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The Nobel Peace Prize

  • 2004 Wangari Maathai
    "...for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace."

Green Belt Movement (GBM)
"...is a grassroots non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Kenya that focuses on environmental conservation, community development and capacity building. Prof. Wangari Maathai [winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize] established GBM in 1977, under the auspices of the National Council of Women of Kenya."
Planted 25,000 trees.

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Forestry AgNIC at the University of Minnesota
Major topics include Reference Resources ; Full Text Resources ; Associations/Organizations ; Government Agencies ; Conferences ; Subject Divisions ; Related Sites ; Miscellaneous.
By Jean Albrecht, Forestry Library, University of Minnesota

USDA Forest Service Websites
Search for National Forests by: Interactive Map ; Name ; State ; Region ; National Grasslands ; Phone Directory.

  • FS INFO Database
    "Over 55,000 records and links to Forest Service Research publications dating back to 1904...185,000+ records of natural resources literature...Over 5,850 links to full-text publications."
  • Healthy Forests Initiative

Continue on with: - (dead link) [Africa] African Network for Agroforestry Education (ANAFE)
"...is a network of 117 educational institutions in Africa whose objective is to strengthen the teaching of multi-disciplinary approaches to land management. The ANAFE Coordination Unit is hosted at the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) headquarters in Nairobi."

[Africa] Wakuluzu: Friends of the Colobus Trust
"...is a conservation organisation designed to promote the conservation, preservation and protection of primates like the rare Angolan Colobus monkey (Colobus angolensis palliatus) and its coastal forest habitat in Southern Kenya."

AgriFor
"...is a gateway to evaluated, quality Internet resources in agriculture, food and forestry, aimed at students, researchers, academics and practitioners in agriculture, food or forestry. AgriFor is created by a core team of information specialists and subject experts based at the University of Nottingham Greenfield Medical Library, in partnership with key organisations throughout the UK and further afield...AgriFor is one of the gateways within the BIOME service..."

American Forests - (dead link)

American Forest and Paper Association

American Museum of Natural History

Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Canada - Canadian Forest Service

Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre

Cloud Forest Alive
"Weekly nature lessons, photos, and superb information about the Cloud Forests of Central America and the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor."
"This website was developed to enhance global understanding of the unique and important cloud forests of Central America. Through their impact on water and soil quality, climate patterns, and numerous known and unknown plant and animal species, cloud forests profoundly affect life surrounding them and life around the planet."

Committee for the National Institute for the Environment

Cumulative Watershed Effects: Status, Gaps and Needs - Conference Proceedings - (dead link)
September 7-8, 2000, Sacramento
"Further the dialogue on developing better ways to assess and manage Cumulative Watershed Effects, especially in forested, mixed-ownership watersheds in California."

Dendrology at Virginia Tech
"The Dendrology homepage at Virginia Tech is where to find tree identification
fact sheets on over 450 species of trees, as well as lots of other tree information."
By Dr. John R. Seiler and John A. Peterson, Virginia Tech - Department of Forestry

DRYAD - A Database of Trees - (dead link)
"This searchable database contains 958 species and cultivars selected for use in the Dutch urban environment. For each tree, an extensive description was compiled by IBN-DLO, the Institute for Forestry and Nature Research."

The Economics of Forestry: A Reference Book for Students of Political Economy and Professional and Lay Students of Forestry
By Bernhard E. Fernow, 1902

Educational Council on Indic Traditions - Ecology Articles
Includes the following articles by Deep N. Panday, Indian Forest Service, India:

FIRE GLOBE: The Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC)
The GFMC is an Activity of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Forest Conservation Portal
"Vast Rainforest, Forest and Biodiversity Conservation News & Information."

Forest Ethics
Formerly the Coastal Rainforest Coalition
"Forest Ethics' efforts are aimed at creating pressure for the preservation of forests, the reform of forestry practices and the promotion of robust markets for ecologically sound alternatives."

Forest Genetics & Tree Breeding
 A well organized collection of professional and academic resources.
World-Wide Web Virtual Library
Maintained by Matti Haapanen, Finish Forestry Research Institute

Forest History Society - (dead link)

  • Bibliography - (dead link)
    "The Bibliography contains over 33,000 annotated citations to books, articles and dissertations providing a historical perspective."

ForestWorld
Includes: NewsCenter, Woods of the World, Photo Gallery ; Certification & Sustainability ; Forest Industry ; Internet Directory (database of over 6000 forestry industry resources).

[Germany] Biologische Bundesanstalt für Land- und Forstwirtschaft (BBA) (Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry) (German or English)
"...is engaged in plant pathology, entomology, plant protection and related fields. The BBA concerns itself with the effect of pesticides on humans, animals and the environment. The German Plant Protection Act defines the majority of its duties."

  • Phytomed - Database
    "The online searchable database PHYTOMED includes over 452.000 literature citations, partially abstracted, from 1 500 national and international sources (specialist periodicals, monographs, dissertations, offprints, proceedings, annual reports etc.) from 1965 to 1995 inclusively."

Global Forest Watch
 "...an international data and mapping network that combines on-the-ground knowledge with digital technology to provide accurate information about the world's forests."

Global Trees Campaign
Campaign to Save the World's Threatened Tree Species
"Over 8000 tree species, 10% of the worldís total, are threatened with extinction. We aim to help conserve them through information, conservation and wise use."

  • Towards a Global Tree Conservation Atlas (August 2003) [.pdf]
    "highlights the plight of five ëflagshipí species which the Global Trees Campaign is working hard to save...This is a preliminary publication for a more comprehensive atlas that will review the distribution of many of the world's globally threatened trees."

Headwaters Project
"...scientific study of the effects of the proposed land transfer on the Marbled Murrelet."
Analysis of the proposed land swap and forestry activity

History of Logging in Oregon
Timeline

India - Ministry of Environment & Forests

 

International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF)
"...established in Nairobi in 1977, is an autonomous, non-profit research body supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. ICRAF aims to improve human welfare by alleviating poverty, improving food and nutritional security, and enhancing environmental resilience in the tropics...ICRAF conducts strategic and applied research, in partnership with national agricultural research systems, for more sustainable and productive land use."

International Forest Fire News (IFFN)
"(including detailed fire reports and statistics from 70 nations)"
"...is published on behalf of the Joint FAO/ECE/ILO Committee on Forest Technology, Management and Training and its secretariat, the Timber Section, UN-ECE Trade Division."

[Kenya] Green Belt Movement (GBM)
"...is a grassroots non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Kenya that focuses on environmental conservation, community development and capacity building. Prof. Wangari Maathai [winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize] established GBM in 1977, under the auspices of the National Council of Women of Kenya."
Planted 25,000 trees.

Max Planck Institute for Chemistry - Fire Ecology Research Group

METLA: Finnish Forest Research Institute

National Academy Press (free downloads)

National Association of State Foresters
"...is a non-profit organization that represents the directors of the State Forestry agencies forty-nine states, eight U.S. territories (American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, the Northern Marianas Islands, Palau, Puerto Rico, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands), and the District of Columbia."

National Fire Plan
Managing the Impact of Wildfires on the Communities and the Environment
"...a cooperative, long-term effort of the USDA Forest Service, Department of the Interior, and the National Association of State Foresters. As you visit this site, you will see how the federal government and state partners are managing impacts of wildland fire to our Nation's communities."
Sections include: Firefighting ; Rehabilitation/Restoration ; Hazardous Fuel Reduction ; Community Assistance ; Accountability ; Research ; Overview ; Links.

National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) (Boise, ID)

National Park Service - ParkNet

National Parks
Magazine of the National Parks Conservation Association

nationalgeograhic.com - Fire Call: A Wildland Firefighter Speaks
Hear and see Norbert Schuster's story about fighting forest fires.

Natural Resources Defense Council - Forests
"NRDC fights to transform the government's role in our national forests from selling timber to providing long-term protection."

  • End of the Road
    The Adverse Ecological Impacts of Roads and Logging: A Compilation of Independently Reviewed Research.

New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF)

North American Forest Commission

Northern Alaska Environmental Center
"...promotes conservation of the environment in Interior and Arctic Alaska through advocacy, education, and sustainable resource stewardship."
Sections include: Arctic ; Boreal Forest ; Denali Watch ; Local Issues ; Mining ; Camp Habitat.

On the Duty of Governments in the Preservation of Forests,
Franklin B. Hough, 1873. A paper read at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in Portland, Maine, this inspires the Association to prepare and submit a Memorial on forest preservation to Congress, which initiates Congressional interest in forest protection.
- American Memory, Library of Congress

Pacific Northwest Logging History
VanNatta Logging History Museum of Northwest Oregon

PBS American Field Guide - Teacher Resources
"American Field Guide is a tremendous resource for you and your students. Embedded within this site you will find lesson plans that weave segments of video together into units of inquiry around specific topics. The lessons in the units of inquiry were all written by high school teachers and draw upon national and state standards for science learning."

PBS NOVA - Fire Wars
"...the companion Web site to 'Fire Wars,' scheduled for broadcast on May 7, 2002. In the program, NOVA accompanies the men and women of a wildland firefighting crew known as the Arrowhead Hotshots as they battle one of the most destructive wildfire seasons ever, the summer of 2000."
Sections include: The Producer's Story ; The World on Fire ; How Plants Use Fire ; Outfitting Wildland Firefighters ; Wildfire Simulator ; On Fire ; Glossary ; Resources ; Teacher's Guide ; Fire Survey ; Resources ; Transcript.

Russian Forests (English or Russian)
"This site is about Russian forests, their conservation and sustainable usage. The site is supported by a community of Russian environmental non-governmental organizations...We will share with You official data available, as far as provide our comments and evaluations. We will also tell You about official concept of Russian forestry and guide You through complicated Russian forest legislation and regulations.

Silva Fennica
 Online
"...a peer-reviewed international journal of forest science. It covers all aspects of forest research, ranging from basic to applied subjects."

Society of American Foresters

Stephen F. Austin State University Library - East Texas Research Center - (dead link)

  • African-American Lumbermen: Their Homes and Families (CA. 1908) - (dead link)

Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) (India)

Timber Product Output (TPO) Database Retrieval System
Forest Inventory and Analysis
"This system acts as an interface to a standard set of consistently coded TPO data for each State and county in the Country. This national set of TPO data consists of 11 data variables that describe for each county the roundwood products harvested, the logging residues left behind, the timber otherwise removed, and the wood and bark residues generated by its primary wood-using mills. These national timber removals and mill residue data were compiled for calendar year 1996 from the latest TPO studies available for each State at the time of the databaseís establishment in 11/97, and are the basis for the TPO estimates reported in the 1997 Resources Planning Act (RPA) Assessment of the Nationís forests."
[Updates through spring 1999 as of 10/02/00]

Tree Conservation Database
"holds information on threatened species and others of conservation concern. This database is used to generate The World List of Threatened Trees, and the information is available here in interactive format."
World Conservation Monitoring Centre

TreeGuide: The Natural History of Trees - (dead link)
"...presents the natural history of trees in database format. The database includes information about the identification, ecology, life history, distribution and utilization of trees. For now, we are concentrating our efforts on trees of North America, including native, naturalized and ornamental species."

Union of Concerned Scientists

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE)

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

United Nations - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

  • World Agricultural Information Centre (WAICENT) Portal
    Includes: "Thousands of full-text publications and technical documents on agriculture, fisheries, nutrition and forestry, available through the Internet, on specific subjects such as trends in trade, country-specific information, food safety and deforestation ... Codes of conduct, interactive tools for use at the national level, and early warning and disaster prevention systems ... Data, including maps and charts, obtained through the FAO online statistical databases, containing over one million time-series records, covering international statistics in the area of agricultural production, trade indices, food supply, land and food aid ...Thousands of other multimedia resources available on the FAO Web site."

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

  • Forest Service
  • USDA UVB Radiation Monitoring Program
    "...is a program of the US Department of Agriculture's Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES). The program was initiated in 1992, through a grant to Colorado State University, to provide information on the geographical distribution and temporal trends of UVB (ultraviolet -B) radiation in the United States. This information is critical to the assessment of the potential impacts of increasing ultraviolet radiation levels on agricultural crops and forests."

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of the Interior

  • Bureau of Land Management
  • National Park Service - ParkNet
    • National Park Service History
      Sections include: Online Books ; Historical Themes ; Maritime History ; Research and Education.
      • Birds and Mammals of Mount McKinley National Park
        By Joseph S. Dixon
        Fauna Series No.3 - 1938
        Fauna of the National Parks of the United States
      • Confinement and Ethnicity
        An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites
        Publications in Anthropology 74 1999 (rev. July 2000)
        Sections include: Essay ; Brief History ; Gila River ; Granada ; Heart Mountain ; Jerome ; Manzanar ; Minidoka ; Poston ; Rohwer ; Topaz ; Tule Lake ; Isolation Centers ; Isolation Centers ; Additional Facilities ; Assembly Centers ; Prisons
      • Thinking About National Park Service History
        Sections include: A Historian's Experience in the NPS ; Famous Quotes ; Humanities Report ; Themes & Concepts ; Thoughts on the Preservation of Place ; Philosophical Underpinnings of the National Park Idea.
    • NatureNet
      The National Park Service's Natural Resource Web Site
      Sections include: Air ; Biology ; Geology ; Social Science ; Water ; Publications.
  • Park Science
    "...is a research and resource management bulletin of the National Park Service. It reports recent and ongoing natural and social science research, its implications for park planning and management, and its application in resource management. Articles describe both experiments that relate to resource conservation and the application of science in resource management practices. Semi-technical in nature, Park Science is edited for the lay reader."
  • Mount Rainer National Park
    "Established in 1899. 235,625 acres (97% is designated Wilderness). Includes Mount Rainier (14,410'), an active volcano encased in over 35 square miles of snow and ice. The park contains outstanding examples of old growth forests and subalpine meadows."
  • Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks
    • Fire Information Cache
      • Fire and Park Resources
        "Researchers at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks have investigated the role of fire in park ecosystems for many years and have produced many papers on fire and fire management. Some of this research information is available as on-line papers from this Web site."
  • FireNet
    Fire & Aviation Management
    Sections include: Wildland Fire ; Structural Fire ; Aviation ; Educational Resources ; General Information.

USGS - Central Region Earth Surface Process Team
"This website presents information related to activities of the former Global Change and Climate History Team."

USGS - Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center (FRESC) - (dead link)
Sections include: Research ; Current News ; Product Library ; Field Stations ; Fact Sheets.

  • Olympic Field Station - (dead link)
  • LTEM: Monitoring Northern Spotted Owl Populations in Olympic National Park - (dead link)
  • Northern Spotted Owl Inventories in National Parks Publications - (dead link)

USGS - GAP - A Geographic Approach to Planning for Biological Diversity
National Gap Analysis Program

  • Applications - (dead link)
  • European Forests and Protected Areas- Gap Analysis
    "This gap analysis of forest protected areas in Europe provides relevant information on the distribution and conservation status of European temperate forests. The project was a collaboration between UNEP-WCMC and WWF."

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) see Geology Resources - USGS

U.S. White House

University of California - Integrated Hardwood Range Management Program

University of Minnesota - Forestry Library

University of Washington - Center for Urban Horticulture, College of Forest Resources

University of Washington - Forest Resources Library - (dead link)
"The UW Forest Resources Library contains the most comprehensive collection of forestry and forest products information in the Northwest."

Urban Habitats (electronic journal)
"A peer-reviewed electronic journal on the biology of urban areas around the world."

Virginia Tech - Department of Forestry

Virginia Tech - Reynolds Homestead Forest Resources Research Center

Virginia Tech - International Forestry Center

Washington [State] Forest Law Center
"...is a nonprofit corporation providing legal services for forest cases of statewide significance and specializes in cases involving timber harvest and public resource issues on state and private lands."

Woodland Network
"This Web site offers three interactive environmental projects that link students around the world in the collection and sharing of data from woodlands research, while raising public awareness of environmental issues...The site provides students with instructions on how to conduct woodland research, facilitates the sharing of data by allowing students to submit their results to a database, and provides access to information about woodland areas around the world."

World Resources Institute - EarthTrends: The Environmental Information Portal
Sections include: Coastal and Marine Ecosystems ; Water Resources and Freshwater Ecosystems ; Climate and Atmosphere ; Population ; Economics ; Energy and Resources ; Biodiversity ; Agriculture and Food ; Forests and Grasslands ; Environmental Governance and Institutions.
--World Resources Institute

Woody Plant Ecology
Topics include: Invasive woody plants ; Temperate Forest Ecology ; Tropical Forest Ecology ; Forestry ; Sand Dune Ecology ; Publications.
By Pierre Binggeli

WWW Virtual Library: Forestry
Topics include Legislation, and Forest Policy
Maintained by Jarmo Saarikko and Kimmo K. Kolari


Historic U.S. Legislation
Timber Culture Act, 1873
To promote the growth of timber on western Prairies.
"..granting settlers 160-acre plots if they have cultivated trees on one-fourth of the land for ten years; the act reveals the growing public concern with conservation of forest resources, though it ultimately proves unenforceable and is repealed in 1891."
American Memory, Library of Congress

Forest Reserve Act, 1891
 An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes, repeals Timber Culture Act of 1873

The Forest Management Act, or Organic Act, 1897
"...making explicit the purpose of Forest Reserves (later National Forests) as resources for lumbering, mining, and grazing and providing the blueprint for their management until the 1960s."
American Memory, Library of Congress

U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. 18, Pt. 3, Chap. 151, pp. 481-82 (1875)
An act to protect ornamental and other trees on Government reservations and on lands purchased by the United States, and for other purposes
"Reflects public concern for the aesthetic value of trees at a time before scientific forest management had come to the fore in public policy, as well as concern for conservation of a public resource."
American Memory, Library of Congress

U.S. Trade Internet System
"Featuring United States Exports, Imports and Re-Exports of Agricultural, Fish, Forest, and Textile Products with the World!"
U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA