The new online Utah Tree Browser is now available at www.treebrowser.org. The USU Tree Browser is an interactive database containing information on 241 native and introduced trees growing in Utah and the Intermountain West. The browser contains 1073 full color photographs (numbers as of January 2009). Users can browse through a complete list of trees or narrow their choices by selecting from 21 general, growth-related, cultural, and ornamental characteristics, including whether a tree is native or introduced. For each species there is a fact sheet, usually including descriptions of the leaves, twigs/buds, flowers/fruit, bark, wood, general comments about the tree's native habitat, and a description of its uses in cultivated landscapes, including its USDA Plant Hardiness Zone designation.
The new Tree Browser is available on the Web for free and is always up-to-date. It works on any computer that has an Internet connection and has Flash installed (nearly all computers do), and it works on Macs as well as PCs and with any Web browser. It is brought to you by USU Extension Forestry and was created by Extension Specialist Mike Kuhns and Box Elder County Extension Agent Lyle Holmgren, with programming by Scott McCallister and Robert Holloway and graphic design by Annie Jensen of USU. Partial funding was provided by U.S. Forest Service State & Private Forestry.
The new Tree Browser works best with non-dialup (moderately fast) Web connections and with monitors sized at least 1100 pixels wide by 768 pixels high. A desktop version (on DVD) will be available soon for those with slower or no Internet connections. Check at http://extension.usu.edu/
Contact Mike Kuhns at mike.kuhns@usu.edu for more information.
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