• Conserving Biodiversity Through Sustainable Forestry - A new report from the National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry provides an overview of ecological forestry by region
• Fundamentals of Decision Making - The Guild's Tenets of Forestry
• Forest Management Plan Recommendations - Maine Forest Service (see p5)
• Principles and Criteria - Forest Stewardship Council (incl.guidance on forest plans p6)
• Guide to Selecting Biodiversity Indicators - Journal of Forestry (see p6)

• Aitkin County, Minnesota (Silvicultural Practices)
• Baraboo, Wisconsin
• Door County, Wisconsin
• Crummies Creek Tree Farm, West Virginia - Emphasis on non-timber forest productions
• Jakelands Farm, West Virginia - Response to gypsy moth
• Watershed stewardship plan, Oregon
• Model management Plan for Longleaf Pine Ecosystems, Georgia
• Grafton County Farm & Woodlands, New Hampshire

• American Tree Farm System
• Forest Stewardship Council
• Sustainable Forestry Initiative

• Tools for carbon inventory, management, and reporting - US Forest Service
•  Forest Vegetation Simulator
•  Carbon Calculation Tool
•  Carbon OnLine Estimator
•  Standards Tables (GTR-343)
•  i-Tree
• Climate Change and Carbon - The Forest Guild
• Rural Climate Change Policy
• Carbon Trading: A Primer for Forest Landowners
• Forests' Role in Climate Change - Union of Concerned Scientists
• Model Forest Policy Program
        Managing Forests in a Warming Climate - Forestry Source
        Carbon Market May Offer Opportunities for Forest Landowners - Forestry Source
• The Cost of U.S. Forest-based Carbon Sequestration - Pew Center
• Hardiness Zone Map - (reflects warmer climate) Arbor Day Foundation
• Forests, Climate Change, and Carbon Reservoirs - Sierra Club of Canada
• Intergovernmental Plan on Climate Change
        Mitigation of Climate Change
        Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
• Climate  resources by  state:
• Carbon Credits for Forestry in California - Pacific Forest Trust
• Colorado Climate Project (Forestry Section)
  
• Climate Change Costs for Oregon forests - Oregon State University
• Forests, Carbon, and Climate Change Conference - Oregon State University
• New Mexico Climate Change Advisory Group
  
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• The Forest Guild Policy Perspective on Working Forest Conservation Easements
• Red Lodge Clearinghouse
• Working Forest Conservation Easements - Maryland Cooperative Extension

Digital Mapping links from Michigan Tech  ^

• Digital Mapping (GIS) Clearinghouses by State - Massachusetts Institue of Technology
• More GIS Clearinghouses by State - University of Waterloo
• Compass Declination - National Ocean Atmospheric Administration
• GPS Utility - Utility to interface GPS and computer
• Digital Grove - Free GIS/GPS software including inventory solutions (both desktop and PDA) and Arcview extensions
• X Tools - ArcView extension
• Arcview Utility Tools - Minnesota DNR Arcview tools for foresters that includes acreage calculator, intersection, buffering and more
• DNR Garmin Extension - Tool for exchanging data between Arcview and most Garmin GPS units

• Maine Natural Areas Program
• New Hampshire Natural Heritage Bureau
• Vermont Guide to Natural Communities
• New York Ecological Community Information
• Massachusetts Classification of Natural Communities
• Rhode Island Natural Communities
• Pennsylvania Plant Communities
• Virginia Natural Communities
• West Virginia Ecological Communities
• Wisconsin Ecological Land Classication , Habitat Type System
• Minnesota Ecological Land Classication
• Florida Natural Communities
• California Wildlife Habitat Relationships
• Washington Ecological Communities
• British Columbia Biogeoclimatic Ecosystem Classification
• Forest Certification and Ecological Classification Systems - Dovetail Partners Inc
• Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Ecological Classification for Conservation - The Nature Conservancy

• National Timber Tax
• Forest Landowner's guide to federal income tax - US Forest Service
• Economics of Ecological Forestry - Pioneer Forest
• Uneven Aged Pine Management
• Timber and Log Prices

Forest Health & Invasives  ^

• Forest Insect and Disease Leaflets

Invasive Species


• Alien Plant Invaders of Natural Areas - Plant Conservation Alliance
  
• Global Invasive Species Database
• Georgia Invasive Species Task Force

Forest Type Descriptions  ^

• World Wildlife Fund's Ecoregions
• Ecological Subregions of the United States - US Forest Service
• Bailey's Ecoregions (province level)
• Land Use History of North America
• Forest Stewardship Council Regional Standards
• Nature Serve Explorer

National legislation and regulations  ^

Federal lands


• National Environmental Policy Act
• Healthy Forest Initiative
• Healthy Forest Restoration Act
        HFRA field guide
• Endangered Species Act
• The Principal Laws Relating to USDA Forest Service State and Private Forestry Programs


• Red Lodge Clearinghouse

Forestry Glossaries  ^

• Forestry Glossary - California Wood Products Commission
• Forestry Definitions - Timberline Forestry Consulting
• Glossary - British Columbia Ministry of Forests

• Silvics of North America - US Forest Service
• Tree Fact Sheets - Virginia Tech
• Fire Effects Information System - US Forest Service

• Soils - Natural Resource Conservation Service
        Online copies of county soil surveys (PDFs)
        Online digital soil maps
        Soil Extent Mapping tool
        Forest Soils - Temperate Forest Foundation

Site Index Curves and Growth Estimators  ^

• National Register of Site Index Curves
• Site Index Curves and Mean Annual Increment for west coast trees
• Site Index Curves for eastern trees
• Site Index Curves from Vermont

• Focus Species Forestry - Maine Audubon
• Endangered Species Program - US Fish and Wildlife
        Threatened and Endangered Species by State
• Forest and Rangeland Birds of the United States
• Science and Myths of Logging to Control Insects - Xerces Society
  

Other Links and Tools  ^

• Forestry Images - University of Georgia provides a clearinghouse for thousands of silvicultural, forest health, and fire images
• A Reference Handbook for Foresters - US Forest Service designed for Northeast, useful for many regions
• Convert - Free computer program for converting feet to meters, acres to hectares etc
• TreeSearch - Searchable database of US Forest Service publications going back to 1900
• National Learning Center for Private Forest and Range Landowners - A US Forest Service website designed for education

• Conservation Forestry Network - Open Space Institute
• Forest Network Links
• Forest Land Owner Guide to Internet Resources - US Forest Service
• Southern New England Forestry Links - Yale School Forests