Landscape Forestry
by Stephen Boyce
Paperback (1995)

Legal Aspects of Owning and Managing Woodlands
by Thomas McEvoy, Carl Reidel
Hardcover (1998)

Working With Your Woodland: A Landowner's Guide
by Mollie Beattie, Charles Thompson
Paperback (1993)

The Good Woodcutter's Guide: Chain Saws, Woodlots, and Portable Sawmills
by Dave Johnson
Paperback (1998)

Landscape Forestry
by Stephen Boyce
Paperback (1995)

Legal Aspects of Owning and Managing Woodlands is both an accessible overview of the privileges, rights, and obligations that accompany forest ownership, and a guidebook to help active forest managers use laws to their advantage and avoid the pitfalls of expensive and exhausting litigation. Chapters examine all aspects of woodland ownership and management, from general issues to specific concerns. This book is not intended to take the place of legal advice, but it will help forest owners understand an essential body of law, enabling them to ask the right questions of their attorneys, consulting foresters, and all those they encounter in the complex task of owning and managing land.

Good book to learn about forestry.   Intelligently written for amateurs, much more readable than academic literature.   It is written for New England woodlands, but its principles are applicable everywhere.

A reader from Upstate New York, 1998
Highly recommended for anyone who owns or uses a chain saw.
This well-written, humorous and truly unique book addresses the issues of productive, safe woods work and chain saw use from an accessible and delightful perspective. In that respect, it is unlike any other book on the subject that I have seen. Admittedly, there aren't many others to choose from. The author, Dave Johnson, describes how he and his wife make their living from their own 500-acre woodlot by doing most of the work themselves. In the process, he explains clearly--and when necessary, in great detail--issues as diverse as properly sharpening a saw chain, starting a saw, felling a tree or choosing the best work clothes. The entire text is laced with a mixture of humorous and profound observations about what the author sees as the true nature of work, workers, trees, machines and a whole lot more. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who owns or uses a chain saw.