Articles Index

How to Clean Your Forestry Pesticide Sprayers

A high quality sprayer, when equipped with durable spray nozzles and properly cleaned, can service you well for years. Here are ways to keep a sprayer clean and functional.

Firewood Value and Costs

Finding a rack of firewood for sale is just the beginning when determining the real value of firewood. The best cord of firewood you wiil find is not worth being charged double. Here is how to buy firewood.

Tax Tips for Timber Owners

Five points to remember when preparing your Federal income tax if you have a timber account.

Tree Species

Tree species get their scientific name from the Linnaean classification of plant categories. Learn more about how a tree is named.

Tree Anatomy and Identification

Tree anatomy and leaf identification guide with with instruction on how to identify and name tree species and leaves where you find North American tree identifiers that helps with leaf and pine needle identification.

Preparing a Tree Leaf Collection

Nearly every one attempts to build a tree leaf collection, either at school or work, for both study and exhibition. Here are my tips and suggestions toward making a plant leaf collection including building a leaf press.

Tree Transplant Shock

Trees that are moved and relocated are always in danger of transplant shock. Here are ways to limit the danger of harm to relocated trees.

A Guide to Tree Planting

How to plant trees and where trees should be planted. Ways to increase your tree planting survival and planting to grow a healthy tree. Where to find trees to plant from tree nurseries and catalogs.

Top 5 Tree Seedling Sources Online

Here is a review with links of the top 5 tree seedling sources online.

Building a Fire in a Wood Stove

Starting a fire with wood in your fireplace is not complicated but should be done correctly for efficiency and safety. Learn how to start a fire in your wood stove, fireplace or even a campfire.

Clearcutting - The Debate

A forestry approved clear cut is not deforestation but one method to achieve even-aged forest management with same aged trees.

A Forest Ecosystem and Biodiversity

A forest ecosystem is one major ecologic unit that exists as "home" for a community of both native and introduced, classified organisms. The forest ecosystem is just one of a number of unique ecosystems including prairies, deserts, polar regions and great oceans, smaller lakes and rivers. A forest biome typically is associated with land masses covered in trees.

Neem Tree - Azadirachta indica

The all-purpose, do everything Neem Tree explained and health uses highlighted.

Best Fall Foliage and Autumn Color Web Cams

Here are the best fall tree foliage and autumn color web cams. Using webcams you can follow the fall color and autumn leaf wave through North America.

Autumn Leaf Pictures - Pictures of Autumn Leaf Display of Trees and Forests

Autumn Leaf Pictures - Autumn Leaf Pictures of Trees and Forests

Knowing Your Leaf Colors

Deciduous trees have unique autumn leaf colors. The primary leaf colors of a leaf is determined by anthocyanins (red) and carotenoids (yellow and orange). Find out more about leaf colors by tree species.

National Forest Fall Foliage Hotline, 2011

For fall foliage information The U. S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service will activate a toll-free fall foliage and autumn leaf hotline early this September.

America's State Trees

The official state tree of all states and territories listed in order by state, common name, scientific name and the year of enabling legislation.

Radicalism and the Forestry Environmentalist

Radical environmentalists espouse much of the "Deep Ecology" ideology. Anything is fair game when defending this ethic. Their tactics include, but are not limited to, blockades, tree-sits, spiking trees and damaging targeted forest-related property.

Clearcutting

Clearcutting is not a universally accepted practice. However, to clearcut is to practice sound forest management under certain conditions.

Forest Decline - A Rush to Judgment?

There are many who think our forests are dying and in decline. Find out what the issues are and learn a bit about forest decline

America's Big, Champion Tree Registry

Learn more about American Forests National Champion Big Tree Register and how trees are selected nationally to honor a tree champion and listed the champion big tree registry.

Arborglyphs and Tree Carvings

Arborglyphs and tree carvings have received little attention until Joxe Mallea's Basque Sheepherder studies popularized the study. Find out more about culturally modified trees in the form of arborglyphs.

Non-Timber Products of the Forest

There are ways to make money from a forest without cutting trees. Using this report, compliment your income by utilizing and marketing specialty forest products without harvesting timber.

10 Yard Trees Gone Bad

There are both desirable and undesirable characteristics you need to consider before planting a tree in your yard. Here are 10 trees you may wish not to plant to avoid tree removal or landscape problems.