Protecting the Trees_California American Water
About This Course
Trees are essential to a healthy planet—and to thriving neighborhoods. This class shares practical steps to protect their health, from understanding how trees work together in the landscape, to developing efficient irrigation strategies, separating watering systems for trees in turf, and creating a maintenance plan that supports long-term survival.
Curriculum
Protecting the Trees
Video – Protecting the Trees1:03:32
Q & A from webinar
Additional Resources and Links
Certificate of Completion
Your Instructors
Pamela Berstler
CEO, G3 Green Gardens Group
Our very own force of nature, Pamela Berstler is a highly experienced landscape expert who co-founded and continues to manage G3, Green Gardens Group. G3 is an award-winning EPA WaterSenseTM Partner and Professional Certifying Organization that educates and certifies property owners, policymakers, and landscape professionals throughout the U.S. and Canada in irrigation and rainwater capture using the Watershed Approach to landscaping.
Pamela spent a decade working as a landscape contractor with her own bespoke design/build firm specializing in innovations for sustainable cities. She didn’t come to landscapes and agriculture through a direct route, as she first took a detour through a career in derivative securities trading and raising private equity for technology and media companies. Pamela is deeply committed to the reinvigoration of American entrepreneurship through regenerative land management and agriculture.
Pamela is a 2019 Climate Reality Leader and is the recipient of many awards including the National APLD Sustainability Award, EPA Certifying Professional Organization of the Year, and Garden Communicators Association Green Medal in Sustainability.
Pamela incubated a love of gardening turning 40-year-old compost on her grandfather's urban farm and with her hands in the soil cultivating her mother's beloved tomato patch. And while she once loved the fast live, she now is returning to her roots, sharing her passion for growing family farm economic value and rebuilding rural comunities. Pamela is happiest in a garden and in front of an audience talking about the power of gardens to heal the planet.
Marilee Kuhlmann
A native Californian, Ms. Kuhlman has lived and worked in the Los Angeles area for most of her life. She is a founding principal, president and licensed California Landscape contractor (C-27) at the Urban Water Group, Inc. a Landscape Architecture firm which has received American Society of Landscape Architects awards for both residential landscapes and water conservation demonstration gardens.
She has been a Landscape designer and a certified UCLA horticulturist for 23 years. Founder of Comfort Zones Garden Design, has designed award winning landscapes with rainwater harvesting, designed LEED for Home Landscapes, and is a Landscape consultant for the City of Santa Monica. Ms. Kuhlman is also a founding member of G3LA, LLC where she participated in development and instruction of training courses for homeowners and professionals.
She is an international speaker on water conservation and the importance of watershed awareness.
We imagine resilient cities that are water and soil secure, with Watershed Wise landscapes, designed, built and managed by confident property owners and certified professionals who understand the connection each yard has to healing the global environment.
