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- Reducing your Taxes with Conservation Easements
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Interest in conservation easements has grown with the extreme increases in property values in many parts of the country. The resulting increased tax burden created some rather valuable estates that are "cash poor, but land rich." This shortage of cash sometimes means that even landowners who wish to preserve undeveloped land may have to sell or subdivide their land to pay the taxes. In addition to the payment of property taxes, estate taxes can be of particular concern.
- Identifying the Southern Pine Beetle
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Added: February 08, 2008Outbreaks of the southern pine beetle, Dendroctonus frontalis (Zimmermann), occur periodically in the southern United States, killing millions of dollars worth of pine timber and landscape pines. Good forest management, or cultural care in the case of landscape pines, can minimize the risk of southern pine beelte attacks.
- Herbicide Spray Drift
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Herbicide spray drift is the movement of herbicide from the target area to areas where herbicide application was not intended. While the number of acres damaged and the annual economic loss from spray drift is not large, individuals who are affected can suffer substantial losses.
- Forestry Terms for Mississippi Landowners
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This publication is meant to help you better understand special terms and abbreviations commonly used in forestry.
- Fire in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Defensible Space
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The purpose of this report is to provide information on the properties of some common California landscaping plants that can be used to determine how a particular plant will behave when burned. It is a referenced database that compiles the information found in available lists and supplements information on plant characteristics that are known to affect fire performance.
- Farmstead Windbreaks: Planning
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Windbreaks can slow, direct, and block winter winds, resulting in many benefits to the landowner. A windbreak is permanent, so think and plan carefully before planting trees or shrubs.
- Exotic Trees in the United States: Naturalized or Escaped form Cultivation
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Trees species brought into an area where they did not ecologically develop or where they are not considered "native," are exotic trees. Many exotic trees are grown for food, ornamental, aesthetic, or other specialized uses. Sometimes these exotic trees es...
- Ecoplex Form, Structure and Function: Ecological Renovation Targets
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One concept that must be developed and appreciated in ecological renovation of community sites is how we delineate space. Where are the edges of a management unit? We must clearly understand the impacts of defining and visualizing biotic islands, corridor...
- Tree Planting Guide
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How to Plant and Care for your Trees.
- TREE PLANTING: Success or Failure Depends on You
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Successful tree planting does not happen by chance -- it requires thought, planning and attention to detail. From the first seed planted at the nursery to the last seedling planted in the field, all persons involved must accept responsibility for tree planting success or failure.
- SC Forestry Commission Services
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If you are a forest landowner, chances are you need the technical assistance of a forestry professional.
- Forest Landowner's Guide to The Measurement of Timber and Logs
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Added: February 12, 2008Methods of measuring timber and the units of measurement often differ between buyers, and, as a seller, you should have an understanding of these methods, the units of measurement, and an idea as to a reasonable price for your timber.
- Pollination of Citrus by Honey Bees
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This paper will address the current thinking on pollination research in general and in specifics about citrus culture. In addition, it will examine some of the present and future possibilities about the value of the honey bee to this valuable crop.
- Best management practices for riparian areas
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This chapter will describe the management issues of concern, water bodies that are addressed by traditional BMPs, RMZ options, and approaches to the development of RMZ guidelines that move beyond BMPs and address issues other than the protection of water quality.
- Casuarina cunninghamianaMiq. (River sheoak) in Florida and its Potential as a Windbreak Plant for Citrus Groves
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Details the bacterial disease Casuarina cunninghamiana and its affect on citrus trees
- Trout Unlimited
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Trout Unlimted's mission is to conserve, protect and restore North America's trout and salmon fisheries and their watersheds.
- The Nature Conservancy Global Invasive Species Team
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Added: July 05, 2008This page includes links to all our resources specific to individual invasive species.
- Growing Oak Trees From Seed
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This fact sheet describes the basic steps involved in growing oaks from seed.
- Why Plant A Windbreak?
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This publication discusses how to effectively design a windbreak.
- Lure Butterfly Larvae to the Garden
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Butterflies don't live on flowers alone. If you're a butterfly gardener you have no doubt heard the advice to plant ``larval food plants'' so your butterflies can lay eggs on them.
- Landscape Plantings for Energy Savings
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The high cost of home heating and air conditioning prompts efforts to reduce home energy consumption. Although outdoor landscape plants are pleasing in themselves, they can also play a large part in controlling energy use indoors.
- Landowner Liability In Fee-Hunting Enterprises
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Landowners who allow hunters access to their property for pay may subject themselves to liability risks that deserve special attention.
- Increase Woodland Products Through Timber Stand Improvement
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Many options are open to woodland owners. They may use a TSI program to increase the woodland's value for timber products, water, recreation, forage, wildlife, natural beauty, or for special products. Fortunately, work done to improve one use also benefits others in most cases.
- Illinois Small Community Tree Programs: Attitude, Status and Needs
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In Illinois, 95% of the state's incorporated communities are classified as small (population less than 25,000), with approximately one-third of the state's citizens (3.6 million of 11.2 million) residing in these small communities. The objective of this survey was to obtain information on the status and needs of programs for managing public shade and street trees in the small communities of Illinois.
- Biological Diversity: Is Variety the Spice of Life?
- Forestry/Wildlife Myths and Misconceptions
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Many forestry/wildlife myths and misconceptions have been passed down through the years from misinformed individuals. Forestry myths and misconceptions can cause forest landowners to be hesitant about managing their forest land properly, and they are damaging to Mississippi's timber industry.
- New Forest Inventory Statistics for Southeast Georgia
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Trees are complex reacting organisms which grow in dynamic, rapidly changing environments. Tree biology must provide for defense, reproduction, growth, and control of resources. This publication provides some simple ways of thinking about trees.
- EstatePlanningLinks.com
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A site dedicated to estate planning.
- Small Diameter Timber Symposium Proceedings
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Proceedings of a 2002 conference on utilizing small diameter trees
- Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda) and Drought: A Selected Bibliography
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Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) is critical to timber markets and to landscapes. Seasonal water shortages impact loblolly in a variety of ways. As part of tree health care and drought management, the following publications are listed to facilitate informat...
