Rivanna Master Naturalists

Rivanna Chapter

Serving the
Central Piedmont of Virginia

Forestry Images
A fabulous site for the visual learner, created as a joint project of The Bugwood Network and USDA Forest Service, and the University of Georgia - Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources - College of Agricultural and and Environmental Science - Dept. of Entomology. Contains sections on trees and plants, silviculture, invasive species, forest pests, wildlife, and more, with thousands of photos in each image category.
Each section mentioned has a home page with a drop-down menu. The section on forest pests, for example, has sub-sections on insects, diseases, and other damage agents. The sub-sections are themselves subdivided, so that under “Insects” you find bark beetles, foliage feeding, wood boring, and invasive. Clicking on any item in the menu leads you to a treasure-trove of photographs on every element of the item, most taken by Forest Service personnel. An enormous resource, with over 75,000 photos in the collection.

Penn State Mont Alto Dendrology Web Page
The site is pictorial, presenting a variety of photos for each species studied in a PSU dendrology course, and is intended to help those students with tree identification. Good photos of the usual items--leaves, bark, flowers, etc. Proceed either by clicking on the number of the week (although the general viewer has no idea what was covered that week), or by clicking on “View Master Species List” and then clicking on the name of the tree you want to see.

Noble Foundation Plant Image Gallery
As the name implies, this site is an extensive set of photos. One section of the site is devoted to trees, shrubs, and woody vines. (Another section is devoted to forbs, and a third to grasses and grasslike plants.) Photos can be accessed via a common name index, a scientific name index, or by family.