ISA Municipal Arborist EXAM STUDY
GUIDE 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH
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1. Agents of change - ANSWER ✔ Environmental, social, and public factors
that influence the dynamics of the vegetation resource over time.
2. Best management practices - ANSWER ✔ Tree care standers for providing
guidelines for practice for arborist.
3. Feedback - ANSWER ✔ in the planning process, the evaluation of program
or processes effectiveness, incorporation of changes in community values,
and response to new information.
4. Greenspace - ANSWER ✔ vegetated place
5. land use planning - ANSWER ✔ map and/ or document that allocates
specific locations in the community for various uses.
6. management planning - ANSWER ✔ Document that describes how goals
are to be accomplished within a defined time frame; includes tasks,
priorities, best management practices, standards, specifications, budgets and
staffing analyses.
,7. master plan - ANSWER ✔ document that describes a community's urban
forest, both public and privately owned, and identifies goals.
8. Resource assessment - ANSWER ✔ In urban forest, an evaluation of trees
based on inventory, canopy assessment, and/ or urban forest such as soil,
hydrology, water quality, temperature extremes, and wind.
9. Risk Management plan - ANSWER ✔ Document that defines a tree risk
management policy. describes tree inspection and documentation
procedures, and provides an action plan to minimize risk.
10.Biogenic volatile compounds - ANSWER ✔ Pollutants produced by trees,
that can contribute to the formation of ozone and carbon monoxide
11.UFORE - ANSWER ✔ Urban Forest Effects model - Systems that uses field
data to provide information on the amount and value of atmospheric
contaminant removal, carbon storage, and energy conservation. Uses real-
time, standardized field data from randomly located plots and local hourly
air pollution and meteorological data to quantify urban forest structure and
numerous urban forest effects for cities across the world. UFORE provides
information on the amount and value of atmospheric contaminant removal,
carbon storage, and energy conservation. If does not include inventory
program.
12.Two climate change benefits from trees - ANSWER ✔ Remove carbon
dioxide and sequester carbon in wood
13.To maximize energy benefits in warm climate areas, trees should be planted
- ANSWER ✔ On the east and west sides of buildings
,14.Municipal arboriculture - ANSWER ✔ A specialized field of arboriculture
and urban forestry that deals with management of planted and naturally
occurring greenspaces on public land.
15.Arboriculture - ANSWER ✔ Practice and study of the care of trees and other
woody plants in the landscape.
16.Urban forestry - ANSWER ✔ Management of naturally occurring and
planted trees and associated plants in urban areas.
17.Two methods of valuing plants recommended by the Council of Tree and
Landscape Appraisers are - ANSWER ✔ Replacement Cost Method and
Trunk Formula Method
18.Reasons a community may place a priority on tree preservation during land
development - ANSWER ✔ important environmental and social functions,
added property value, community demands tree preservation, trees may be
part of larger resource conservation program
19.Five management improvements needed to achieve urban forest
sustainability - ANSWER ✔ improved tree inventory implementation,
analysis, assessment, and integration; improved dialog and collaboration
among agencies, tree owners, and managers; improved understanding of the
relationship between forest configuration and benefits; improved knowledge
of the factors affecting forest health; improved information transfer
20.Key functions of the municipal arborist - ANSWER ✔ Providing expertise
in the condition and function of the urban forest; coordinating other
professionals and technical information; overseeing preparation of the
document; acting as contract administrator; gathering applicable resource
, information; formulating goals and action items; preparing or contributing to
written document
21.Information the municipal arborist should provide to help facilitate
development of an urban forest master plan - ANSWER ✔ Description and
evaluation of the urban forest; evaluation of infrastructure conflicts;
description of department structure, budget, funding sources, operations,
staffing; description of interaction with municipal departments and related
community groups
22.Agents of change - ANSWER ✔ Factors that influence the dynamics of the
vegetation over time. E.g. environmental agents (air pollution and pests),
public agents (ordinances and tree boards), Private agents (news media and
land developers)
23.Major components of a comprehensive street tree management plan -
ANSWER ✔ Identify locations and sequence of planting to optimize tree
cover; identify tasks to be preformed and their priority for allocation of
funds; tree replacement policy to when trees will be removed and replaced;
actions to create a wide range of species and ages; information-education
program between public and agency; how to incorporate agents of change
that arise over time to accomplish goals
24.Municipal arborists' role in meeting criteria for urban forest sustainability -
ANSWER ✔ Providing expertise and action in selecting, installing, and
maintaining new trees, and preserving and maintaining existing trees;
providing expertise and outreach to the community and green industries;
adopting and adhering to professional standards for tree care
GUIDE 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS ||
100% GUARANTEED PASS
<RECENT VERSION>
1. Agents of change - ANSWER ✔ Environmental, social, and public factors
that influence the dynamics of the vegetation resource over time.
2. Best management practices - ANSWER ✔ Tree care standers for providing
guidelines for practice for arborist.
3. Feedback - ANSWER ✔ in the planning process, the evaluation of program
or processes effectiveness, incorporation of changes in community values,
and response to new information.
4. Greenspace - ANSWER ✔ vegetated place
5. land use planning - ANSWER ✔ map and/ or document that allocates
specific locations in the community for various uses.
6. management planning - ANSWER ✔ Document that describes how goals
are to be accomplished within a defined time frame; includes tasks,
priorities, best management practices, standards, specifications, budgets and
staffing analyses.
,7. master plan - ANSWER ✔ document that describes a community's urban
forest, both public and privately owned, and identifies goals.
8. Resource assessment - ANSWER ✔ In urban forest, an evaluation of trees
based on inventory, canopy assessment, and/ or urban forest such as soil,
hydrology, water quality, temperature extremes, and wind.
9. Risk Management plan - ANSWER ✔ Document that defines a tree risk
management policy. describes tree inspection and documentation
procedures, and provides an action plan to minimize risk.
10.Biogenic volatile compounds - ANSWER ✔ Pollutants produced by trees,
that can contribute to the formation of ozone and carbon monoxide
11.UFORE - ANSWER ✔ Urban Forest Effects model - Systems that uses field
data to provide information on the amount and value of atmospheric
contaminant removal, carbon storage, and energy conservation. Uses real-
time, standardized field data from randomly located plots and local hourly
air pollution and meteorological data to quantify urban forest structure and
numerous urban forest effects for cities across the world. UFORE provides
information on the amount and value of atmospheric contaminant removal,
carbon storage, and energy conservation. If does not include inventory
program.
12.Two climate change benefits from trees - ANSWER ✔ Remove carbon
dioxide and sequester carbon in wood
13.To maximize energy benefits in warm climate areas, trees should be planted
- ANSWER ✔ On the east and west sides of buildings
,14.Municipal arboriculture - ANSWER ✔ A specialized field of arboriculture
and urban forestry that deals with management of planted and naturally
occurring greenspaces on public land.
15.Arboriculture - ANSWER ✔ Practice and study of the care of trees and other
woody plants in the landscape.
16.Urban forestry - ANSWER ✔ Management of naturally occurring and
planted trees and associated plants in urban areas.
17.Two methods of valuing plants recommended by the Council of Tree and
Landscape Appraisers are - ANSWER ✔ Replacement Cost Method and
Trunk Formula Method
18.Reasons a community may place a priority on tree preservation during land
development - ANSWER ✔ important environmental and social functions,
added property value, community demands tree preservation, trees may be
part of larger resource conservation program
19.Five management improvements needed to achieve urban forest
sustainability - ANSWER ✔ improved tree inventory implementation,
analysis, assessment, and integration; improved dialog and collaboration
among agencies, tree owners, and managers; improved understanding of the
relationship between forest configuration and benefits; improved knowledge
of the factors affecting forest health; improved information transfer
20.Key functions of the municipal arborist - ANSWER ✔ Providing expertise
in the condition and function of the urban forest; coordinating other
professionals and technical information; overseeing preparation of the
document; acting as contract administrator; gathering applicable resource
, information; formulating goals and action items; preparing or contributing to
written document
21.Information the municipal arborist should provide to help facilitate
development of an urban forest master plan - ANSWER ✔ Description and
evaluation of the urban forest; evaluation of infrastructure conflicts;
description of department structure, budget, funding sources, operations,
staffing; description of interaction with municipal departments and related
community groups
22.Agents of change - ANSWER ✔ Factors that influence the dynamics of the
vegetation over time. E.g. environmental agents (air pollution and pests),
public agents (ordinances and tree boards), Private agents (news media and
land developers)
23.Major components of a comprehensive street tree management plan -
ANSWER ✔ Identify locations and sequence of planting to optimize tree
cover; identify tasks to be preformed and their priority for allocation of
funds; tree replacement policy to when trees will be removed and replaced;
actions to create a wide range of species and ages; information-education
program between public and agency; how to incorporate agents of change
that arise over time to accomplish goals
24.Municipal arborists' role in meeting criteria for urban forest sustainability -
ANSWER ✔ Providing expertise and action in selecting, installing, and
maintaining new trees, and preserving and maintaining existing trees;
providing expertise and outreach to the community and green industries;
adopting and adhering to professional standards for tree care
