Welcome to the Encyclopedia of Southern Forest Science

This encyclopedia is in the initial stages of development. It will cover all the subjects of Forest Science with a focus on the southern region. Initially, this encyclopedia will be a content summary of two recent synthesis books: The Southern Forest Resource Assessment (Wear and Greis, 2002) and Southern Forest Science: past, present and future (Rauscher and Johnsen, 2004). The Forest Encyclopedia Network project is using this encyclopedia, because of its broad scope, to see whether its possible to organize the content in all the other encyclopedias into a grand synthesis of forest science knowledge.

Before learning about Southern Forest Science, new users of this site might want to learn more about what an online encyclopedia consists of by checking out the Where to Begin page.

Southern Forest Science can be categorized using the following five major subject matter headings:

• Landscape Condition and History
• Ecology and Environment
• Resource Management
• Products, Values, and Law
• Forest Health Protection

We are currently concentrating on finishing up the Resource Management section before beginning to work on the other sections.