Links from next door and around the world

Trees Around The World

• Trees Are Good - International Society of Arboriculture
•  World Dictionary of Trees
• Trees for Life - an Australian non-profit - (under construction)
  
• The-Tree.org.uk - a charming British site loaded with information
• OneTree - A project from the UK that combines conservation, imagination and sheer artistry
• Heifer International - The Most Important Gift Catalog in the World
• Environmental News Network
• Forest and Shade Tree Pathology
• Tree 4 Life
• Ecology Fund
•  Tree Givers
•  Trees for Life
• Tree News magazine, a British publication

Trees in the United States

• Spirit of Trees, a resource for therapists, educators, environmentalists, storytellers and tree lovers!
• Official Website for the National Cherry Blossom Festival, Washington DC
  
• Recycling Today - Harvesting the Urban Forest
• Plant Facts -- Ohio State University
•  American Forests
• The American Chestnut Foundation
• Center for Urban Forest Research - Pacific Southwest Research Station
• Friends of the Urban Forest - San Francisco
  
• Urban Forest Ecosystems Institute - San Luis Obispo, California
• The Tree Project, celebrating Earth Day, 2002 - the Whatcom Museum of History & Art - Bellingham, WA
• Nine things you should know about trees
• Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
• Benefits of Trees
• Tree Link - To improve urban and community forests by providing information, tools, etc.
  
• BackyardGardener.com: Why We Plant Trees - a site full of links, ideas and solid information
• Help your community -- recycle your Christmas Tree!
• How to Prune Trees - USDA (includes downloadable pdf file)
  

Trees In Wisconsin

• Trees of Wisconsin
•  University of Wisconsin, Extension -- Urban Horticulture
•  Wisconsin DNR Department of  Forestry
•  The Nature Conservancy, Wisconsin Chapter
•  Trees for Tomorrow
• Growing Wisconsin Trees From Seed - UW Extension

Wisconsin's worst forest calamity The Great Peshtigo Fire

• Increase Lapham Surveys Wisconsin's Trees, 1868 - Wisconsin Historical Society
• Pestigo Fire Museum - Article published in Pestigo Times, March 14, 2003
• Ghosts of the Fireground: Echoes of the Great Peshtigo Fire and the Calling of a Wildland Firefighter by Peter M. Leschak
• Firestorm at Peshtigo - A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History, by Denise Gess and William Lutz
  
• The Great Peshtigo Fire: An eyewitness account, by Rev. Peter Pernin - 2nd edition available through Wisconsin Historical Society
• The Great Fires of 1871 in the Northwest, by Prof. I. A. Lapham (Wisconsin Academy Review 1965)
• Fire at Peshtigo,by Robert W. Wells - published by Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968