Tree Care Industry Association (TCIA). This is our National Arborist Asociation, and treeguys who become a member have access to their incredible resource library: Books, literature, videos, workshops, and the Tree Care Industry Association monthly magazine.

Twice a year, the National Arborist Association holds a big, three-day treeguy convention, called TCIA EXPO. This is an excellent event, something I personally look forward to every year. It is held in a convention center in a different city every year and brings in not only tree guys, but all the vendors who supply gear to the Tree Care Industry. This is a chance to buy gear, try on stuff, meet the manufacturers face-to-face, meet and network with other treeguys. Awesome event. Information on it, at the website listed right here.

Of course, as you've noticed Arboristsite.com

The International Society of Arboriculture has a website called Trees are Good. This site is awesome for the general public, for whom it was designed.

Here is an arboristsite link where we talk about the recent Certified Tree Worker, Climbing Specialist accreditation. Here's the link

Here is an ISA (International Society of Arboriculture) link to the different accreditations, 5 in all, what the accreditations mean and information on when and where the exams take place.

Here you can type in your address to get a list of local and regional Certified Arborists, any one of whom you can call and hire.

Some other of my favorite tree links:

Treelink.org a site that, like this one, links extensively outward into the world of Arboriculture.

ANSI, the American National Standards Institute who create and publish safety guidelines for out Tree Care Industry, here is a link directly to their site, ANSI

Tree Climbers International, I like their organization a great deal. They tailor solely to recreational climbers; people who climb trees purely for pleasure.

And here's a link to the National Arbor Day Foundation

Sierra Club, to whom I donate some money every year. I align with their cause to save our natural places.

Jerry Beranek, a living legend, offers decades of his experiences in images and video, through his CD A tree Story. This will take you directly to his site for more information.

Here's a link for the scientist in all of us. Just typein the word TREES in the search line and I promise you'll find many interesting tree-related topics.

And I'm going to list this again, on purpose for PURE RECREATIONAL TREE CLIMBING, you would click here to go to Tree Climbing International. They have information on climbing trees all over the world. Also, they have a forum that allows you to get right in the discussion about whatever topic you're interested in. VERY worth checking out.

Here is a link to The World's classiest Arborist website, the, most well-done treeguy website that I have seen yet. This an arborist who is an 'Arborist's Arborist' . I mean, Look at this guy's credentials! I try to imagine how much time and dedication this cat has sunk into his learning. WOW!

So he gets the award, but not because of his extensive abilities in the field of Arboriculture. This treeguy has the best-looking, most well-laid out, easy to navigate site. I hope to meet this cat some day. Enjoy his excellent website.

Here is a link to the US Forest service, a place within their site called 'Treesearch' The home page is a search engine with a subject line, and author line and a keyword line. Go try it. Type in 'Shigo' or 'armillaria' or 'oak wilt'. The papers offered here are formal academic research.


http://www.itis.usda.gov/index.html is a link to a very detailed taxonomic reference put out by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Excellent resource.