Integrated Pest Management Webinar Series

US Environmental Protection Agency

The EPA Center for Integrated Pest Management hosts free webinars featuring experts relaying educational and practical strategies for establishing and improving IPM programs in your facilities and environments. Dates and topics below.

• February 11: IPM for Four Key Greenhouse Pests
• February 26: Myths about Urban Trees and Soils
• March 19: Ticks - New Threats, precautions and IPM Solutions
• April 22: Promoting Pollinators through Plant Selection
• May 13: Protecting the Public from Illegal and Unregistered Pesticides
  

Registration: Free, but required. Register here.

What's Bugging You?

New York State IPM Program

This monthly series explores topics to help you use integrated pest management to avoid pest problems and promote a healthy environment where you live, work, learn and play. Each month, speakers will share practical information about how you can use IPM. Advanced registration is required. Dates and topics below, all begin at 9 am Pacific.

• February 7: Proper Storage of Pesticides and Household Chemicals & Misuse of Moth Balls
• March 7: Considerations for Hiring a Pest Pro & Choosing a Tick Repellent
• April 4: Pest Rats Explained - Myth, Cats for Rat Control
• May 2: Spongy Moth Caterpillar Management, Feeding Friendly Insects & Plan to Prep Your Soil
• June 6: Spotted Lanternfly Update & Recognizing Wild Parsnip
• July 4: Grow Green Lawns with Overseeding & Beech Leaf Disease
• August 1: Making a Mosquito Bucket Trap & Feeding Friendly Insects: Pick Plants
• September 5: Top 5 Rodent Exclusion Tips & Feeding Friendly Insects & Get Ready to Plant
• October 3: Winterize Your Home Orchard & Feeding Friendly Insects: Fall is for Planting
• November 1: Understanding Indoor Cockroaches & Invasive Tawney Field Cockroach
• December 5: IPM for Clothes Moths and Pantry Moths
  

Registration: Free, but required. Register here.

Exceptional Customer Service Part 1

with Steve Beck

This seminar is about creating and maintaining Exceptional Customer Service in your organization. Participants discover that our job is not just a job, but rather a performance of "Being Our Best Every Day by having a Great Day Every Day!"

• When: March 12, 2025
• 8:30 am - noon
  
• Where: Great Falls, MT
• Cost: $129/person

Register  here.

Motivational Leadership Seminar

By Nationally-Acclaimed Speaker, Steve Beck

This Motivational Leadership Training is about having your Executive Staff inspire themselves and their team to excellence. They will also get essential information and tools to motivate their team for greater productivity.

• When: April 2nd, April 3rd, 2025
• 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
• Where: Billings, MT
• Cost: $249/person
  

Register here.

TRAQ (Tree Risk Assessment Qualification) Course

April 21-24, 2025

Three Forks, MT

MUCFA (Montana Urban Community Forestry Association) is collaborating with ISA-RMC (International Society of Arboriculture, Rocky Mountain Chapter) to offer a TRAQ course April 21-24 in Three Forks. This will include the full course and a renewal course. Dr. Richard Hauer, the Director of Urban Forestry for the Eocene Environmental Group, is the lead instructor.

Register here