural Association (NZAA) was created in 1989 in response to a growing demand for the formation of a national body to represent professional and non-professional people involved in New Zealand tree care.
In 1996, the NZAA joined the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) to become its 32nd Chapter.
The New Zealand Arboricultural Association is proud to foster the mission of the ISA; Through research, technology and education promote the professional practice of arboriculture and foster a greater public awareness of the benefits of trees.
13 March 2010 – Hagley Park, Christchurch
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This is your chance to meet and compete with fellow arborists, learn new techniques and see firsthand differing climbing styles. Come along to South Hagley Park, crnr Riccarton Ave/Deans Ave at 7:30a.m. and spend the day competing, socialising and networking with arborists from throughout your region and the country.
The NZAA Executive Meeting usually meets four times per year – typically mid February, mid May, mid August and at the NZAA Conference/AGM in November.
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i-Tree is a state-of-the-art, peer-reviewed software suite from the USDA Forest Service that provides urban forestry analysis and benefits assessment tools. The i-Tree Tools help communities of all sizes to strengthen their urban forest management and advocacy efforts by quantifying the structure of community trees and the environmental services that trees provide.
A series of seminars about i-Tree are running throughout Australia and New Zealand in March 2010.
Tree climbers from the Asia-Pacific region go head-to-head in the tree climbing event that determines the bragging rights for the pacific region.
The top men and women tree climbers from each country challenge each other in a “Masters Challenge” event, with the top male and female individuals getting a bonus spot in competing at the World event – the ISA’s ITCC.
New Zealand Arboricultural Association, in conjunction with STIHL, is running a series of four Regional Tree Climbing Competitions (TCCs) held across New Zealand.
The competitions are open to persons involved in all aspects of arboriculture.
The top climbers (plus special qualifiers and wildcards) from each of the Regional Tree Climbing Competitions will be eligible to compete in the STIHL / NZAA National Tree Climbing Championship (NTCC) held in November 2010, Auckland.
This is your chance to meet and compete with fellow arborists, learn new techniques and see first-hand differing climbing styles.
The overall winner of the NTCC will go on to represent New Zealand at the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) International Tree Climbing Championship (ITCC) held the following year in Brisbane, Australia during July 2011.
The NZAA’s 2009 AGM was held on Friday 20th November at the Marlborough Convention Centre in Blenheim.
Apart from the usual reviews – 2008 Minutes, President’s Report and budgets – the major outcome from the AGM was the election of several Executive Committe Members (6 of the 12 positions are renewed each year for two-year terms).
Thank you to everyone who was able to attend this year’s Treetech NZAA Annual Conference in Blenheim. I hope you got as much out of it as we did.
The dual streams introduced for this year was a great success and permitted attendees a wide range of options. We will be repeating this format for the next conference – so if you have ideas, we’d love to hear from you. Email us at conference2010@nzarbor.org.nz or leave a comment below.
11th NOVEMBER 2009
Auckland City Council to defer real action on new tree scheduling programme?
The Tree Council is urging Auckland City Council to actively encourage people of Auckland to put forward trees for scheduling. The Tree Council is concerned that councillors at this Thursdays Community Development Committee will choose to do the minimum in response to the governments recent change in urban tree protection legislation.
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This section advises Members and the public of Notifications and general notices concerning the ACS.
The following organisation is seeking to become a NZAA Approved Contractor, through the prescribed application process within the ACS Approval Guide.
Marlborough Lines Limited
(Blenheim)
In September 2009, the government passed the Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Bill 2009 which, amongst other sweeping changes to environmental protection, means that Councils are prohibited from introducing general urban tree protection rules from 1st October 2009 and those with existing rules will be required to phase them out by 1st January 2012. In a surprise last minute change during the debating of the Bill, the ‘trimming’ of trees protected under general urban tree protection rules became a permitted activity as of 1st October 2009.
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2009
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