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Silviculture is the art and science of managing trees. Here are sites that discuss tending and managing trees and the forest...
How to Manage and ID Paperbark Maple
How to Manage and ID Paperbark Maple
How to Manage and Identify Fringe Tree
How to Manage and ID Fringetree or Old-man's-beard
How to Manage and ID Aralia spinosa
How to Manage and ID Aralia spinosa
How to Manage and Identify Red Spruce
How to Manage and ID Picea rubens or red spruce
How to Manage and Identify Chinkapin
How to Manage and ID Chinkapin
How to Manage and Identify Green Ash
Identify Green Ash | Manage Green Ash | Fraxinus pennsylvanica
Manage Ginkgo - Plant and Grow a Ginkgo
How to Manage and ID Ginkgo or Ginkgo biloba
Manage Live Oak - Plant and Grow a Live Oak
How to Manage and ID Live Oak or Quercus Virginiana
How to Manage and ID Baldcypress
How to Manage and ID Baldcypress
How to Manage and Identify Ailanthus altissima
Identify and Manage Ailanthus or Tree-of-Heaven
How to Manage and Identify American Beautyberry
Identify and Manage American beautyberry or Callicarpa americana
How to Manage and Identify Monkey Puzzle Tree
Identify and Manage Monkey Puzzle Tree
How to Manage and Identify Fig
Identify and Manage Fig Ficus carica
Using a Tree as a Hedge Plant
Tips for Using a Tree as a privacy Hedge plant and windbreak
How to Manage and ID Norfolk-island Pine
How to Manage and ID Norfolk-island Pine
How to Manage and ID Paper Birch
How to Manage and ID Paper Birch
How to Manage and ID Weeping Higan Cherry
How to Manage and ID Weeping Higan Cherry
Manage Redbud | Identify Cercis canadensis | Plant Eastern Red Bud
Manage Redbud | Identify Cercis canadensis | Plant Eastern Red Bud
Identify Callery Pear | Manage Bradford Pear | Pyrus calleryana ‘Bradford’
Identify Callery Pear | Manage Bradford Pear | Pyrus calleryana ‘Bradford’
Identify Mulberry | Manage red and white Mulberry | Morus rubra alba
Identify Mulberry | Manage red and white Mulberry | Morus rubra alba
Identify Saucer Magnolia | Manage Saucer Magnolia | Magnolia x soulangiana
How to Manage and ID Magnolia x soulangiana or Saucer Magnolia
Identify Osage Orange | Manage Osage Orange | Maclura pomifera
How to Manage and ID Osage Orange or Maclura pomifera
How to Manage and Identify Sourwood
How to Manage and ID Sourwood
How to Manage and ID Japanese Maple
How to Manage and ID Japanese Maple
How to Manage and Identify Arborvitae
How to Manage and ID Arborvitae
How to Manage and Identify Pin Oak
How to Manage and ID pin oak
The Hybrid Poplar
A quick review of benefits and problems associated with hybred poplar.
How to Manage and ID Yoshino Cherry
How to Manage and ID Yoshino Cherry
How to Manage and ID Kwanzan Cherry
How to Manage and ID Kwanzan Cherry
How to Manage and ID Southern Waxmyrtle
How to Manage and ID Southern Wax myrtle
How to Manage and ID Flowering Dogwood
How to Manage and ID Flowering Dogwood
How to Manage and ID Mimosa
How to Manage and ID Mimosa
How to Manage and Identify American Sycamore
How to Manage and ID American Sycamore
How to Manage and ID Lombardy poplar
How to Manage and ID Lombardy poplar
How to Manage and ID Red Maple
How to Manage and ID Red Maple
Manage and ID Chorisa speciosa
How to Manage and ID Chorisa speciosa
Manage and ID Paulownia tomentosa
How to Manage and ID Paulownia tomentosa
ID and manage Zelkova serrata
How to ID and manage Zelkova serrata
ID and Manage Douglas Fir
ID and Manage Douglas Fir
ID and Manage Leyland Cypress
ID and Manage Leyland Cypress
ID and Manage Persimmon
How to ID and Manage Persimmon
Forestry Best Managment Practices
Landowners, foresters, timber buyers, loggers, site preparation and reforestation contractors, and others involved with forestry (defined as silvicultural) operations presently have an obligation to use effective practices to minimize nonpoint source pollution (soil erosion and stream sedimentation) and thermal pollution.
About Beginning Your Silvicultural Activities
A basic site to start your silvicultural activities from your About Forestry Guide.
About Clearcutting - Conditions for Cutting Every Tree
There are reasons to clearcut a stand of trees. Find out why...
About Finding Public Forestry Assistance
Finding dollars to assist you in your silvicultural activities. From your About Forestry Guide.
The Agriculture of Trees
Silviculture is the agriculture of trees--how to grow them, how to maximize growth and return, and how to manipulate tree species compositions.  Find more here...
Forest Landowners Guide to Internet Users
This guide is available both on the web and as a publication offered by the USDA Forest Service...the site is targeted to nonindustrial private owners in the Northeast.
The Forestry Index
The Forestry Index is designed with landowners and natural resource professionals in mind...the index divides on-line publications and sites into discernible categories.
How To Publications
A few silvicultural activities on specific tree species and problems.
John Evlyn's Silva
British-trees.com brings you John Evlyn's Silva which is thought to be the first published text on silviculture...
Intensive Forest Management
From the University of Georgia...
Intro to Silviculture
A brief description on silvics and silviculture.
Kentucky Silviculture
Silviculture and forest management from the University of Kentucky.
More Publications
More great silvics information...
Private Forest Management Team
This site introduces landowners to the basic principles of forestry, including forest planning, recreation, and wildlife. This guide is targeted to Southern US users.
Silviculture
A silvics site developed by the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Silviculture Surveys Guidebook
A silvics guidebook developed by the Government of British Columbia, Canada.
Silviculture Glossary of Terms
Terms prepared by the Silviculture Instructors Working Group of the Society of American Foresters.
Silvics of North America
This is the excellent U.S. Forest Service work on the silviculture of  200 individual tree species.  This is one of the best sites on managing trees by species on the Web.
Silviculture Laboratory
The Silviculture Laboratory at the College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, is actively involved in forestry research in the Pacific Northwest region, as well as internationally. 
Wetlands Silviculture
EPA addresses the wetlands issue through silviculture.
Yale Silviculture Lab
"A Program for the Restoration and Sustainable Management of Forests."
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