Disciplines & Professions: Forestry

Web Sites

About.com's Forestry Directory
http://forestry.about.com/

Allows you to search the Web under the rubric of forestry, offers an “In the Spotlight” news feature in addition to a listing of related topics and subject directories to other Web sites.

Open Directory's Forestry Directory
http://dmoz.org/Science/Agriculture/Forestry/

Provides links to 160+ forestry sites, offers visitors additional subject headings under which forestry information is located and offers an annotated list of links to 35+ URLs.

WWW Virtual Library of Forestry
http://www.metla.fi/info/vlib/Forestry/

Allows visitors to search the Web for forestry-related pages, offers information on organizations, services, events, and informational databases relating to forestry.

Yahoo!'s Forestry Directory
http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Agriculture/Forestry/

Annotated list of the most popular forestry Web sites. Allows the Yahoo! search engine to be confined to forestry-related topics, and has links to message boards and chat rooms for further discussion.

Databases

TREECD (CABI, available through SilverPlatter)

This database indexes sources from leading forestry journals. More than 530,000 entries cover a wide array of forestry topics. Abstracts and bibliographic information for entries from 1939 to the present.

Print Resources

Forest Products Abstracts. New York: CABI, 1978-.

This index offers bibliographic information and abstracts on articles specifically about forest products, the forest industry, and wood properties. Organized by subject. Provides author and subject indices.

Forestry Abstracts. New York: CABI, 1940-.

Provides bibliographic information and abstracts of articles concerning forestry. Organized by topic. Yearly cumulative author and subject indices are included.

Helms, John A., ed. The Dictionary of Forestry. Bethesda, MD: The Society of American Foresters, 1998.

A general reference work for those seeking basic explanations of terminology in forest science, management, and conservation. More than 4,500 entries organized alphabetically.

Higman, Sophie, et al. The Sustainable Forestry Handbook. London: Earthscan, 1999.

Aimed at providing information on standards of forest management for forest managers and management teams. In-depth explanations of the standards and how to meet them. Includes an index.

List, Peter C., ed. Environmental Ethics and Forestry: A Reader. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2000.

Intended specifically for students in forestry, natural resources, and environmental science, this book discusses current philosophical and ethical issues in forest management.

McDonald, Peter, and James Lassoie, eds. The Literature of Forestry and Agroforestry. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1996.

Provides an overview of the field, current trends in research, and 4 chapters on specific print resources in forestry. Descriptions of sources include bibliographic information and abstracts.