Pruning Standard--No Comment since 2008?

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guymayor

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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,
rrouse@tcia.org

  • Secretary
    Bob Rouse
    Tree Care Industry Association
    136 Harvey Road, Ste 101 Londonderry, NH 03053-7439
    (603) 314-5380
    rrouse@tcia.org

  • 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
    cregelbrugge@anla.org

  • 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
    pbecker@bartlett.com

  • User - Private Sector (Vote)
    Geoff Kempter
    Asplundh Tree Expert Co.
    708 Blair Mill Road Willow Grove, PA 19090-1701
    (215) 784-1362
    gkemp@asplundh.com

  • 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
    chris.klimas@davey.com

  • User - Private Sector (Alternate)
    Dave L. Johnson
    Asplundh Tree Expert Co
    708 Blair Mill Road Willow Grove, PA 19090
    (215) 784-4384
    djohnson29@asplundh.com

  • User - Private Sector (Alternate)
    Grant Jones
    The Davey Tree Expert Company
    1500 N Mantua St Kent, OH 44240-2399
    800-445-8733 - x344
    gjones@davey.com

  • User - Private Sector (Alternate)
    Thomas Smiley
    Bartlett Tree Experts
    13768 Hamilton Rd Charlotte, NC 28278-8213
    704-588-1150 x 123
    TSmiley@bartlettlab.com

  • 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
    wdubin@bartlett.com

  • 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
    tmugridge@forestcitytree.com

  • 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
    smaysjr@carrolltreeservice.com

  • User - Trade Association - Planet (Vote)
    Alice Carter, CTSP
    ValleyCrest Companies
    7039 Commerce Circle Ste B Pleasanton, CA 94588-8006
    (408) 406-5622
    acarter@valleycrest.com

  • User - Trade Association - Planet (Alternate)
    Tom Delaney
    PLANET
    504 Cole Drive Lilburn, GA 30047
    (770) 925-7113
    tomdelaney@landcarenetwork.org

  • User - Trade Association (Observer)
    Tim A. Johnson
    Artistic Arborist, Inc.
    4519 N 7th Ave Phoenix, AZ 85013-2754
    (602) 263-8889
    tim@artistic-arborist.com

  • User - Trade Association (Observer)
    Myron Laible
    Outdoor Advertising Association of America, Inc.
    1850 M Street NW Ste 1040 Washington, DC 20036
    202-833-5566
    mlaible@oaaa.org

  • User - Public Sector - SMA (Vote)
    Nolan Rundquist
    Seattle Department of Transportation
    PO Box 34996 Seattle, WA 98124-4996
    (206) 684-4134
    nolan.rundquist@seattle.gov

  • User - Public Sector - SMA (Alternate)
    Gordon Mann
    Mann Made Resources, Consulting Arborists
    12661 Torrey Pines Drive Auburn, CA 95602-8028
    (650) 740-3461
    gordon@mannandtrees.com

  • General Interest - Professional Society - ISA (Vote)
    Richard Hauer, PhD
    University of Wisconsin
    2100 Main Street Stevens Point, WI 54481
    (715) 346-3642
    rhauer@uwsp.edu

  • General Interest - Professional Society - ISA (Alternate)
    Sharon Lilly
    International Society of Arboriculture
    P.O. Box 3129 Champaign, IL 61826
    (217) 355-9411 x 208
    slilly@isa-arbor.com

  • General Interest - Professional Society - ASCA (Vote)
    Torrey Young
    Dryad, LLC
    35570 Palomares Road Castro Valley, CA 94552-9631
    (510) 538-6000
    torrey@dryad.us

  • General Interest - Professional Society - ASCA (Alternate)
    Stephen W. Miller, CTSP
    Bartlett Tree Experts
    119 Brush Creek Rd Irwin, PA 15642-9504
    (724) 863-8951
    smiller@bartlett.com

  • 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
    gpouly@efpouly.com

  • 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
    rleighton@asla.org

  • 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
    carrie@actrees.org

  • ASC A300 Liaison - NFPA 780 Liaison
    Richard Roux
    National Fire Protection Association
    1 Batterymarch Park Quincy, MA 02169-7484
    (617) 984-7476
    rroux@nfpa.org
 
Thanks Guy for the nudge.
Not to quibble, but I believe that Ed Macie has replaced Keith Cline as the voting member under "General Interest - Environment - USDA" and that I am the alternate:

Kevin T. Smith
USDA Forest Service
271 Mast Road, Durham, NH 03824
ktsmith@fs.fed.us

Happy to be corrected on this!
 
Kevin, I hope you're right! I just cutandpasted the list from the TCIA site; maybe they need a nudge, too. ;)

I know your agency does many things, but it seems ironic that A300 calls USFS an environmental group. Maybe that takes the place of inviting in any of those pesky 'green' people.

So you're on Mast Road, was that named after all the acorns and beech nuts?
 
Thanks Guy, I'll check out the TCI site with respect to the listing.
I'm sure there is a history for the regulary inclusion of the the USDA Forest Service as a participant in development of the pruning standard. I'm not on the "inside" of the standards-setting process such as who is included and who is not, I just know a little about how trees work!
As for the "Mast Road" in my Durham lab address, that refers to eastern white pine and ship masts. This part of New Hampshire was well-settled in early colonial days and the straight white pine timbers were used for ship masts. Actually, all white pine above a certain threshold size belonged to the British monarch, regardless of who owned or held the grant to the land. Felling those trees required a royal warrant, although I'm sure that log-jacking occurred. Mast Road led to the Oyster River and the Great Bay which facilitated access and shipping of timbers up and down the east coast and back to Britain. British Navy ships began being built in the late-17th Century on what is now the border between New Hampshire and Maine. More than you wanted to know, I'm sure!
 
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