Useful & Interesting Forestry Related Websites

Pruning:
http://www.agriculture.purdue.edu/fnr/html/ugrad/UrbFor/Pruning.pdf
This is an awesome site from Purdue University with photographs to illustrate good and bad pruning practices. It has little reading, mostly headings.

Home Tree Care:
http://www.treesaregood.com
This site was developed by the International Society of Arboriculture for home use. It is friendly and information is based on latest professional practices.

Red Maple

Midwest Landscape Plants:
http://www.midwestlandscapeplants.org/browse.cfm?typeid=Tree
This site not only lists and describes many trees and shrubs, it also has good pictures and a button to push to hear the scientific name pronounced!

University of Wisconsin Extension – Garden Facts:
http://wihort.uwex.edu/GardenFacts.html
Fact sheets on urban horticulture, diseases and insects.

Fungi Growing on Wood:
http://www.messiah.edu/Oakes/fungi_on_wood
This is a super site with excellent photographs that can help to identify wood fungi (mushrooms).

Silvics of North America:
http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/silvics_manual/table_of_contents.htm
This is thee site for scientific information on trees from the USDA Forest Service. It features all aspects and uses of individual timber trees of which many are landscape trees. May be particularly helpful if you have rural land elsewhere.

Emerald Ash Borer:
http://www.emeraldashborer.info
Everything you ever wanted to know about the emerald ash borer, kept current.

International Society of Arborists:
http://www.isa-arbor.com
Official site for the professional arborist, including list of certified arborists by zip code.

American Forest – National Register of Big Trees:
http://www.americanforests.org/resources/bigtrees/register.php
Site for champion tree information and nomination.

Utilizing Municipal Trees - Recycling: http://www.na.fs.fed.us/Spfo/pubs/misc/utilizingmunitrees/Municipalities.htm
Creative community recycling of trees.

How to Recognize Hazardous Defects in Trees: http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/howtos/ht_haz/ht_haz.htm
Hazard tree manual, USDA Forest Service.