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- Home Landscape Practices for Water Quality Protection
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Minimizing polluted runoff from your landscape as well as reusing rain water will not "just happen." It requires planning and some knowledge of plants and landscape design.
- Handling Stewardship Incentive Program Cost-share Payments for Income Tax
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This paper addresses a selection of questions that landowners frequently asked about the income tax aspects of SIP cost-share payments.
- Factors Affecting Pesticide Behavior and Breakdown
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This publication describes the combination of ingredients in pesticides and how that factors into its applications and effectiveness.
- 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
- Crow Fact Sheet
- Control Methods For Aquatic Plants in Ponds and Lakes
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Aquatic plants growing in ponds and lakes are beneficial for fish and wildlife. However, dense growths (over 25% of the surface area) of algae and other water plants can seriously interfere with pond recreation and threaten aquatic life.
- An Ecosystems Approach to Natural Resources Management
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Our nationand especially Kentuckyhas an abundance of renewable natural resources, including timber, wildlife, and water. As the nation grows and prospers, we extract natural resources through agriculture, forestry, mining, urban or industrial expansion, and other developments. Ultimately, we affect the amount of wild lands that native plants and animals need for survival.
- 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.
- The Southern Pine Beetle
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This publication helps landowners by explaining the symptoms of a Southern Pine Beetle attack, what to do about it, and how to prevent it.
- Protecting Honey Bees From Pesticides
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- Southern Pine Beetle
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Added: April 06, 2000Using this directory will enable you to become``better informed, better educated, and better equipped through the latest information on SPB biology, management and research.
- Land Planner's Environmental Handbook
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Technical reference manual brings together technical information from published texts, reports, and manuals as well as hindsight dramatization of many of the negative impacts of the nation's past and present land use planning efforts. Most of the nation's pressing environmental issues are covered, including landfilling, incineration, composting, leaking underground tanks, AIDS, radon, Lyme disease, medical waste, ocean pollution, and wildlife protection.
- Insect and Plant Disease Control Manual
- EstatePlanningLinks.com
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A site dedicated to estate planning.
- Conifer Sawflies
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This publication describes eleven conifer sawflies by their distinctive markings, their hosts, the time of year they are present, and their distribution. Magnefied and to-scale drawings of each are also provided.
- American Ginseng Production in Woodlots
- A Technical Guide to Urban and Community Forestry
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The Technical Guide to Urban Forestry was produced to help communities develop, manage and protect their urban forest resources. The purpose of this publication is to provide technical information about growing trees in the relatively adverse urban environment.
- A Guide for 4-H Wood Science Projects
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The purpose of Wood Science Projects is to introduce young people to the characteristics of wood that give it potential as a raw material for products as varied as furniture for homes, lumber for construction, barrels for liquids and airplane parts.
- Evaluation and Management of Storm-Damaged Timber
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Homeowners often ask what can be done to save damaged shade and ornamental trees and forest landowners are interested in how to assess the damage to their timber. In addition to the direct damage caused by the wind, insects and fungi often cause additional losses.
- Attracting and Feeding Songbirds
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Added: September 10, 2008A primer in backyard songbird conservation.
- Chemigation Equipment and Techniques for Citrus
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Details using an irrigation system to deliver chemicals to citrus plants, its safety, management, and tips.
- 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.
- Timber Theft! (How to avoid it and what to do if it happens)
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Timber theft, or timber trespass, is common throughout the Southeast. Each year numerous private forest landowners discover their timber has been stolen or inadvertently harvested.
- Understanding the Science Behind Riparian Forest Buffers: Effects on Plant and Animal Communities
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Loss of native riparian vegetation can result in a loss of habitat for many animals. Therefore, the restoration of riparian forest buffers along Virginia's streams and lakes is important to maintaining and restoring Virginia's fish and wildlife populations.
- 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.
- Evaluating WINYIELD v. 1.11 and GaPPS v. 4.20
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Two Windows-based personal computer software systems are examined and compared when used to model and evaluate forest management options on stand volume growth, product class and yield, and financial transactions and profitability.
- Diversified Urban Plantings
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This publication discusses ways of diversifying urban landscape through the selection of various tree species.
- Cage Culture: Cage Culture Problems BROKEN
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Cage culture is one of the most intense forms of aquaculture. Due to its intense nature, cage culture can have problems.
- 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.
- Sample Timber Sale Contract
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A written timber sale contract is essential to all timber sales. Both buyer and seller need the protection that only a well-written contract can provide. Oral agreements are subject to misunderstanding and misinterpretation and are simply not adequate.
