Covers private and public forests, logging, forest products, disease and health, use and management. Grasslands, range and pasture management, wildfires and forest fires included.
Forestry and Grasslands
Spotlights
USDA Forest Service - ProgramsUSDA. Forest Service.
The USDA Forest Service manages public lands in national forests and grasslands. This home page is a gateway to information about FS policies, programs, and activities, including
USDA Forest Service - ResearchUSDA. Forest Service.
The USDA Forest Service is the largest forestry research organization in the world. This home page is a gateway to FS research data, including
National Forestry Handbook (PDF | 13.5 MB)
USDA. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Contains methodology, procedures, and reference materials to assist NRCS personnel implementing policies in the National Forestry Manual (PDF | 1.23 MB).
National Interagency Fire Center
National Interagency Fire Center.
Offers current fire information and situations, statistics, outreach, prevention and education notes, training notes, science and technology, reference materials and more.
Wood Handbook: Wood as an Engineering MaterialUSDA. Forest Service. Forest Products Laboratory.
Presents properties and design use of wood and wood-based products for architects and engineers.
FAO ForestryUN. Food and Agriculture Organization.
Offers FAO's country profiles and documents on all aspects of forestry for technical specialists and public users. Covers forest fire, national forest programs, forest reproduction. Multilingual. Journal Unasylva full-text, 1947-present.
Forage Information System: Topics
Oregon State University. Crop and Soil Science.
Covers forage production and use topics and subtopics: animals, cover crops, silage, hay, pasture, species, quality, economics, pests, etc.
Forest Fires, Wildfires, and Fire Science
USDA. National Agricultural Library.
Searches for article citations in the NAL Catalog (AGRICOLA) on forest fires, wildfires, fire science and management from January 2005 to the present. Or search for books and audiovisuals from 2000 to the present.
Global Forestry Information Service
International Union of Forest Research Organizations.
Provides forestry maps, datasets, web sites, articles, and books from more than 30 organizations worldwide. Metasearch of 130,000+ records provided by GFIS partners.
International Directory of Forest Information Services: Libraries, Documentation Centres, and Subject SpecialistsInternational Union of Forestry Research Organizations.
Provides searchable databases of forestry information sources. Users may search by keyword, institution, collection, or personnel.
Bugwood NetworkUniversity of Georgia. Warnell School of Forest Resources. Entomology.
Provides information on entomology, forestry, forest health, and natural resources.
Global Forest WatchWorld Resources Institute.
Shows and discusses data on human-forest interactions, the decline of primal forests and forest cover, forest carbon, and forest types. Includes maps and full-text publications. Multilingual.
Technical Guide to Urban and Community Forestry
World Forestry Center.; Robin Morgan.
Provides technical information to help communities develop, manage, and protect urban forest resources.
Forest History Society
Forest History Society.
Focuses on the history of interactions between people, forests, and their related resources -- timber, water, soil, forage, fish and wildlife, recreation, and scenic or spiritual values.
American Tree Farm SystemAmerican Forest Foundation.
Home page of an organization that has standards and guidelines for property owners to meet to establish their land as a certified Tree Farm. Emphasizes conservation and environmental responsibility.
Treesearch - Forest Service Research and DevelopmentUSDA. Forest Service.
A searchable database of Forest Service research and online publications. Full text publications are freely available.
What Tree Is That?
National Arbor Day Foundation.
Offers illustrated descriptive tags and tools to identify trees by leaf characteristics.
Fire and Aviation Management LinksUSDA. Forest Service.
Lists with links to many sites covering subjects such as prevention, training, status, fire science, lookouts, photographs, history, tools, technology, and more.
Directory of Forest Products, Wood Science and Marketing
Silvaris Corporation.; Steve Shook.
Links to research institutions, commercial sources, mailing lists, manufacturers, associations, publications, forest products certification and sustainability sites, marketing sites, and more.
The American Woods: Exhibited by Actual Specimens and with Copious Explanatory TextNorth Carolina State University Libraries. Special Collections Research Center.
Displays "radial, tangential, and cross-sections of 350 North American woods from the 14-volume rare book, published between 1888 and 1910 by the author, Romeyn Beck Hough. The images can be accessed by volume number or by the scientific or common name of each tree."