Screenshot of USFS Treesearch homepage, 2011
Treesearch is the site [1. U.S. Forest Service website] that provides easy access to a database of tens of thousands of Forest Service research papers, documents and projects from across a span of many decades.
The Forest Service itself is divided administratively into six Regions and corresponding Research Stations, each of which has historically addressed topics & issues that pertain to the different regions of the United States. One of the ways in which the Treesearch database is organized, in turn, is on the basis of these regions. So an interest in the forests and ecology of any given region of our continent can be persued, without having to paw through nonapplicable database results for the other regions. … cont’d >