US Standard News

[treeseer]

The best-kept secret in the US segment of the tree care industry is this announcement that the A300 committee is attempting to reaffirm the current 2008 version of the A300 Pruning standard. The text is below, with the odd statement that "no comments or suggestions for improvement for the Pruning standard were received by TCIA since 2008."

 

This must be a typo. We've seen many calls for changes to this standard in TCI magazine, and also presented at Expo. Now's the time to check your 2008 copy and think about how it works, or doesn't work for you. Compared to the standards in advanced countries like Germany and the UK, the text is obscure, and lacking guidance and information.

 

The A300 committee has no working arborists participating, and recently floated a change in its Bylaws that, unlike the Z133 committee, for instance, does not allow any input from Observers at its meetings. So it's up to us to review this and submit comments to Mr. Rouse and your committee reps, listed below.

 

May 8, 2014

ANSI A300 (Part 1)-2008 Pruning Standard Reaffirmation Notice

 

ANSI A300 (Part 1)-2008 Pruning standard is in public review for a proposed reaffirmation of the

standard. Reaffirmation means the standard is reaffirmed for up to an additional 5–year period as is,

without substantive changes. This decision was reached since no comments or suggestions for

improvement for the Pruning standard were received by TCIA since 2008. Once the reaffirmation is approved, the A300 committee will begin working on the next revision of the Pruning standard (projected for 2016).

The public review period runs May 9, to June 23, 2014. Since this is a reaffirmation of a

standard, your public review draft copy is your copy of the ANSI A300 (Part 1)-2008 Pruning standard,

to order call TCIA at 800-733-2622. Send questions or comments on the reaffirmation to Bob Rouse,

[email protected]

 

Secretary

Bob Rouse

Tree Care Industry Association

136 Harvey Road, Ste 101 Londonderry, NH 03053-7439

(603) 314-5380

[email protected]

 

Producer (Vote)

Warren A. Quinn

American Nursery & Landscape Assoc.

1000 Vermont Ave, NW Ste 300 Washington, DC 20005-5979

(202) 789-5980

 

Producer (Alternate)

Craig J. Regelbrugge

American Nursery & Landscape Assn.

1250 I St NW Ste 500 Washington, DC 20005-5979

(202) 789-2900

[email protected]

 

User - Private Sector (Vote)

Peter J. Becker

Bartlett Tree Experts - Mid-Atlantic Division

2950 Industrial Pk Dr Ste C Finksburg, MD 21048-2339

(410) 861-8312

[email protected]

 

User - Private Sector (Vote)

Geoff Kempter

Asplundh Tree Expert Co.

708 Blair Mill Road Willow Grove, PA 19090-1701

(215) 784-1362

[email protected]

 

User - Private Sector (Vote)

Christopher A. Klimas, CTSP

The Davey Tree Expert Company

218-B South Main St. Mount Airy, MD 21771

(301) 829-6915

[email protected]

 

User - Private Sector (Alternate)

Dave L. Johnson

Asplundh Tree Expert Co

708 Blair Mill Road Willow Grove, PA 19090

(215) 784-4384

[email protected]

 

User - Private Sector (Alternate)

Grant Jones

The Davey Tree Expert Company

1500 N Mantua St Kent, OH 44240-2399

800-445-8733 - x344

[email protected]

 

User - Private Sector (Alternate)

Thomas Smiley

Bartlett Tree Experts

13768 Hamilton Rd Charlotte, NC 28278-8213

704-588-1150 x 123

[email protected]

 

User - Private sector (Observer)

Wayne Dubin, CTSP

Bartlett Tree Experts - Metropolitan Div West

98 Ford Rd Ste 3E Denville, NJ 07834-1356

(973) 983-7511

[email protected]

 

User - Trade Association - Tree Care Industry (Vote)

Thomas J. Mugridge

Forest City Tree Protection Co., Inc.

731 Beta Dr Suite E Mayfield Village, OH 44143-2358

(216) 381-1700 ext.14

[email protected]

 

User - Trade Association - Tree Care Industry (Alternate)

Steven R. Mays, Jr.

Carroll Tree Service, Inc.

74 Gwynns Mill Ct Owings Mills, MD 21117-3532

(410) 998-1100

[email protected]

 

User - Trade Association - Planet (Vote)

Alice Carter, CTSP

ValleyCrest Companies

7039 Commerce Circle Ste B Pleasanton, CA 94588-8006

(408) 406-5622

[email protected]

 

User - Trade Association - Planet (Alternate)

Tom Delaney

PLANET

504 Cole Drive Lilburn, GA 30047

(770) 925-7113

[email protected]

 

User - Trade Association (Observer)

Tim A. Johnson

Artistic Arborist, Inc.

4519 N 7th Ave Phoenix, AZ 85013-2754

(602) 263-8889

[email protected]

 

User - Trade Association (Observer)

Myron Laible

Outdoor Advertising Association of America, Inc.

1850 M Street NW Ste 1040 Washington, DC 20036

202-833-5566

[email protected]

 

User - Public Sector - SMA (Vote)

Nolan Rundquist

Seattle Department of Transportation

PO Box 34996 Seattle, WA 98124-4996

(206) 684-4134

[email protected]

 

User - Public Sector - SMA (Alternate)

Gordon Mann

Mann Made Resources, Consulting Arborists

12661 Torrey Pines Drive Auburn, CA 95602-8028

(650) 740-3461

[email protected]

 

General Interest - Professional Society - ISA (Vote)

Richard Hauer, PhD

University of Wisconsin

2100 Main Street Stevens Point, WI 54481

(715) 346-3642

[email protected]

 

General Interest - Professional Society - ISA (Alternate)

Sharon Lilly

International Society of Arboriculture

P.O. Box 3129 Champaign, IL 61826

(217) 355-9411 x 208

[email protected]

 

General Interest - Professional Society - ASCA (Vote)

Torrey Young

Dryad, LLC

35570 Palomares Road Castro Valley, CA 94552-9631

(510) 538-6000

[email protected]

 

General Interest - Professional Society - ASCA (Alternate)

Stephen W. Miller, CTSP

Bartlett Tree Experts

119 Brush Creek Rd Irwin, PA 15642-9504

(724) 863-8951

[email protected]

 

General Interest - Professional Society - ASCA (Observer)

Beth Palys, CAE

American Society of Consulting Arborists

9707 Key West Ave Ste 100 Rockville, MD 20850-6246

(301) 947-0483

 

General Interest - Professional Society - PGMS (Vote)

Gene Pouly

E. F. Pouly Company

9088 Back Orrville Rd Orrville, OH 44667-9554

(330) 683-8733

[email protected]

 

General Interest - Professional Society - PGMS (Alternate)

Michael Bova

Professional Grounds Mngmt Society

720 Light St Baltimore, MD 21230-3850

(410) 752-3318

 

General Interest - Professional Society - ASLA (Vote)

Ron Leighton

American Scty of Landscape Architects

636 Eye St NW Washington, DC 20001-3736

(202) 216-2338

[email protected]

 

General Interest - Professional Society - UAA (Vote)

William Rees

Baltimore Gas & Electric

1068 N Front St Baltimore, MD 21202-4129

(410) 291-3633

 

General Interest - Professional Society - UAA (Alternate)

Matthew Simons

Utility Arborist Association

5100 Harding Hwy C/O Pepco Holdings Mays Landing, NJ 08330-2260

(609) 625-6021

 

General Interest - Environment - USDA (Vote)

Keith W. Cline

USDA Forest Service

1400 Independence Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20250-0002

(610) 557-4183

 

General Interest - Environment - USDA (Alternate)

Ed Macie

U. S. Forest Service

1720 Peachtree St NW C/O Usda Forest Svc-Southern Region Atlanta, GA 30309-2449

(404) 347-1647

 

General Interest - Consumer/Community - ACT (Vote)

Carrie Gallagher

Alliance for Community Trees

6856 Eastern Ave NW #150 Washington, DC 20012

(301) 277-0040

[email protected]

 

ASC A300 Liaison - NFPA 780 Liaison

Richard Roux

National Fire Protection Association

1 Batterymarch Park Quincy, MA 02169-7484

(617) 984-7476

[email protected]

[Craig Johnson]

I guess the member from the Outdoor Advertising Association of America sorted out the publicity for the review period lol

[treeseer]

I guess the member from the Outdoor Advertising Association of America sorted out the publicity for the review period lol

 

Ah he's quite inactive, as are many on that list. It's quite a corporate-dominated process; that must be quite a surprise as viewed from the UK.

[Craig Johnson]

cant see any group of 30 agreeing anything quickly