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Identifying Your Trees (403)
Find out how to identify a tree and what types of trees exist. Using a tree's anatomy and physiology you can identify a tree by collecting leaves, cones, flowers, bark and fruit.

Photos and Images (75)
Specific galleries and photo features of photos and images depicting forests, forestry and trees in North America.

Plant Tree Seedlings (115)
A resource for tree seedling sapling planting and reforestation. You will receive instruction on how to plant tree seedlings correctly, how and where to purchase healthy tree saplings for planting, obtain financial assistance for planting a tree, get tax credit for tree planting and the care, purchase and storage of tree seedlings for planting.

Forestry Basics (536)
Links to basic forestry sources: forestry news, software and forestry statistical data, books and publications, forest issues, history and quizzes.

Using Forests and Trees (223)
Links to information on consumptive and non-consumptive forest, tree and timber uses.

Tools and Equipment (201)
Forestry has a unique list of equipment for working on forests and trees. Loggers, firefighters, sawmillers, tree planters and foresters have specializes tools to complete their work. Here are forestry tools of the trade.

Caring for Your Tree (194)
Tree are cared for and forests managed and tended using the methods developed by the sciences of silviculture and arboriculture. Learn more about the arborist and the silviculturist.

A Career in Forestry (96)
Finding a job or employment in forestry and the forest resources. Listed are sources for employment, forestry career help, forest job descriptions, needed forestry education, listings for forestry job descriptions and the forestry job market.

Your Forest Agency (180)
Links to forestry commissions and organizations that promote, educate, utilize and lobby for trees and forests, forest owners and forestry.

Our Tropical Rainforest (48)
A tropical rainforest is one of the most abundant and biodiverse ecological habitats on Earth. All tropical rainforests together support 50 percent of the living organisms in the world even though they cover less than 2% of Earth's surface. Tropical rainforests mainly occur inside the World's equatorial regions and is home an amazing diversity of species.

Pests that Kill Trees (173)
Find out about forest and tree pests that cause health issues and are enemies of trees and timber. Forests pests can be destroyed by insects, disease, fire, drought and storm.

Environmental Issues (8)
Here are some of forestry's most serious environmental issues and concerns. Difficult issues facing foresters and natural resource managers when dealing with the temperate and rain forest environment.

Fire in Forests (79)
Check here for sites that give information on wildfire and the sciences associated with fighting forest fires and managing prescribed and controlled burns.

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