Links

Industry Organizations

Long Island

• Nassau Suffolk Landscape Gardeners Association - http://www.nslga.org/
• Long Island Nursery & Landscape Association - http://www.linla.org/
• Long Island Arboricultural Association - http://www.longislandarborists.org/
• Professional Certified Applicators of Long Island - http://www.pcaofli.com/
• Long Island Farm Bureau - http://www.lifb.com/

New York State

• New York State Nursery & Landscape Association - http://www.nysnla.com
• New York State Arborists, ISA Chapter - http://www.nysarborists.com/index.htm
• New York Chapter, American Society of Landscape Architects - http://www.nyasla.org/index.php
• New York State Council of Landscape Architects - http://www.nyscla.org/
• New York Farm Bureau - http://www.nyfb.org/

Regional

• International Society of Arboriculture - http://www.isa-arbor.com/
• American Nursery & Landscape Association - http://www.anla.org
• Tree Care Industry Association - http://www.treecareindustry.org/index.aspx
• American Society of Landscape Architects - http://www.asla.org/
• American Farm Bureau - http://www.fb.org/

Soil Health and Diagnostics

• Cornell Soil Health - http://soilhealth.cals.cornell.edu/
• NRCS Soils Website - http://soils.usda.gov/
• Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic of Cornell’s Department of Plant Pathology - http://plantclinic.cornell.edu/Default.htm
• Soil Health Assessment and Management: The Concepts - http://www.css.cornell.edu/extension/WCU/Vol16No22006Mar-Apr.pdf
• Nitrogen and the Environment - http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/3240
• Soil pH Data Form For Commercial Growers
• Soil pH Data Form For Commercial Horticulture Services

Cultural Practices

• Dealing with Deer - http://www.gardening.cornell.edu/factsheets/deerdef/index.html
• Fall Transplant Hazard List - http://wefindplants.com/pages/FallHazard.html
• Cornell Guide for Planting and Maintaining Trees and Shrubs
  
• Pruning: An Illustrated Guide
  
• Livable Landscape Design
  

Business Management

• Cornell Horticultural Business Management and Marketing Program - http://hortmgt.aem.cornell.edu/
• NY FarmNet - http://www.nyfarmnet.org/
• Cornell Small Farms Home - http://www.smallfarms.cornell.edu/
• University of Tennesee Horticultural Business Information Network - http://hbin.tamu.edu/

Plant Material

• All-Star Groundcovers - http://www.entomology.cornell.edu/Extension/Woodys/CUGroundCoverSite/GroundcoverMain.html
• ANLA Standard for Nursery Stock
• Herbaceous Perennials from the Test Plots at Bluegrass Lane - http://aggiehorticulture.tamu.edu/ornamentals/Cornell_Herbaceous/
• National Wildlife Federation’s Top Ten Native Plants of the Northeast - http://www.nwf.org/backyard/northeast.cfm
• NRCS Plants Database - http://plants.usda.gov/
• Recommended Urban Trees - http://www.hort.cornell.edu/uhi/outreach/recurbtree/index.html
• Cornell’s Invasive Plants Program - http://www.invasiveplants.net/
• Invasive Plants of the Eastern U.S. - http://www.invasive.org/eastern/
• UConn Plant Database - http://www.hort.uconn.edu/plants/index.html
• Power Trees - http://www.powertrees.com/
• Deciduous Woody Groundcovers - http://www.hort.cornell.edu/uhi/outreach/pdfs/dwgc.pdf
• Visual Similarity and Biological Diversity: Street Tree Selection and Design - http://www.hort.cornell.edu/uhi/outreach/pdfs/visually_compatible_trees.pdf

Disease Management

• Christmas Tree Disease Factsheets - http://www.plantpath.cornell.edu/trees/TreePests.html
• NCSU Plant Disease Information Notes - http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/pp/notes/Ornamental/ornamental_contents.html
• MSUcares Ornamental and Tree Diseases - http://msucares.com/lawn/tree_diseases/index.html

Insect Management

• University of KY complete list of entomology factsheets - http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/entfacts/efhtmlst.htm
• NAPPO Phytosanitary Alert System (Pest Alerts) - http://www.pestalert.org/index.cfm?NAPPOLanguagePref='English'
• Pheromone Traps for Insect Pest Management

Weed Management

• Cornell Weed Ecology Lab - http://www.css.cornell.edu/WeedEco/

Agencies

• NYS Ag and Markets Division of Plant Industry - http://www.agmkt.state.ny.us/PI/PIHome.html
• DEC Reduced Risk Pesticides and Biopesticides - http://www.dec.ny.gov/chemical/8862.html
• NY NRCS - http://www.ny.nrcs.usda.gov/
• DEC Pesticide Program - http://www.dec.ny.gov/chemical/298.html
• DEC Currently Registered Pesticides - http://www.dec.ny.gov/chemical/27354.html
  
  
  

CCE Publications & Resources

• L.I. Horticultural Research and Extension Center - http://www.longislandhort.cornell.edu/
• Cornell Guidelines for Pest Management - http://ipmguidelines.org/
  
• Pest Management Education Program (PMEP) - http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/
  
• Recertification Courses and Sample Lawn Care Contract - http://psep.cce.cornell.edu/certification/Certification.aspx
  
• Urban Horticulture Institute - http://hort.cals.cornell.edu/
  
• CCE Suffolk County Horticulture Leaflets Online
  
• Updated Growing Degree Days and Evapotranspiration Rates
• CCE Nassau County Horticulture Webpage - http://www.ccenassau.org/
  
• Branching Out - http://branchingout.cornell.edu/BranchingOutHome.html
  
• Emergency Preparedness Resources for NYS - http://emergencypreparedness.cce.cornell.edu/
  
• Connecticut Ag Experiment Station Plant Pest Handbook - http://www.ct.gov/caes/cwp/view.asp?a=2823&q=378182
  
• NCSU Nursery Crop Science - http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/nursery/
  

IPM & Organics

• IR-4 Biopesticides and Organics Database - http://ir4.rutgers.edu/biopesticides.html
• DEC Reduced Risk Pesticides and Biopesticides - http://www.dec.ny.gov/chemical/8862.html
• EPA 25b List of Minimum Risk Active Ingredients - http://www.epa.gov/oppbppd1/biopesticides/regtools/25b_list.htm
• NYS IPM for Nursery and Greenhouse - http://nysipm.cornell.edu/nursery_ghouse/default.asp
• Northeast IPM Center - http://northeastipm.org/
• An IPM Primer - http://neipmc.org/whatisprimer.cfm
• What is IPM? - http://paipm.cas.psu.edu/default.htm
• PA IMP Pest Problem Solver - http://paipm.cas.psu.edu/329.htm
• Radcliffe’s IPM World Textbook - http://ipmworld.umn.edu/
• Great Lakes IPM—Supplies and Equipment - http://www.greatlakesipm.com/
• Sustainable Small-Scale Nursery Production - http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/nursery.html
• Scouting the Container Nursery - http://woodypest.ifas.ufl.edu/scouting.htm
• EspañolPenn State Extension Emerald Ash Borer Fact Sheet - http://www.entm.purdue.edu/EAB/espanol/index.shtml
• Lawn Care Without Pesticides