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- Can we stop "killer algae" from invading Florida?
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Introduced species that cause harm to ecosystems, economies, or human health represent a serious threat in Florida and around the world. One example of such a species, an invasive species, is “killer algae” or the Mediterranean strain of Caulerpa taxifolia. This fact sheet explains the origin of “killer algae,” the changes it has wrought, what it looks like, how it invades so successfully, and what each of us can do about preventing an invasion in Florida.
- Christmas Tree Shearing
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This fact sheet is prepared to assist growers in mastering the art of shearing to produce quality salable trees.
- Tree Improvement in Oklahoma Woodlands
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This fact sheet summarizes the methods landowners can use to improve the quality of forest trees.
- Sawflies
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Sawflies are a large and diverse group of insects that defoliate hardwood and coniferous trees in the United States.
- Estimating Returns from Forest Investments
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Added: October 20, 2008The tools reviewed in this publication can help landowners judge the consequences of investments and provide comparison with other alternatives.
- Channel Catfish Production in Ponds
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This publication briefly outlines the basic requirements for successful catfish farming in Georgia.
- Selected Literature: Root Control Methods
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Added: October 31, 2008There has never been a time with more innovative tools and techniques available for minimizing infrastructure damage exacerbated by tree root growth. This limited bibliography helps identify the pertinent literature which contain means of controlling tree root growth. It remains the responsibility of the tree owner and the resource consultant to create and use root growth control tools and techniques that are tree-literate and do not destroy the many goods and services which trees bring to people's lives over long periods of time.
- Ecologically Based Municipal Land Use Planning
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The solution to the urban sprawl is not to be found in more legislation, rules, and regulation, says Honachefsky, but in local communities and how they develop their municipal master plans. His strategies include restoring the municipal master plan as the dominant planning document, incorporating recent scientific research studies, applying geographic information systems, and designating the protection of the community's ecological infrastructure as the premier priority
- Christmas Tree Pest Manual
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This manual can help you identify and control damaging Christmas tree pests in the North Central region of the United States. Most of the information also applies to the northeastern states and to the southern portions of the Canadian Provinces that border these states.
- BMP: Ribbon Barriers
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A description, use, and cost of Ribbon Barriers
- Harbison Environmental Education Forest
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Harbison Environmental Education Forest's emphasis is on natural resource education, providing demonstrations of forestry practices as well as recreation. Visitors are encouraged to come, enjoy, and even volunteer to help with the development of this valuable urban forest.
- Glossary of Legal and Property Terms
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This glossary contains many useful terms related to legality and property.
- Forestry Aesthetics Guide
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Added: October 05, 2008This publication is written as a guide for foresters, loggers, landowners, and other resource managers. The practices recommended are designed to be used as voluntary guidelines to improve and enhance the aesthetics of forest operations in the South.
- Forest Stewardship: Watershed Management
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This publication describes practices that a forest landowner can use to maintain or improve water resources in ways that are compatible with other management objectives.
- Fertilization of Christmas Trees in Oklahoma
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Christmas trees, like any plant material, need nutrients to increase growth and maintain vigor.
- Responses of Wildlife to Clearcutting and Associated Treatments in the Eastern United States
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Added: February 09, 2008The clearcutting controversy is not confined to its relationship to economics or human perceptions of beauty; the controversy extends to environmental concerns as well. In this report, we examine published scientific literature regarding the effects of clearcutting on wildlife populations and their habitat in the eastern United States.
- Durability of Wood
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Added: October 25, 2008Some types of trees produce wood that is naturally resistant to decay. Wood may also be treated with preservatives for durability. This publication lists types of resistant wood and compares treatments. It also explains the reasons wood decays.
- Controlling Pocket Gophers BROKEN
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Gopher populations can be reduced or eliminated over a considerable area with persistent control efforts. Control is best conducted when gophers are most active near the surface, usually in the spring and fall.
- A Hunting Lease for Your CRP Pines
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A stand of young planted pines in the midst of cropland can add to the value of a hunting lease by providing escape cover for deer, rabbits, and certain other game.
- Temporary Wetland Crossing Options
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Operators crossing wetlands with vehicles and other logging equipment may harm water quality, alter the water flow, and damage habitat. To protect wetlands, the best strategy is to go around them. If this isnt possible, use temporary crossing options to minimize impacts.
- Spanish Association of Arboriculture
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Association of people who love the trees
- Society of American Foresters Certification
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Added: February 25, 2008Certified Forester Program.
- Salvage Removal: A Method for Controlling Southern Pine Beetle Infestations
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The Southern Pine Beetle (SPB) is the most destructive pine bark beetle in the South. SPB infestations commonly originate in poorly managed or overstocked stands. Once underway, outbreaks can spread rapidly, killing trees over hundreds of acres, and move into managed stands.
- Hurricane Shade Tree Destruction May Be Tax Deductible
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Taxpayers may be able to deduct losses in property value from Hurricane Katrina. This includes damage to shade``trees along with damage to your home and automobiles that will not be reimbursed through insurance payments``(Internal Revenue Code 165).
- Habitat Appraisal Guide for Bobwhite Quail
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This appraisal guide provides a means to systematically evaluate the suitability of prairie, shrubland, or forest for bobwhite quail.
- Aquatic Weed Identification and Control: White Waterlily and American Lotus BROKEN
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Added: October 05, 2008Although the white waterlily and American lotus are attractive, they can both become serious pests. This publication provides information on controlling their growth.
- Endangered Plant Species of the Georgia Piedmont
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This fact sheet is to help build awareness of our natural heritage and legal responsibilities.
- Understanding Forest Certification
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Added: January 05, 2008 - Tree Planting Objectives and the Seedling Selection Process
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This publication discusses ways to increase seedling survival and achieve an established, well stocked forest stand.
- Small Whorled Pogonia (Isotria medeoloides)
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Perennial, showy orchid 15-25 centimeters (6-10in) tall. Growing from the top of the stem is a single whorl of five to six pale, dusty green, drooping, wide leaves about 5-8 centimeters (2-3.2in) long and 3-5 centimeters (1.2-2in) wide. The leaf stalk and...
