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ISA has developed a series of Best Management Practices (BMPs) for the purpose of interpreting tree care standards and providing guidelines of practice for arborists, tree workers, and the people who employ their services. This BMP is intended to serve as a guide for arborists to assess tree risk as accurately and consistently as possible, to evaluate that risk, and to recommend measures that achieve an acceptable level of risk. It also serves as a companion publication for the American National Standard for Tree Care Operations—Tree, Shrub and Other Woody Plant Management—Standard Practices (Tree Risk Assessment a. Tree Structure Assessment). Topics in this BMP include:

• Risk Assessment Basics
• Levels and Scope of Tree Risk Assessment
• Assessing and Evaluation Risk from Tree Failures
• Tree Risk Categorization
• Tree Risk Mitigation: Preventive and Remedial Actions
• Risk Reporting
• Tree Related Conflicts
• Loads on Trees
• Structural Defects and Conditions That Affect Likelihood of Failure
• Assessing Response Growth
• Description of Select Types of Advanced Assessments

(©2011, softcover, 81 pp.) By E. Thomas Smiley, Nelda Matheny, and Sharon Lilly

ISA has developed a series of Best Management Practices (BMPs) for the purpose of interpreting tree care standards and providing guidelines of practice for arborists, tree workers, and the people who employ their services. This BMP is written for professionals who manage a large number of trees that are considered primarily as individuals rather than as groups, in locations such as municipalities, university campuses, cemeteries, military bases, corporate grounds, arboreta, homeowners associations, and private grounds. It strives to serve as a guide for making informed choices that will match inventory goals with needs and resources. Topics in this BMP include:

• Inventory Goals and Objectives
• Inventory Benefits and Costs
• Inventory Types
• Developing Work Specifications
• Maintaining Inventory Quality

(©2013, softcover, 35 pp.) By Jerry Bond

ISA has developed a series of Best Management Practices (BMPs) for the purpose of interpreting tree care standards and providing guidelines of practice for arborists, tree workers, and the people who employ their services.This BMP describes proper installation and maintenance of lightning protection systems that can effectively prevent serious lightning damage to trees. It also serves as a companion publication for American National Standard for Tree Care Operations—Tree, Shrub and Other Woody Plant Management—Standard Practices (Lighting Protection Systems). Topics in this BMP include:

• Identification of Trees Needing Lightning Protection
• Limitations of Tree Lightning Protection Systems
• Susceptibility to Lightning Strikes
• Lightning Protection Materials and Equipment
• Lightning Protection System Design and Installation
• Installation Methods
• Lightning Protection System Maintenance
• Lightning-Damaged Trees
• Electrical Testing of Grown-Over Conductors
• Testing Ground Systems
• Glossary of Terms

(©2015, softcover, 61 pp.) By E. Thomas Smiley, A. William Graham, Jr, and Scott Cullen