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How to weigh a tree

This page has additional background material and links to resources that may help you prepare for and extend the lesson.

These 2 EPA sites will lead you into hours of EPA material and calculators.

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/findacar.htm 

http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/tools/wc_assum.html

The Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change 

http://www.co2science.org/carbon/carbon.htm

These are tree identification keys available on line.

ID It Virginia Tech tree Identification Key using leaves and twigs

Identification of Common Trees of Iowa Iowa State University Extension Forestry, discussion of tree types and tree identification. 

Trees for the Pacific Northwest College of Forestry, Oregon State University

Upper Peninsula TREE IDENTIFICATION KEY from Michigan State University Extension

Basics of Tree ID Key to Leaves of Virginia Trees (for use with the 4-H tree identification project) by Dr. Jeff Kirwan and James Ward


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