When I first sat down to breeze through the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Tree, Shrub, and Other Woody Plant Management—Standard Practices some years ago, my initial reaction was how obvious and self-evident some of the requirements were. I kept reading line items thinking, "Of course you would do that!" and, "How could someone practice otherwise?" It was a self-validating readthrough that essentially confirmed what I felt like I already knew. Before I opened these documents, I was expecting to learn new, sage advice about professional practice. But now I know that I was approaching the standards all wrong.
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