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Below is a list of books on trees and forestry, (a couple fiction and essays also) available for downloading from the internet for free. Most of these were accessed from http://www.archive.org I intend to work through more of the listings and this is the first of several lists I will post. If you scroll through it I am sure there are some of interest to many of you. They are just in the order I fund them. There are general tree books and books specific for several states, and just some curiosities as well. These books and their illustrations are in the public domain, although some may require a credit to the source. I have limited the list to those written prior to 1920. You can search for books, films, etc, by going to this site: http://www.archive.org/ There is a search box near the top of the page to type in your request. In general I would do a basic search, then look over the results and do an advanced search if you did not find what you wanted. The advanced search option comes up a the top of every results page - but for some reason not on the homepage. http://www.archive.org/advancedsearch.php?q= For my search to get these books I typed just the word "trees" in the first blank where it said "Any Field." I did not select anything else on the page until the last blanks where I set the "Date range: between 1800 - 1920. You can search by media type, date range, and multiple search words. look to find old books with information on almost any subject. For example with just the search words "forest Pennsylvania" with no other selections there were 58 results - some of these are several books about the "Black Forest of PA" and some video clips, as well as other results that aren't really relevant. So use this resource to find information about the history of sites. To find tree guides and keys - the nomenclature may be out of date, but the illustrations are sometimes fantastic. Edward Frank January 31, 2009 Western Pennsylvania Sitka spruce: its uses, growth and management (1922) http://www.archive.org/details/sitkaspruceitsus00cary 68 pp., 3.8 MB Author: Cary, N. Leroy. [from old catalog] Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off. Forest laws concerning railroads (1907) http://www.archive.org/details/forestlawsconcer00mass 12 pp., 323 kb Author: Massachusetts. Laws, statutes, etc; Massachusetts. State Forester; Rane, F. Wm. (Frank William), 1868-1933 Utilization of basswood (1922) http://www.archive.org/details/utilizationofbas00brus 80 pp., 3.8 MB Author: Brush, Warren David, 1881- Recreation uses on the national forests (1918) http://www.archive.org/details/recreationuseson00waug 52 pp., 3.3 Mb Author: Waugh, F. A. (Frank Albert), 1869-1943; United States. Forest Service The North-west passage by land [microform] : being the narrative of an expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific : undertaken with the view of exploring a route across the continent to British Columbia through British territory, by one of the northern passes in the Rocky Mountains (1865) http://www.archive.org/details/cihm_02173 479 pp., 38 MB Author: Milton, William Fitzwilliam, Viscount, 1839-1877; Cheadle, W. B. (Walter Butler), 1835-1910 Forest planting in New Jersey (1913) http://www.archive.org/details/forestplantingin00newj 46 pp., 2 MB Author: New Jersey. Forest Park Reservation Commission; Gaskill, Alfred, 1861- Handbook of field and office problems in forest mensuration (1922) http://www.archive.org/details/handbookoffieldo00wink 156 pp., 9.2 Mb Author: Winkenwerder, Hugo, b. 1878; Clark, Elias Treat, 1886- The Forest Trees of North America (January 1, 1891) http://www.archive.org/details/39088000610261 65 pp., 4 MB Author: Gray, Asa The Woods and Timbers of North Carolina (1883) http://www.archive.org/details/woodstimbersofno00hale 288 pp, 14.8 MB Author: Hale, Peter M; Curtis, M. A. (Moses Ashley), 1808-1872 The Sieur de Monts national monument and its historical associations Volume 1.. (1917) http://www.archive.org/details/thesieurdemontsn01dorr 72 pp., 7.3 Mb Author: Dorr, George B. (George Bucknam), 1853-1944; Smith, Herbert Augustine; Dwight, Timothy, 1752-1817 Volume: 1 The Sieur de Monts national monument and its historical associations .Volume 2. (1917) http://www.archive.org/details/thesieurdemontsn02dorr 72 pp., 8 Mb Author: Dorr, George B. (George Bucknam), 1853-1944; Smith, Herbert Augustine; Dwight, Timothy, 1752-1817 , Volume: 2 Landscape engineering in the national forests (1918) http://www.archive.org/details/landscapeenginee00waug 42 pp., 1.8 MB Author: Waugh, F. A. (Frank Albert), 1869-1943; United States. Forest Service Forest fancies (1917) http://www.archive.org/details/forestfancies00kell 232 pp., 11.4 MB Author: Kellerhouse, Lucy Charlton The Spell of the Rockies (1911) http://www.archive.org/details/spellofrockies00milliala 420 pp., 30.5 MB Author: Mills, Enos Abijah, 1870-1922 Our national parks (1901) http://www.archive.org/details/nationalparksour00muirrich 3414 pp., 35.5 Mb Author: Muir, John, 1838-1914 Where the forest murmurs. Nature essays (1906) http://www.archive.org/details/whereforestmurmu00shar 376 pp., 19.6 MB Author: Sharp, William, 1855-1905 Alarming destruction of American forests [microform] (1883) http://www.archive.org/details/cihm_09126 24 pp,. 1.3 MB Author: Little, William, b. 1836 Instructions to forest wardens (1903) http://www.archive.org/details/instructionstofo00penn 32 pp., 1.4 MB Author: Pennsylvania. Dept. of Forest and Waters; Williams, I. C The book of forestry (1916) http://www.archive.org/details/bookofforestrymo00moonrich 342 pp., 41.6 MB Author: Moon, Frederick Franklin, b. 1880 Principles of American forestry (1907) http://www.archive.org/details/principlesofamer00greerich 394 pp., 36.3 MB Author: Green, Samuel B. (Samuel Bowdlear), 1859-1910 Forest preservation in Canada [microform] (1885) http://www.archive.org/details/cihm_02768 12 pp., 350 KB Author: Drummond, A. T. (Andrew Thomas), 1843-1923 List of large, old and interesting trees (in MA) (1892) http://www.archive.org/details/listoflargeoldin00mass 16 pp., 1.4 Mb Author: Massachusetts Horticultural Society Mariposa grove of big trees : a short history of the Mariposa big trees & the Yosemite Valley (1910) http://www.archive.org/details/mariposagroveofb00leit 38 pp., 3.1 Mb Author: Leitch, B. M Annual wholesale catalogue of American trees, shrubs, plants and seeds : cultivated and for sale at the Linn©an Botanic Garden and Nurseries, near New-York (1832) http://www.archive.org/details/annualwholesalec00wmrp 50 pp., 2.56 MB Author: Wm. R. Prince & Co A primer of forestry (1899) http://www.archive.org/details/primerofforestry00pincrich 134 pp., 19.3 MB Author: Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946; Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946; Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946 Forestry; (1918) http://www.archive.org/details/forestry00nort 32 pp., 1.4 MB Author: North Carolina Forestry Association; Ucker, Clement S; Mitchell, J. Alfred Forestry (1896) http://www.archive.org/details/forestryvolume00commgoog 175 pp., 7 MB Author: Minnesota. Forestry commissioner. [from old catalog] Woodlot forestry (1905) http://www.archive.org/details/woodlotforestry00clar 16 pp., 827 kb Author: Clark, Judson Freeman, b. 1870 Private forestry (1919) http://www.archive.org/details/privateforestry00gravrich 14 pp., 1.9 Mb Author: Graves, Henry S. (Henry Solon), 1871-1951; New England Forestry Conference (1919 : Boston) Forestry work (1919) http://www.archive.org/details/forestrywork00wheluoft 244 pp., 9.5 MB Author: Whellens, W. H Farm forestry (1916) http://www.archive.org/details/farmforestry00fergrich 346 pp., 44.5 MB Author: Ferguson, John Arden Forest Trees (1871) http://www.archive.org/details/foresttrees00bryagoog 291 pp, 8.79 Mb Author: Arthur Bryant Pennsylvania trees (1915) http://www.archive.org/details/pennsylvaniatree00illirich 408 pp., 70.2 MB Author: Illick, Joseph Simon, 1884- Familiar trees (1906) http://www.archive.org/details/familiartrees01boulgoog 304 pp, 8.02 MB Author: Boulger, George Simonds, 1853-1922 Among green trees; a guide to pleasant and profitable acquaintance with familiar trees (1902) http://www.archive.org/details/amonggreentreesg00roge 288 pp., 21 MB Author: Rogers, Julia Ellen, b. 1866 Our woodland trees (1878) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924089504876 616 pp., 11 MB Author: Heath, Francis George, 1843-1913 Studies of trees (1914) http://www.archive.org/details/studiestrees00levigoog 271 pp,. 4.88 MB Author: Levison, Jacob Joshua, 1881- The trees of California (1909) http://www.archive.org/details/treescalifornia00jepsgoog 277 pp., 6.36 MB Author: Jepson, Willis Linn, 1867-1946 With the trees (1903) 382 pp., 8.97 MB Author: Going, Maud, 1859-1925 Big trees of California (1914) http://www.archive.org/details/bigtreescalifor00compgoog 45 pp., 1.96 MB Author: Southern Pacific Company Studies of trees (1914) http://www.archive.org/details/studiesoftrees00levirich 282 pp., 33 MB Author: Levison, Jacob Joshua, 1881- The trees of America (1855) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924002878621 108 pp., 6.09 MB Author: Piper, Richard Upton, 1816-1897 The trees of Vermont (1916) http://www.archive.org/details/treesvermont00otisgoog 265 pp., 11 MB Author: Burns, George Plumer, 1871-1953; Otis, Charles Herbert, 1886- joint author West Virginia trees (1920) http://www.archive.org/details/westvirginiatree00broo 260 pp., 15 MB Author: Brooks, A. B. (Alonzo Beecher), 1873-1944 American forest trees; (1913) http://www.archive.org/details/americanforesttr00gibsuoft 742 pp., 65 MB Author: Gibson, Henry H, 1855-; Maxwell, Hu, 1860- Our Woodland Trees (1878) http://www.archive.org/details/ourwoodlandtree00heatgoog 612 pp., 7.45 MB Author: Francis George Heath Forests and trees (1919) http://www.archive.org/details/foreststrees00halerich 228 pp., 21 MB Author: Hales, Benjamin Jones, 1868- Trees for Long Island (1908) http://www.archive.org/details/treesforlongisla00hickrich 46 pp., 9.15 MB Author: Hicks, Isaac, & son, N.Y New England trees in winter (1911) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924001242688 288 pp., 13 MB Author: Blakeslee, Albert Francis, 1874-1954; Jarvis, Chester Deacon, 1876-1948; Blakeslee, Albert Francis, 1874-1954. New England trees in winter Getting acquainted with the trees (1904) http://www.archive.org/details/gettingacquaint00mcfagoog 277 pp., 7.08 MB Author: McFarland, J. Horace (John Horace), 1859-1948 The historic trees of Massachusetts (1919) http://www.archive.org/details/historictreesma00simmgoog 241 pp., 4.38MB Author: Simmons, James Raymond The romance of our trees (1920) http://www.archive.org/details/romanceourtrees00wilsgoog 355 pp., 3.7 MB Author: Wilson, Ernest Henry, 1876-1930 The trees of northeastern America (1890) http://www.archive.org/details/treesnortheaste00britgoog 277 pp., 4.25 MB Author: Newhall, Charles Stedman, 1842- Our field and forest trees (1916) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924000541957 284 pp., 5 MB Author: Going, Maud, 1859-1925 Trees in prose and poetry; (1902) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924001791049 208 pp., 3.35 Mb Author: Stone, Gertrude Lincoln, comp; Fickett, Mary Grace, joint comp Familiar trees and their leaves (1896) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924002051302 348 pp., 9 MB Author: Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938 Forest trees and forest scenery (1901) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924002978462 258 pp., 3.92 MB Author: Schwarz, George Frederick, 1868- Getting acquainted with the trees (1904) http://www.archive.org/details/gettingacquaint00mcfa 280 pp., 17 mb Author: McFarland, J. Horace (John Horace), 1859-1948 guide to the trees (1900) http://www.archive.org/details/guidetotrees00loun 478 pp., 22 Mb Author: Lounsberry, Alice A Familiar Talk about Trees (1883) http://www.archive.org/details/afamiliartalkab00houggoog 23 pp, 700 kb Author: Franklin Benjamin Hough Shade Trees for North Carolina (1908) http://www.archive.org/details/shadetreesforno00ashegoog 109 pp., 4.34 MB Author: William Willard Ashe A Guide to the Trees (1900) http://www.archive.org/details/aguidetotrees00loungoog 471 pp., 14 Mb Author: Alice Lounsberry Growth studies in forest trees (1914) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924000663033 92 pp., 2.35 Mb Author: Brown, Harry Philip, 1887- Ornamental Trees for Massachusetts Plantations (1881) http://www.archive.org/details/ornamentaltrees00robigoog 33pp., 1.44 Mb Author: John Robinson Notes: "From the twenty-eighth Annual report of the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture." Trees in nature, myth and art (1907) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924014459774 413 pp., 7.30 MB Author: Phythian, John Ernest, 1858- Forest trees of the Pacific slope (1908) http://www.archive.org/details/foresttreespaci03sudwgoog 483 pp., 44 Mb Author: United States. Forest Service; Sudworth, George Bishop, 1864-1927 Native trees of Kentucky : a handbook (1910) http://www.archive.org/details/nativetreeskent00maurgoog 145 pp., 3.52 Mb Author: Maury, Sarah Webb, 1861- Trees and shrubs of Prospect park (1902) http://www.archive.org/details/treesandshrubsp00peetgoog 264 pp., 3.07 MB Author: Peet, Louis Harman. [from old catalog] Trees and shrubs of Central Park (1903) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924002815342 450 pp., 7.32 MB Author: Peet, Louis Harman, 1863- Timber trees and forests of North Carolina (1897) Vol. 5 http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924002881187 286 pp., 9.31 Mb Author: Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946; Ashe, W. W. (William Willard), 1872-1932 Timber trees and forests of North Carolina (1897) Vol. 6 &7 http://www.archive.org/details/timbertreesandf00ashegoog 265 pp., 13 Mb Author: Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-; Ashe, W. W. (William Willard), 1872-1932, joint author Volume: nos. 6-7 Timber trees and forests of North Carolina (1897) http://www.archive.org/details/timbertreesfores00pinc 294 pp., 17 Mb Author: Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946; Ashe, W. W. (William Willard), 1872-1932 The trees of Commonwealth Avenue, Boston (1909) http://www.archive.org/details/treesofcommonwea00sarg 16 pp., 536 kb Author: Sargent, Charles Sprague, 1841-1927 American forest trees, by Henry H. Gibson; (1913) http://www.archive.org/details/americanforestt00gibs 742 pp., 29 Mb Author: Gibson, Henry H., 1855-; Maxwell, Hu The indigenous trees of the Hawaiian Islands (1913) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924000546493 540 pp., 33 Mb Author: Rock, Joseph Francis Charles, 1884-1962 Shade trees, indigenous shrubs and vines (1883) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924002872004 44 pp., 1.21 Mb Author: Stewart, J. T Report on the Big Trees of California (1900) http://www.archive.org/details/reportonbigtree01servgoog 79 pp., 2.19 Mb Author: United States Forest Service Notes: At head of title : Senate, 56th Congress, 1st Session, Document no. 393. Timber and Timber Trees, Native and Foreign (1894) http://www.archive.org/details/timberandtimber00laslgoog 468 pp., 7.45 Mb Author: Thomas Laslett Trees, Fruits, and Flowers of Minnesota (1909) http://www.archive.org/details/treesfruitsandf00socigoog 565 pp., 16 Mb Author: Minnesota State Horticultural Society , Minnesota State Horticultural Society Fieldbook of American Trees and Shrubs (1915) http://www.archive.org/details/fieldbookameric01mathgoog 635 pp., 28 Mb Author: F. Schuyler Mathews Some Foreign Trees for the Southern States (1895) http://www.archive.org/details/someforeigntree00ferngoog 65 pp., 1.98 Mb Author: Bernhard Eduard Fernow Tree Guide: Trees East of the Rockies (1914) http://www.archive.org/details/treeguidetreese00rogegoog 288 pp., 4.20 Mb Author: Julia Ellen Rogers Trees in Nature, Myth and Art (1907) http://www.archive.org/details/treesinnaturemy00phytgoog 409 pp., 6.31 Mb Author: John Ernest Phythian Notes: Several of the plates are copies of famous paintings. Injuries to shade trees from electricity (1903) http://www.archive.org/details/injuriestoshadet00stonrich 32 pp., 4.00 MB Author: Stone, George E. (George Edward), 1860-1941 The American handbook of ornamental trees (1853) http://www.archive.org/details/ornamentaltrees00meehrich 286 pp., 13 Mb Author: Meehan, Thomas, 1826-1901; Making of America Project Street and Park Trees for Wisconsin Communities (1916) http://www.archive.org/details/streetandparktr00commgoog 57 pp., 1/07 Mb Author: Mildred Alice Castle , Wisconsin State Conservation Commission , Wisconsin, State Conservation Commission Wild flowers and trees of Colorado (1909) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924001720105 98 pp., 2.64 Mb Author: Ramaley, Francis, 1870-1942 Report on the Big Trees of California (1900) http://www.archive.org/details/reportonbigtree00servgoog 69 pp., 3.33 Mb Author: United States Forest Service Canadian timber trees: their distribution and preservation (1879) http://www.archive.org/details/canadiantimbertr00drumuoft 34 pp., 1.90 Mb Author: Drummond, Andrew Thomas, 1844-1921 Davey's primer on trees and birds (1905) http://www.archive.org/details/daveysprimerontr00daverich 180 pp., 18 Mb Author: Davey, John, 1846-1923 A four-fold word for trees (1909) http://www.archive.org/details/fourfoldwordfort00newa 22 pp., 1.34 Mb Author: Newark, N.J. Shade tree commission. [from old catalog] Studies of trees in winter : a description of the deciduous trees of northeastern America (1901) http://www.archive.org/details/studiestreesinw00huntgoog 381 pp., 4.39 Mb Author: Huntington, Annie Oakes, 1875-1940 Florida trees; a handbook of the native and naturalized trees of Florida (1913) http://www.archive.org/details/floridatreeshand00smal 140 pp., 7.80 Mb Author: Small, John Kunkel, 1869-1938 Illustrated key to the wild and commonly cultivated trees of the northeastern United States and adjacent Canada; based primarily upon leaf characters (1912) http://www.archive.org/details/illustratedkeyto00colliala 216 pp., 12 Mb Author: Collins, J. Franklin (James Franklin), b. 1863; Preston, Howard W. (Howard Willis), b. 1859 Our trees. A popular account of the trees in the streets and gardens of Salem, and of the native trees of Essex County, Massachusetts, with the location of trees, and historical and botanical notes (1891) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924001683410 136 pp., 2.66 Mb Author: Robinson, John, 1846-1925 The artistic anatomy of trees, their structure & treatment in painting (1920) http://www.archive.org/details/artisticanatomyo00cole 428 pp., 30 Mb Author: Cole, Rex Vicat, b. 1870 Canadian timber trees [microform] : their distribution and preservation (1879) http://www.archive.org/details/cihm_02766 30 pp., 1.32 Mb Author: Drummond, A. T. (Andrew Thomas), 1843-1923 The geographical distribution of the forest trees of Canada [microform] (1882) http://www.archive.org/details/cihm_03553 40 pp., 2.15 Mb Author: Bell, Robert, 1841-1917 A practical handbook of trees, shrubs, vines and herbaceous perennials (1912) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924002888844 414 pp., 9.81 Mb Author: Kirkegaard, John, 1872- Manual of the trees of North America (exclusive of Mexico) (1905) http://www.archive.org/details/manualoftreesofn00sarg 876 pp., 85 Mb Author: Sargent, Charles Sprague, 1841-1927; Faxon, Charles Edward, 1846-1918 Insects affecting park and woodland trees (1905) Volume 1 http://www.archive.org/details/insectsaffecting01felt 572 pp., 26 MB Author: Felt, Ephraim Porter, 1868-1943 Volume: v. 1 Insects affecting park and woodland trees (1905)Volume 2 http://www.archive.org/details/insectsaffecting02felt 608 pp., 30 Mb Author: Felt, Ephraim Porter, 1868-1943 Volume: v. 2 A practical handbook of trees, shrubs, vines and herbaceous perennials (1912) http://www.archive.org/details/practicalhandboo00kirkrich 418 pp., 11 Mb Author: Kirkegaard, John Some important insects of Illinois shade trees and shrubs (1911) http://www.archive.org/details/someimportantins00forb 96 pp., 7.4 MB Author: Forbes, Stephen Alfred, 1844-1930 The succession of forest trees, and wild apples; (1887) http://www.archive.org/details/successionfores00thorgoog 100 pp., 3.71 Mb Author: Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862; Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 Trees in winter; their study, planting, care and identification (1913) http://www.archive.org/details/treesinwinterthe00blak 466 pp., 40 Mb Author: Blakeslee, Albert Francis, 1874-1954; Jarvis, Chester Deacon, 1876-1948 The yew-trees of Great Britain and Ireland (1897) http://www.archive.org/details/yewtreesofgreatb00loweuoft 348 pp., 50 Mb Author: Lowe, John Canadian Forests, Forest Trees, Timber and Forest Products (1884) http://www.archive.org/details/canadianforests00smalgoog 73 pp., 4.28 Mb Author: Henry Beaumont Small The North American sylva, or, A description of the forest trees ..., Volume 3 By François André Michaux, Augustus Lucas Hillhouse http://books.google.com/books?id=HvwCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_similarbooks_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false Key to New England Trees: Wild and Commonly Cultivated (1909) http://www.archive.org/details/keytonewengland00presgoog 53 pp., 1.7 MB Author: James Franklin Collins, Howard Willis Preston Manual of the Trees of North America (exclusive of Mexico). (1905) http://www.archive.org/details/manualtreesnort00sarggoog 867 pp., 34 Mb Author: Charles Sprague Sargent The plants of the Bible, trees and shrubs (1866) http://www.archive.org/details/plantsbibletree01balfgoog 289 pp., 3.69 Mb Author: John Hutton Balfour Some Additional Notes Upon Trees and Tree Planting in Massachusetts (1886) http://www.archive.org/details/someadditionaln00sarggoog 31 pp., 1.12 Mb Author: C[harles] S[prague ] Sargent Trees, and how to paint them in water-colours (1883) http://www.archive.org/details/treesandhowtopa00bootgoog 57 pp., 1.43 Mb Author: William Henry J. Boot Trees in Winter: Their Study, Planting, Care and Identification (1913) http://www.archive.org/details/treesinwinterth00jarvgoog 473 pp., 23 Mb Author: Albert Francis Blakeslee, Chester Deacon Jarvis Sylvan Ontario : a guide to our native trees and shrubs (1901) http://www.archive.org/details/sylvanontariogui00mulduoft 86 pp., 11 mb Author: Muldrew, W. H. (William Hawthorne), 1867-1904 The big trees of California, their history and characteristics (1907) http://www.archive.org/details/bigtreesofcalifo00clar 118 pp., 2.73 Mb Author: Clark, Galen, 1814-1910 A practical handbook of trees, shrubs, vines and herbaceous perennials (1916) http://www.archive.org/details/practicalhandb00kirk 427 pp, 19 Mb Author: Kirkegaard, John The trees of Northeastern America, the shrubs of Northeastern America (1908) http://www.archive.org/details/treesofnortheast00newhuoft 532 pp, 122 Mb Author: Newhall, Charles S. (Charles Stedman), 1842-1935 Trees, shrubs and vines of the northeastern United States; (1903) http://www.archive.org/details/treesshrubsandv00parkgoog 205 pp., 6.16 Mb Author: Parkhurst, Howard Elmore, 1848-1916. [from old catalog] North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies (1908) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924074276845 924 pp., 35 Mb Author: Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Shafer, John Adolph A report on the trees and shrubs growing naturally in the forests of Massachusetts (1846) http://www.archive.org/details/areportontreesa01survgoog 619 pp., 17 Mb Author: Emerson, George B. (George Barrell), 1797-1881; Zoological and Botanical Survey (Mass.) Key to common deciduous trees in winter and key to common woods (1903) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924001673569 16 pp, 666 Kb Author: Sargent, Frederick Leroy, 1863-1928 Michigan trees; a handbook of the native and most important introduced species (1915) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924001681919 298 pp., 6.43 Mb Author: Otis, Charles Herbert, 1886 Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains (1918) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924024758801 504 pp., 42 Mb Author: Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924 Leaf key to the trees of the northern states and Canada, and a botanical glossary (1910) http://www.archive.org/details/leafkeytotreesof00hougrich 80 pp., 6.27 Mb Author: Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924 The chestnut bark disease; a grave danger which threatens our forest trees, with its remedy (1911) http://www.archive.org/details/chestnutbarkdise00mass 19 pp., 624 Kb Author: Massachusetts. State forester. [from old catalog] Minnesota trees and shrubs : an illustrated manual of the native and cultivated woody plants of the State (1912) http://www.archive.org/details/minnesotatreessh09clemuoft 34 pp., 20 Mb Author: Clements, Frederic E. (Frederic Edward), 1874-1945; Butters, F. K. (Frederic King), 1878- 1945; Rosendahl, C. O. (Carl Otto), 1875- Volume: 9 The North American sylva; or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia ... (1865) http://www.archive.org/details/northamericansyl02mich 396 pp., 14 Mb Author: Michaux, François André, 1770-1855; Smith, J. Jay (John Jay), 1798-1881; Hillhouse, Augustus L. (Augustus Lucas), 1791-1859 Volume: 2 The secret of the big trees. Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant National Parks. Department of the Interior, 1913 (1913) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924001688591 28 pp., 1.73 Mb Author: Huntington, Ellsworth, 1876-1947; United States. Dept. of the Interior The Yosemite guide-book: a description of the Yosemite Valley and the adjacent region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the big trees of California (1870) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924028882855 200 pp., 7.88 Mb Author: Geological Survey of California
You can also read John Evelyn's book Sylva, which was published in the late 1600s, at this website: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20778 Its not as much fun as the copy of the original book I checked out from the rare book collection in our library, but its still fun to read as an e-book. It is evident from reading this book that we have not learned much about forest management in the last several centuries. Evelyn's work actually is a continuation of earlier work done in Spain. Last year I was on the committee of a Ph.D. student in the history department who studied the development of forest management policies in Spain, and that work goes back as far as the 1300s, when some of the first policies for forest management were established. If I remember right, in the 1500s , everyone was required to plant 3 trees per year, protect them from grazing and drought, and help handicapped people in their local village to get their trees planted. - Lee frelich More Online Nature/Forest/Forestry Publication by Don Bragg
I may have mentioned these in the past, but we've got a lot of new members, and since the topic on free online materials has come up again, here's a reminder of some other links to forestry publications: Treesearch (http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/) --a searchable online archive of US Forest Service research publications. Virtually all new research pubs from all the Forest Service research stations, the Forest Products Lab, etc. can be found here, including those published in scientific, technical, and professional journals, as well as those issued by the Forest Service as well. To date, there are over 30,000 publications available, and I think most (all?) are in PDF format and ALL ARE FREE. Some of the PDFs were scanned in poorly, or had poor optical character recognition (OCR) done, so be aware that some aren't as clean as you'd like. Some of the older USFS pubs are also here, although many are not (at least not yet). Global Forest Information Service (http://www.gfis.net/gfis/home.faces) --sponsored by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations, this website provides links to publications (including those on Treesearch), many of which are international in origin, as well as some other links for forest-related datasets, jobs, and meetings. I linked to this source through the USDA's National Agriculture Library (http://www.nal.usda.gov/), which also serves as an information clearinghouse and has a number of forest and forestry-related publications available for download. Making of America (http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/) --this searchable online archive focuses on materials from the 19th Century on the development of the US and has over 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles. Obviously, not all of these are on forests or forestry related (forestry as a profession didn't evolve until the end of the 19th Century), but there are books on trees, plants, and nature, explorer accounts, government geological surveys, etc. You could literally spend DAYS digging in this archive. The journals are typical commercial ones from the 19th Century, but also include ones with a natural bent (the magazine "Garden and Forest" is an important early source of forest-related information from this time period, including big trees). History buffs will definitely love Making of America, even if the web format is a little more cumbersome... Another good resource for history buffs that want to see early historic accounts of North America is the American Journeys website (http://www.americanjourneys.org/index.asp), which is searchable and contains accounts from Eric the Red (1000 A.D.) to George Caitlin's Indian portfolio (1844). Includes chronicles of Lewis & Clark and many other less famous government explorers, as well as accounts of French, Spanish, and other European explorers.
Silvics of North America
Silvics of North America http://www.na.fs.fed.us/Spfo/pubs/silvics_manual/table_of_contents.htm United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Agriculture Handbook 654. Russell M. Burns and Barbara H. Honkala, Technical Coordinators
Woodland Owners Guide to Internet Resources: States of the Northeast
Woodland Owners Guide to Internet Resources: States of the Northeast http://na.fs.fed.us/temp_pdfs/1129758_95720387.pdf?CFID=1129758&CFTOKEN=95720387 the lin was located at: http://na.fs.fed.us/pubs/misc/flg/ It's 200 pages of links, presumably there others for other regions

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