ANSI – A300 Fertilization

This standard sets forth general guidelines for use in drafting tree care specifications on fertilization.

ANSI – A300 Lightning Protection

The American National Standard for Lightning. The standard includes sections on scope, purpose, application, and implementation; definitions; safety; and lightning protection practices for trees.

ANSI – A300 Pruning

American National Standard for Tree Care Operations.(Tree, shrub and other woody plant maintenance.) It is the first of its kind available to our industry.

ANSI – A300 Support Systems

The standard includes sections on hardware selection and requirements, installation practices, cabling and bracing requirements, and guying. ISA has published a companion publication, Best Management Practices: Tree Support Systems, to serve as the "how to" guide for cabling, bracing, and guying trees.

ANSI – Z133.1 Safety Requirements for Tree Care Operators

Produced by the American National Standards Institute, this publication establishes safety standards for tree care operations such as pruning, trimming, repairing, maintaining, and removing trees in the United States. The purpose of this standard is to provide safety criteria for workers and the public. It is also intended as an aid to federal, state, and municipal authorities in drafting regulations and may be adopted in whole or in part. This publication is a must for anyone engaged in tree care.

ANSI – Z133.1 Safety Requirements for Tree Care Operators, Spanish Version

The latest safety standard for the tree care industry, ANSI Z133.1, is now in Spanish. This publication establishes safety standards for tree care operations in the United States and provides safety criteria for workers and the public. It is also intended as an aid to federal, state, and municipal authorities in drafting regulations.

Best Management Practices Series - Tree Support Systems

Best Management Practices: Tree Support Sytems was developed to serve as the "how to" guide for cabling, bracing, and guying trees. This companion publication to the ANSI A300 tree support systems standard should be purchased with the standard and used in defining cabling, bracing, and guying procedures and methods.

Best Management Practices Series - Tree Fertilization

Best Management Practices: Tree and Shrub Fertilization was developed to serve as the "how to" guide for tree and shrub fertilization. This companion publication to the ANSI A300 tree tree fertilization standard should be purchased with the standard and used in defining tree and shrub fertilization procedures and methods.

Best Management Practices - Lightning Protection

Best Management Practices: Lightning Protection was developed to serve as a companion publication to the ANSI A300 Lightning Protection Standard.

Best Management Practices - Tree Pruning

Designed as a how-to guide to accompany the ANSI pruning standard, this booklet addresses how to meet industry standards and customer expectations with minimal harm to the tree. It provides reasons why pruning is undertaken, explains pruning types and amounts, provides background on pruning cuts, reviews sample specifications, and comments on timing of these operations.

Best Management Practices Pruning - Spanish Version

Best Management Practices are guides written as how-to companions for the ANSI A300 standards, providing urban foresters with effective methods of standards application. The Spanish version of Pruning provides the same material as the English version. The guide covers how to meet industry standards and customer expectations with minimal harm to the tree.

Best Management Practices Series - Tree Planting

Best Management Practices - Utility Pruning of Trees

Best Management Practices are guides written as how-to companions for the ANSI A300 standards, providing urban foresters with effective methods of standards application. The newly released Utility Pruning of Trees guide provides information on the pruning methods that enhance safe and reliable delivery of utility services while minimizing injuries to trees.

Grades and Standards For Nursery Plants
By the Florida Department of Agriculture

An essential book for anyone who buys or purchases trees and plants in Florida! The Grades and Standards manual is divided into 4 groups: Trees, Palms & Cycads, Shrubs Groundcovers & vines, and Wetland Plants. The vast number of plants grown in Florida coupled with the different sizes and shapes of plants that enter the market, clearly indicates the need for precise communication between buyer and seller.

The latest 1998 version of the Grades and Standards for Nursery Stock, passed by the Florida Legislature in 1955 and codified with Section 581.031 (2)(3), Florida Statutes, establishes a vehicle for buyer and seller communication. The book is published in 8.5" X 11" 3-hole punched, loose leaf format to facilitate updates.