Field Guides:
Field guides are essential to identifying plants, trees, insects, and animals.  Here are a few good field guides you can use:

• Eastern Trees (Peterson Field Guides), by George A. Petrides, Janet Wehr, and Roger Tory Peterson, revised in 1998
• Familiar Trees of North America: Eastern Region (The Audubon Society Pocket Guides), by Jane Friedman and Jerry F. Franklin, 1987
• Forest Trees of Florida, by the Florida Division of Forestry, 1997 (This small pocket guide is available free from your local Florida Division of Forestry office.)
• Forest Trees of the United States and Canada and How to Identify Them, by Elbert L. Little, 1980
• Golden Field Guide to Trees of North America, by C. Frank Brockman, 1968
• The National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region (Eastern), by Elbert L. Little, 1980
• Peterson First Guides: Trees, by George A. Petrides, Olivia Petrides, Janet Wehr, 1998
• Tree Finder: A Manual for the Identification of Trees by Their Leaves (Nature Study Guides Series), by May T. Watts, 1991

Books:
Here are a few books that include information and stories about trees.  Look for more interesting books in your library.

• Ancient Ones: The World of the Old-Growth Douglas Fir, by Barbara Bash, 1994
• Big Town Trees: Adventures of Ranger Rick, adapted by Doe Boyle, 1993
• The Cay, by Theodore Taylor, 1969
• Eli's Song, by Monte Killingsworth, 1991
• The Gift of the Tree, by Alvin Tresselt, 1972
• The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein, 1964
• The Grandpa Tree, by Mike Donahue, 1988
• Guess What Trees Do, by Barbara Rinkoff, 1974
• The Fire Bug Connection, by Jean Craighead George, 1993
• A Forest is Reborn, by James R. Newton, 1992
• Life on the Land, by Maria Ruis, 1986
• My Side of the Mountain, by Jean Craighead George, 1993
• On the Far Side of the Mountain, by Jean Craighead George, 1980
• Owl Moon, by Jane Yolen, 1987
• Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf, by Lois Ehlert, 1991
• Save My Rainforest, by Monica Zak, 1992
• The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree, by Gail Gibbons, 1991
• Sky Tree, by Thomas Locker, 1995
• A Tree in a Forest, by Jan Thornhill, 1991
• A Tree is Nice, by Janice May Udry, 1956
• Trees, by Harry Behn, 1977

Web Sites:
American Forest and Paper Association -- http://www.afandpa.org

Backyard Conservation - http://www.nhq.nrcs.usda.gov/CCS/Backyard.html

Extension Wildland Fire Materials - http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/Extension/ExtInfo.htm

Florida Division of Forestry -- http://www.fl-dof.com/

Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council -- http://www.fleppc.org/

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission -- http://www.state.fl.us/fwc/

Florida Forestry Association -- http://www.fl-dof.com/

Florida Forestry Information -- http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/Extension/ffws/ffwshome.htm

Florida Museum of Natural History -- http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/

Florida National Forests -- http://www.fs.fed.us/recreation/forest_descr/fl_r8_florida.html

Florida Resources and Environmental Education -- http://www.freenetwork.org/kids/index.cfm

Florida State Forests -- http://www.fl-dof.com/Fm/stforest/index.html

Florida State Parks -- http://www.dep.state.fl.us/parks/

Florida Trails -- http://www.state.fl.us/fwc/ -- use 'Florida Trails' button on the left

Forest Trees of Florida -- http://www.fl-dof.com/Pubs/trees/

Forestry in Florida's Counties -- http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/Extension/county/county.htm

List of Endangered Species in Florida -- http://endangered.fws.gov/statl-fl.html#LnkFL

National Firewise Project -- http://www.firewise.org/

Panthers in Florida -- http://www.panther.state.fl.us/

Society of American Foresters -- http://www.safnet.org/

Virginia Forestry Outreach Site -- http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/forsite/welcome.htm

Wildfire in Florida-- http://flame.doacs.state.fl.us/

Wildlife in Florida -- http://www.wec.ufl.edu/extension/