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If you need whole forests of barren trees, then you don't want to be twisting wire and carving bark. It is better to look for real plants that already have the character you need. You can find some materials at a craft store, but you might do just as well to hunt for weeds as someone else suggested. Here's another idea: use roots. If you can find the right kind of weed (one that is not considered by someone else to be a part of their landscaping!), you will see that once the roots are washed clean, there is a ready-made branch structure for you to use. You'll need to glue this onto a more stiff armature, perhaps using other twigs or commercial products, and you'll need to preserve it somehow. I intend to use this method once I get around to doing my winter scene, though I have not done so yet. I previously did a winter scene using a berry-bearing plant structure similar to a grapevine, but more woody and vertically-oriented; I do not recall the name of the plant I got it from, but it was in my grandmother's garden. The only trouble was that it had little bulbs of dried-out berries on the end of each branch, and the branch structure was not very fine. The thing is, though, it was very convincing once planted in large numbers, and sprinkled over with snowfall.
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