FRST 370 : Community Forests and Community Forestry

Google can be useful for searching the websites of government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community groups and companies to find press releases, reports, etc.

Here are a few commands to focus your search. You can also use the Google Advanced search if you can't remember the commands.

• Phrase search using quotation marks: “community forestry”
• Keyword search in the webpage title only: allintitle:“community forestry”
• File Format search (e.g. pdf documents only): filetype:pdf
• Restrict search to a specific website or domain (e.g. FAO): site:fao.org
• Other useful domains are country codes (ca), org, edu, com

Credit: Sally Taylor