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Every rural farm should have a place for a woodlot, including
set-and-forget tree planting program that works while you are asleep,
and is a long-term profitable investment for the benefit of your
children---unexcelled for a savings account that can be drawn against
twenty five years after planting, and if the planting includes nut
trees, yielding a good interim income after six to ten years.

http://www.metla.fi/info/vlib/forestgen/

http://www.forestry.iastate.edu/  (Ioway State Forestry information)

http://txforestservice.tamu.edu/  (if you live further south, TAMU is
a very good forestry source too)

http://soils.fw.vt.edu/  (forest soils from Virginia Tech---don't
fight Mother Nature, raise acid-loving trees on battery-acid Appalachian 
soils)

http://wpsm.net/  (woody plant seed manual)

http://www.championtrees.org/  (the biggest and best---get your seeds
and seedlings from a nursery that propagates from champion trees)

http://home.12move.nl/~jrottier/  (selective felling, natural uneven
maturity dates, as opposed to clear-cuts)

http://www.arborday.org/  (urban forestry too, trees that add income
and add livability at the same time)

http://www.acf.org/  (mandatory source of information restoring the
Appalachian climax forest from blight-free chestnut seedstock, not
Chinese hybrids, but 15/16ths original American chestnut trees,
indistinguishable from those that populated 70 percent of Appalachian
virgin forest, except these contain the two genes that confer
blight-resistance.)  Seedlings should be available from ACF nursery
in 2005.  If profit is your motive, get a good interim income from
high food-value chestnuts---at full production it is the equivalent
of 400 bushel-an-acre corn with none of the annual work involved in
row-crops.
You're lazy, let hogs do the harvesting (after the trees are bit
enough so rooting by hogs is unlikely).



http://arboretum.harvard.edu/  (maintain a list of arboretums as tree
sources---Arnold is a good one, there is a Florida one for tropical fruits)

http://backyardgardener.com/tree/index.html  (plant them right, prune
them right if you expect good results from your trees)