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Gail Nozal Assistant District Managers ISA Board Certified Master Arborist® MN-0276B Gail is an Assistant DistrictManager with S&S Tree and Horticultural Specialists. As a large.portion of her duties she is responsible for managing.and assisting with business development of the consulting division. In addition she. is. also responsible for overseeing all S&S technical content on science related to tree health and consulting. She is also. a liaison to all staff on, industry related to government affairs; external. continuing education and industry.related volunteer events. Prior to coming to S&S aver 10 years ago, she worked for Tree Trust, :a Minnesota nonprofit organization. She coordinated a statewide Urban and community forestry program that focuses on tree planting and Urban forestry education. Part of her work in urban forestry education included training volunteers to perform basic street tree inventories in their communities. One, of the h€ghlights at Tree Trust.was coordinating the volunteer data collection for the 2004 i-Tree. Study in. Minneapolis. She holds both bachelors and masters degrees in urban forestry iron! the University of Minnesota. She is active in Minnesota and internationally on a number of boards. She is a Board member on the Minnesota Shade Tree Advisory Committee, the state Urban forestry council, and a member of the Minnesota Nursery and Landscape Association Legislative Affairs Committee. She also services on the Credential Council of the International. Society of Arboriculture.. She is an ISA Board Certified Master Arborist.(MN-02768) Mark Rehder Consulting Arborist I ISA Board Certified Master Arborist@ MN -0239E Mark is a. Consulting Arborist with S&S Tree and Horticultural Specialists, Mark has been involved with Urban Forestry. since 1991 when he. became a MN Certified Tree Inspector. Additionally; he. has bee nan ISA Board Certified Master Arborist since 2001 and TRAQ since 2014. As urban forestry grant funds became available; especially With regards to oak wilt,. he worked with numerous communities and MNDNR on implementing and administering cost share programs. He currently is a Contracted City Forester and oversees numerous shade tree disease programs for a number of area communities. He has expanded his career by training in GISIC.PS inventories using Trimb1e@ data collectors and ARCG13 software and now is a Consulting Manager for S&S Tree Specialists. This has allowed him to provide full- scale inventories for numerous communities in the area. He has also works closely with developers and builders to make sure they are compliant with tree preservation requirements. Ordinance review; landscape review, and urban forestry management plans are additional skills he has acquired in the past years. Jacob Ryg Assistant District Manager f ISA Board Certified Arborist@ MN-0552BUTM Jacob has 15 years' experience in natural resource management. He has a B.S. in. Urban Forestry from the University: of Wisconsin Stevens Paint and a M.A.in.Organizational Leadership from Augsburg College, Jacob recently added the:[SA TRAQ (lnternational.Society of Arboriculture Tree Risk Assessment Qualification) to his resume. Jacob is a ISA Board Certified Master Arborist, has received Minnesota First Detector Training for EAB., a Minnesota DepartMent of Agriculture Certified Tree Inspector. He was formerly the City Forester for the City of Rochester and now manages the tree care, plant health care and lawn care divisions for S&S Tree and Horticultural Specialists S&S Tree and Horticultural Specialists, Inc. I Consulting: Division Page 2