Arboriculture Standards:
- ANSI A300 (Part 1)-2017, “Tree, Shrub, and Other Woody Plant – Pruning”
- ANSI A300 (Part 3)-2013, “Tree, Shrub, and Other Woody Plant – Standard Practices (Supplemental Support Systems)”
- ANSI A300 (Part 6)-2017, “Tree, Shrub, and Other Woody Plant – Standard Practices (Transplanting)”
- ANSI A300 (Part 9)-2017, “Tree, Shrub, and Other Woody Plant – Standard Practices (Tree Risk Assessment a. Tree Failure)”
- ISA 2019, “Best Management Practices – Tree Pruning, Third Edition”, Lilly, Gilman, & Smiley
- ISA 2014, “Best Management Practices – Tree Support Systems, Cabling, Bracing, Guying, and Propping, Third Edition”, Smiley & Lilly
- ISA 2014, “Best Management Practices – Tree Planting, Second Edition”, Watson
- ISA 2017, “Tree Risk Assessment Manual, Second Edition”, Dunster, Smiley, Matheny, & Lilly
- ISA 2013, “Best Management Practices – Tree Inventories, Second Edition”, Bond
- ISA 2016, “Best Management Practices – Integrated Pest Management, Second Edition”, Bond
- USDA Forest Service 2010, “Tree Owner’s Manual”
- “Evaluating Tree Defects, A Field Guide”, Ed Hayes, Safetrees, LLC
Arboriculture Reference Texts:
- “Arboriculture, Integrated Management of Landscape Trees, Shrubs, and Vines, Second Edition”, Richard Harris, 1992
- “Pirone’s Tree Maintenance, Seventh Edition”, Hartman, Pirone, & Sall, 2000
- “The Body Language of Trees, Encyclopedia of Visual Tree Assessment, 1st Edition”, Mattheck, Bethge, Weber, 2015
- “Ecology and Silviculture of Eucalypt Forests”, Florence, Australian National University, Department of Forestry, 1996
- “Street Trees Recommended for Southern California, Third Edition”, Roth, Boroditsky, Darakjy, Roger, & Sappington, Street Tree Seminar, Inc.
- “An Illustrated Guide to Pruning, Third Edition”, Gilman, 2012
- “Insects That Feed on Trees and Shrubs, Second Edition, Revised”, Johnson, Lyon, Koehler, & Weidhaas, Cornell University Press, 1991
- “Diseases of Trees and Shrubs”, Johnson, Lyon, & Sinclair, Cornell University Press, 1996
Other Books:
- “Smithsonian Handbooks – Trees”, Coombes, 2002
- “Dirr’s Hardy Trees and Shrubs, an Illustrated Encyclopedia”, Michael Dirr, 2003
- “Trees, The Mechanical Design”, Mattheck, 1991
- “The Hidden Life of Trees”, Wohlleben, 2018