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Table 1. Proposed Sponsorship Levels

(2-year sponsorship)

Clean

Neighborhoods

Sponsor

$5,000

Funds mowing, litter

pickup, signage, graffiti

removal

Clean and Green

Sponsor $10,000

Funds mowing, litter

pickup, signage, graffiti

removal, tree care and

landscape

maintenance.

Million Trees

Sponsor $25,000

Funds mowing litter

pickup, signage, graffiti

removal, tree

installation, and

establishment.

Beautiful

Communities

Sponsor

$35,000

Funds mowing litter

pickup, signage, graffiti

removal, tree

installation, shrubs and

groundcover installation

and maintenance.

For details go to MillionTreesMiami.com

April 24, 2013 - CIAB

Miami Tree Summit Program & Presentations “THE JOBS ARE IN THE TREES”

Keynote Speaker: Larry Perez Everglades National Park

Larry Perez is a lifelong resident of Miami who has spent nearly twenty years working in south Florida’s natural areas. During his career, he has worked as a naturalist for Miami-Dade Parks, Recreation, and Open Spaces, and as a ranger for Biscayne and Everglades National Parks. Larry is a graduate of Florida International University where he completed programs in park and recreation management and environmental studies. He is the author of Words on the Wilderness: A History of Place Names in South Florida’s National Parks (ECity Publishing, 2007) and most recently Snake in the Grass: An Everglades Invasion (Pineapple Press), the most holistic account of south Florida's Burmese python problem to date.

9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Coffee/Meet and Greet MARC building hallway 2nd floor

9:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Welcome and Introduction

10:15 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Keynote Speaker Larry Perez, Author Everglades National Park

11:00 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. Break - Job Fair & Expo Open

11:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Crown Leadership Award Dr. Jack Parker, FIU

11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Xavier Cortada - FLOR 500

12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. Group Photo

Closing Remarks on Lawn

12:15 p. m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch / Job Fair & Expo

1:30 – 3: 30 Concurrent Presentations

Track I Arborist: Henry Mayer, UF/MDC – Pest Management (White Fly) (1 CEU Ornamental and Turf) Bob Brennan, Arborist Guild – Chainsaw Safety (1 CEU FNGLA)

Track II Landscape Architecture: Panelists: Libby Marshall, ASLA; Marissa Abreu, ASLA Ted Baker, FASLA; Tim McKernan, ASLA

Track III Engineering: Dr. Hector Fuentes, FIU College of Engineering Richard Johnson, MDX & TBA

Track IV Business& Law: Jane Graham, Esq – Everglades Policy Maria Nardi, MDC PROS – Miami-Dade Open Space Master Plan

2013 Crown Award Winner:

Dr. Jack Parker Professor Emeritus, Florida International University

Jack H. Parker is a Founding and Emeritus Professor of Environmental Science and Chemistry at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. Jack grew up in Orlando, Florida and received a B.S. in Chemistry from Emory University and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University California at Berkeley. For almost two decades, he was the Director of the FIU Environmental Studies Program. His research interests focus on ecological landscaping, energy and resource conservation, and energy policy. For his pioneering studies of energy conservation landscaping, he received the American Forests’ Research Medal.

Speakers

Keynote Larry Perez & Crown Award Winner

Dr. Jack Parker

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