The Treeware Website Index
The index contains an annotated listing of more than 1,000 forest and tree related websites.
Featured Websites
New or revised entries in the Treeware Website Index as of December 25, 2011.
Art
Legacy Institute for Nature and Culture
We are a conservation communications organization designed to strengthen the message of our partner artists and storytellers to inspire the protection of Florida's cultural and natural heritage.
Botany
Vascular Plant Image Gallery
A repository of over 8,800 plant images developed and maintained by the TAMU-BWG, plus those made available by collaborators, is available for public use through the Vascular Plant Image Gallery.
Carbon Sequestration
Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership
Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership is a regional network of more than 100 stakeholders with a common goal of determining the best approaches for capturing and permanently storing gases that can contribute to global climate change.
Conservation: Economics
Natural Capital Project
Our partnership is a joint venture among Stanford University's Woods Institute for the Environment, University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment, The Nature Conservancy, and World Wildlife Fund. In short, we engage leaders in key institutions and meld world-class research and development with influential, on-the-ground conservation programs. We are developing tools for quantifying the values of natural capital in clear, credible, and practical ways. In promising a return (of societal benefits) on investments in nature, the scientific community needs to deliver knowledge and tools to quantify and forecast this return.
Economics
Ecosystem Valuation
Each section of this site consists of a series of short, stand-alone, articles on specific topics. This "loose-leaf" format allows you to use the site as a reference source, or to browse and stop on topics of special interest. The site is also intended to serve as a forum for users to share their experiences with ecosystem valuation.
Environmental Protection
Oregon Wild
Founded in 1974, Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for all Oregonians. Oregon Wild (formerly the Oregon Natural Resources Council or ONRC) has been instrumental in securing permanent legislative protection for some of Oregon's most precious landscapes, including nearly 1.7 million acres of Wilderness, 95,000 acres of forests in Bull Run/Little Sandy watersheds (to safeguard the quality of Portland's water supply) and almost 1,800 miles of Wild and Scenic Rivers.
Equipment and Supplies
NCP Coatings Inc.: Bark Mark
BarkMark® Tree Marking Paint offers highly visible colors, water-soluble cleanup and ease of application down to -20°F. BarkMark® Boundry Marking Paints, and the new BarkMark® Back Pack Sprayer offer a complete timber marking system.
History
National Forests in North Carolina Historic Photographs
The National Forests in North Carolina Historic Photographs (NFNC) include approximately 1800 images dating from c. 1896 to the 1980s. The Biltmore Forest School photographs, dating from 1898 - 1913, are some of the most exceptional holdings in this collection. Also included are large panoramic photographs and many negatives taken by NFNC staff and others. A small body of publications from the Cradle of Forestry and from the US Department of Agriculture accompany the collection.
Investment
National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries: Timberland Committee
NCREIF was established to serve the institutional real estate investment community as a non-partisan collector processor validator and disseminator of real estate performance information.
Land Preservation
Conservation & Preservation Counsel, L.L.C.
Contact our nationally recognized conservation easement attorney to negotiate and draft conservation easements, land purchase and sale contracts and conservation easement enforcement demands for land trusts and landowners. Our attorney can also assist land trusts and landowners in reducing property taxes, creating and marketing carbon offsets and protecting Native American cultural assets.
Land Use
Headwaters Economics
Headwaters Economics is an independent, nonprofit research group. The staff at Headwaters Economics blends innovative research techniques and extensive on-the-ground experience working with a range of partners across the West for more than 20 years. The mission of Headwaters Economics is to improve community development and land management decisions in the West.
Research: Australia
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation: Forestry
CCSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) provides research activities from quantitative genetics, to precision plantation management, to smart paper and wood products of the future.
Sustainability
Proforest
Proforest helps companies, government departments, non-governmental and civil society organisations to achieve the sustainable use of the world's natural resources. We work at all levels from international policy and legislation to practical operations on the ground to support the development and implementation of workable environmental and social standards and safeguards. Our focus areas include the forestry and timber sectors, agricultural commodities, REDD+ and climate change issues, and identification and management of High Conservation Values.
Training
Natural Areas Training Academy
To meet the demand for trained personnel, the Natural Areas Training Academy program was developed through a partnership of The Nature Conservancy, the world's leading private, non-profit conservation organization, and The University of Florida IFAS Extension. The Natural Areas Training Academy brings together regional land management experts from numerous agencies and organizations as well as extension specialists and agents to provide training and share experiences with newer land managers.