Associations/Organizations

International Society of Arboriculture
A look at the largest and
most influential arboricultural
organization in the world.

National Arborist Assoc.
Our mission is to support the
commercial arborist and promote
the tree care profession.

USDA Forest Service,
Northeastern Area
Helping manage trees and
forested landscapes
through expert advice.

New Jersey Division
of Parks and Forestry
Dedicated to the stewardship
of the state's natural resources.

Urban Horticulture Institute,
Cornell.
Improving the quality of
urban life by enhancing the
functions of plants within
the urban ecosystem.

TreeLink.org.
Created to provide information,
research, and networking for
people working in urban
and community forestry.

ArboristSite.com
A loose affiliation of
volunteer tree working
professionals that discuss
the needs of tree care within.

Shade Tree Planting, Maintenance,
Removal, Sidewalks,
Best Management Practices etc.

Tree Maintenance,
Removal and Planting
Ordinance
Hollidaysburg Borough, PA (pdf)

Streets and Sidewalks (pdf)

Trees and Sidewalks

Community Forestry
Fact SheetsOn All
the Above

Community Tree Program
An Organizational and
Procedural Guide to Community
Tree Management (32 pages pdf)

Forestry Principles
for Small Communities
203 pp. (pdf)

Shade and Ornamental Tree
Appraisal

Can Shade Trees Solve
the Energy Crisis? (pdf)

Guide to Preserving Trees
In Development Projects (pdf)

Planting Trees In your
Community Forest
by Sylvan and friends (pdf)

Selecting, Planting,
and Caring for a New Tree
Oregon State

Right Tree
for the Right Place

Recommended Urban Trees
Cornell Univ.
(links to pdf files)

Planting and Care
of Community Trees
(pdf)

Planting Trees
In Landscapes
Go to bottom of page and
click on "click here" to go to
Ed Gilman's tree planting
main page

Tree Maintenance
Timetable
(pdf)

How to
Prune Trees

Keys to
Plant Identification

Beginner's Tree Key

Tree Identification Key
Michigan State

How To Identify Trees
Friesner Herbarium

What Tree is It?
OPLIN & OHS

What Tree
is That?
Arbor Day
Foundation

Tree ID

"Key Out" a tree

An Interactive Key
Identification of
Common Trees
Source:Iowa State U.

Gymnosperm Database

Internet Directory
for Botany

USDA Plants Data Base
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USDA Plants Data Base
Without frames.

Shade Tree Committees,
Commissions, Ordinances

Developing Community Tree Ordinances
A pdf file.
Open with Adobe
Acrobat Reader

Developing Tree Ordinances
Laws that protect trees.

Writing Effective Ordinances
A MS PowerPoint presentation. Use Page Down & Page Up keys.

Why Have a Community
Tree Ordinance?(pdf)
Tree ordinances reflect
the value of a community.

Shade Tree Commission
Making Changes In Ordinances
Radnor Twp. PA.

Street Tree Commission
CHAPTER 278
City of Perrysburg, OH

Master Tree Plan
City of
Southside Place, Texas

Street Tree Program
City of Davis, CA

Trees In Small City Business Districts
Comparing Resident And Visitor Response

Code of Ordinances
City of Portland, Maine

Tree Planting
Program For
Normal, Illinois

Off Street Parking, Loading and
Landscape Requirements

A Community Tree
Preservation Ordinance
A Guide To Developing

How To Fund
Community Forestry

Guidelines for
Developing and Evaluating
Tree Ordinances

Conducting Street Tree and
Urban Forest Resource Inventories
A Volunteer Manual

An Urban Forestry Program
Sustaining and Funding (pdf)

Forest Stewardship
- Backyard Trees (pdf)

Tree Survey:Illinois Small Community
Tree Programs;
Statewide Survey and Assesment (pdf)

Tree Health Care

Selected Topics
Urban Forestry South
Enter Title, Author, Keywords

Drought Information
Kim D. Coder

Forest Health Protection

Plant Pests

Diseases
General

Forest and Shade
Tree Pathology

Deciduous Tree Diseases

Tree disease identification guide
of forest trees

Landscape and Nursery
Tree Diseases

Disease Fact Sheets
Of Trees And Shrubs

Diseases of Ornamentals

Landscape Pest Problem Solver

Scheduling Woody Ornamental
Plant Disease
Management Practices

Unidentified Stress Problems
Plant Disease

Integrated Pest Management
For Park Districts(pdf)

Diseases
Specific

Bacterial Leaf
Scorch

NJ Dept. Forestry
Fact Sheet

Purdue
Fact Sheet

Penn State
Fact Sheet

USNA
Fact Sheet

Rutgers CES
Forestry Symposium (ppt)

Anthracnose disease
of Shade Trees

White Pine
Blister Rust

Sooty Mold
On Trees and Shrubs

Botryosphaeria Canker

Insects
Specific

Asian Longhorned
Beetle (ABL)

Asian Longhorned beetle
APHIS USDA

ABL
Univ. of Vermont

Hemlock Wooly Adelgid
NCSU Entomology

Bronze Birch Borer

Emerald Ash Borer

Forest

Forest Insects and Diseases

Forest and Tree Health
Ask a Forester

Insects
General

Insects on the WWW
Created and Maintained by
Virginia Tech's
Entomology Department

The Bugwood Network
U. of Georgia

Insects On Line
Fact Sheets
Colorado State U.

Hazardous Trees

Tree Diseases
That Create Hazards

The Risk Tree
Web Page

How to recognize hazardous
defects in trees

Community Forestry
Hazard potential

Stem Girdling Roots
Univ. of Minnesota

Things Every
Tree Owner
Should Know

Causes of Bark Splitting
On Trees

Protecting trees and shrubs
against winter damage

Managing winter injury
to shrubs and trees

Avoiding Winter Damage

Minimizing De-Icing
salt injury to trees

Wrongful Death
Personal Injuries and Trees
Joe Samnik