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- Maintaining Permanent CRP Wildlife Plantings
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One of the CRP options available to landowners was planting trees and shrubs for wildlife. Now time has passed and these plantings are beginning to bear fruit. They need care and maintenance to make them last a lifetime.
- What Happened to the Southern Pine Beetle?
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For the first time in 17 years, no infestations of the southern pine beetle were reported on state and private lands in East Texas in 1998.
- Allelopathy in Trees
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Trees have developed in ecological systems filled with many other organisms. The environment, shared by all, contains limited resources and less-than-ideal growth conditions. Allelopathy is one strategy of life.
- Woodlands Protection
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This publication discusses the importance of recognizing dangers to woodland health and suggests ways of protecting it.
- Retail Merchandising of North Carolina Fraser Fir
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The purpose of the following information is to provide retailers with the latest update of experience and research so they can provide customers with fresh trees that will remain serviceable throughout the holiday season.
- Center for Forest Business, University of Georgia
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The Center for Forest Business, established in 1997, is dedicated to: ````sound forest business principles and practices ``sustainable forest production ``market-based solutions to forest resource problems and opportunities
- Tips for Planning a Successful Timber Sale
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This PDF is a great guide to timber sales contracts.
- Sustainability Foresty: A Guide for Virginia Forest Landowners
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This publication provides some basic information about forest management and specifics on how timber harvesting should be conducted to ensure the sustainability of your forest resources.
- Living With Fire
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Added: August 15, 2008A guide for the homeowner.
- Florida Forestry Information
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Forestry information for Florida's landowners and the general public.
- Determining Fish Pond Balance BROKEN
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This publication will provide information to help pondowners assess their bass/bream populations and to make informed decisions regarding pond management.
- Current Status and Trends in Timber Severence Tax Legislation in the South
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Severance tax programs currently exist in eight States in the South. These laws have been enacted primarily to encourage better forest management and to provide rev- enues for a variety of forestry initiatives. In most States, either the severer or the primary processor of forest prod- ucts is designated as the taxpayer. Severance tax rates are established as either: (1) a fixed amount per unit of measurement or (2) a percentage of the value of timber harvested.
- Planting Trees In Your Landscape
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Good landscape plants can increase property value, save energy, and provide privacy and beauty around your home. This publications provides helpful information on planting, watering, and fertilizing your new trees.
- Developing a Plan to Care For Your Forest
- Tree Selection for Drought Resistance
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Added: October 20, 2008A fact of life in the Southeast is the mid-summer drought. In recent years drought periods have ventured into spring and fall. Drought has damaged many trees and landscapes. One means of drought-proofing your landscape is selection of drought resistant plants. No landscape can be made completely free of drought problems even under intensive irrigation. With more water shortages and drought periods ahead, planting trees and other plants that are drought resistant can be beneficial.
- Thinning CRP Pines
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As the trees in these stands begin to reach pulpwood size, landowners should think about using one of the basic pine management tools, thinning.
- 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.
- 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.
- South Carolina Forestry Commission Cost Share Programs of South Carolina
- Insect and Plant Disease Control Manual
- Gray and Fox Squirrels BROKEN
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This publication identifies suitable habitats for the gray and fox squirrel, and it discusses management techniques.
- Landowner's Guide to Timber Sale Contracts
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A written timber sale agreement or contract is generally the preferable and safest method of selling timber. A written contract is legally binding and protects both the buyer and seller.
- Application of Poultry Litter to Pine Forests
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This publication reports on some preliminary research``into the application of poultry litter to a pine plantation and``attempts to answer the following questions:`` What is the potential for poultry litter applications on``forest land to harm surface or groundwater?`` What is the effect of poultry litter applications on pine tree``growth?`` What are other practical concerns which may limit the use``of poultry litter as a fertilizer on forest lands?
- Air Drying of Lumber
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This report describes how lumber can be air-dried most effectively under outdoor conditions and illustrates the principles and procedures of air-drying lumber that were developed through field investigations and observations of industrial practices.
- Pine Land Rescue! Renovating Poor Quality Pine Stands
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Well managed stands of pine produce many values for a forest landowner. Poor pine stands produce few values and may be a liability to the landowner.
- Ohio Society of American Foresters
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(Regional) Ohio Chapter of Society of American Foresters (Professional Society)A Local Forestry Organization
- Selling Timber: Capital Gains Versus Ordinary Income
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This publication discusses the difficulty in determing whether proceeds from a transaction are considered capital gain or ordinary income, along with other related topics.
- Oak Wilt
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Oak wilt, caused by the fungus Ceratocystis fagacearum, kills oak trees. It has been found in 21 States, with considerable damage occurring in the Midwest. It was first recognized as an important disease in 1944 in Wisconsin (fig. 1) where, in localized areas (less than 100 acres (40.4 ha)), over half the oaks have been killed. Surveys in eight Wisconsin counties showed that about 11 percent of the annual growth increase of oak forests was offset by mortality caused by oak wilt.
- Native tress and shrubs
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0ver 100 native trees and shrubs of the south east; growing instructions and images.
