This page contains links to sites that are either related to Forest Biology, Dendrology, or just plain interesting. Enjoy!

Forest Biology - The Forest Biology homepage at Virginia Tech is where to find the Electronic Textbook, as well as other class information.

The Virginia Big Tree Database - Report a big tree or browse the current champs.

The Virginia Tech Campus Tree Inventory

Remarkable Trees of Virginia Project

Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora - Reports the Virginia county distribution of your favorite flora.

  Tree Sites from other Schools:

• Arizona State University Arboretum - Plant List
• Landscape Horticulture at Auburn University
• Auburn - Trees of Alabama and the Southeast web site
• University of British Columbia's Dendrology Homepage
• CalPhotos: California Plants & Habitats
• Cujamaca College - Ornamental Horticulture class; trees and shrubs
• Sir Sandford Fleming College Trees and Shrubs of Ontario
• University of Catania - Botanical Department
• Iowa State University - Department of Botany
• Iowa State University's Interactive Key
• Iowa State University - Trees and shrubs on campus
• Michigan State - Home Horticulture
• Montana Plant Life - Well done and fairly complete.
• North Carolina State University - Plant fact sheets
• North Carolina State University's Interactive Dendrology
• Catalog of the Woody Plants of Oklahoma: Descriptions and Range Maps
• Oregon State University's Trees of the Pacific Northwest
• Oregon State University - Horticulture
• University of Tennessee Herbarium
• Texas A&M University's Vascular Plant Image Gallery  and Botanical List and Arboreta
• Texas A&M University - Native Plants of South Texas
• Desert Ecology Plants of Tucson - Pima Community College
• University of Arkansas - Woody Landscape Plants Class
• University of Connecticut Plant Database - a good source of ornamental information
• University of Washington's campus Tree Tour
• The Woody Plant Collection at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
• UW - Madison Department of Botany - Image collections
• University of Florida - Environmental Horticulture - No photos but lots of great information
• University of Hawaii - Botany Department Hawaiian Native Plants

Government Sites:

• Forest Service Fire Effects Information - Silvics for a wide variety of species
• Kansas Association for Conservation and Environmental Education
• The Missouri Department of Conservation Hompage
• National Resources Conservation Service (Soil Surveys)
• Ohio's Trees
• Silvics of North America
• USDA Plants Projects Page
• USDA Woody Plant Seed Manual
• USGS - Southern Wetland Flora
• United States Forest Service
• Virginia Cooperative Extension
• Virginia Department of Forestry

Interesting Stuff:

• About.com forestry section - A wealth of forestry information!
• A plant information web page
• Botany.com - Great page including a very extensive glossary including all those strange dendrology terms!
• Dutch trees and treeguide (English)
• e nature.com - National Audubon Society Field Guides
• Flora, Fauna, Earth, and Sky... The Natural History of the Northwoods
• Forest World - The sustainable forest products resource
• Hort.net - Lots of pictures of ornamental species
• Los Arboles En Espana - A Spanish site
• National Interagency Fire Center - Forest fire information
• Marketing Florida Agriculture www.fl-ag.com - Great site! Check out the Florida Forests Forever section.
• MIT Biology Hypertextbook
• Sheffield's Seed Co., Inc. has put together growing information on a very large list of species, includes germination and site requirements.
• Techno Tree Biology Dictionary By Keslick and Son Modern Arboriculture, Associates - features a dictionary and content by Dr. Shigo.
• Tree Biology Dictionary - a bit quirky but well done.
• Treeguide.com has lots of useful tree information.
• Henri D. Grissino-Mayer's Ultimate Tree Ring Web Pages
• Virginia Tech Libraries

Professional Organizations:

• American Chestnut Foundation
• American Forests
• American Society of Consulting Arborists
• Association of Consulting Foresters of America Inc.
• International Society of Arboriculture
• Society of American Foresters
• The National Christmas Tree Association