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A. William
Graham, Jr.
Arboricultural Consultant and Educator
Mr. Graham is a leader within
the arboricultural field. He has served for six years
on the International Society
of Arboriculture's (ISA) Certified Arborist Board, is
a past president and member of the Executive Committee of
ISA's Penn-Del chapter,
and is one of the first ISA Board Certified Master Arborists.
Mr. Graham is a member of the American
Society of Consulting Arborists where he served for five
years as the organization's representative to the American
National Standards Institute A-300 Standards Committee.
This committee is responsible for writing arboricultural industry
standards. Since 2000, he has served on the Best Management
Practices (BMP) committee of ISA where he actively reviewed
the BMP for Tree Support Systems. He is currently working
as a co-author on the Tree Lightning Protection BMP.
As an arboricultural consultant and educator, Mr. Graham is
involved with teaching, training and consulting work throughout
Pennsylvania and northeast and north central regions of the
United States.
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Jason Lubar
Certified Arborist
Mr. Lubar, a Certified Arborist
and member of the International
Society of Arboriculture, has been a part of the Outreach
Arborist team since 1999. Previously, he consulted with
or was an employee of local urban forestry groups and related
organizations, and has been involved with a wide scope of
environmental-based projects. These projects and positions
include co-founding the Wissahickon Stewardship Program, a
community-based natural resource management program of the
Friends of the Wissahickon
in Philadelphia; and managing Awbury
Arboretum's Adult Job Training Program, which trains adults
on public assistance in landscaping and horticulture to gain
full-time employment. Mr. Lubar possesses applied knowledge
in sustainable landscape design and horticultural maintenance.
Herb White
Chief Arborist
Mr. White was involved with
the Cobbs
Creek Environmental Scholars Program (in Philadelphia,
Pa.) in 1992-95, where he conducted water quality studies
on an urban creek/watershed. In 1995 he entered Penn
State's Berks County campus with the intention of majoring
in Environmental Resource Management. In 1996 he transferred
to Penn State's University Park
campus and began searching for a more focused major that
dealt with the environment, but would allow him to live in
or very close to the city. That's when he discovered
the Urban Forestry Major at Penn
State's School of Forest Resources. In 2000 he graduated
with a B.S. in Forest Science with an Urban Forestry option,
and went to work for F.A. Bartlett Tree Experts in Bala-Cynwyd,
Pennsylvania. Mr. White became an ISA Certified Arborist
in the ISA Penn-Del Chapter
in 2002, the same year he was hired as the Assistant Arborist
at the Arboretum. He was promoted to the position of
Chief Arborist at the Arboretum in the winter of 2004-05.
He works frequently with Mr. Graham and Mr. Lubar on consulting
projects, using his tree-climbing expertise on tree hazard
assessments and pruning recommendations.
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