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- Pond Construction: Some Practical Considerations
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This article is designed to provide basic information needed to design and construct a multiple-use farm pond in Virginia.
- Organizing A Hunting Club
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The popularity of hunting clubs in Alabama grows each year. Hunting clubs offer their members several advantages not available to independent hunters. Members cite fellowship, opportunities to actively manage resources, and an increased sense of safety and security while hunting as primary reasons for joining clubs.
- Animal Waste Management and the Environment:
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Animal waste includes livestock and poultry manure, bedding and litter, plus such things as dairy parlor waste water, feedlot runoff, silage juices from trench silos and even wasted feed. These wastes can affect water quality if proper practices are not followed. These protective practices are very often referred to as best management practices (BMPs) and includes facilities or structures, management practices or vegetative cover.
- Wood-Fueled Home Heating Systems - Which is Best?
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Which system is best? This is a simple question for which there is no simple answer. Many factors have to be considered and many alternatives weighed, and each situation must be considered individually.
- Urban Forestry Laboratory Exercises
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Urban Forestry Laboratory Exercises has been developed as a supplemental activity guide that can be used in any science or interdisciplinary class. The hands-on activities are designed to be data gathering exercises leading the student to make judgments based on analysis and synthesis of the gathered data.
- Estimating Stocking Conditions in Your Timber Stand
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Added: October 20, 2008Stocking is an important measure foresters need to manage stands. Ideally, forest managers want a level of stocking that produces maximum yields of the products they want to grow.
- Chain Saw Safety After a Disaster
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Chain saws can be great laborsaving tools. But if not operated properly and with respect, they can quickly cause severe injury and death. This publication addresses some potential hazards that may be encountered while using a chain saw.
- Gypsy Moth Management for Homeowners
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Soon, the gypsy moth will become a household word in Tennessee. This obnoxious new neighbor will be eating its way through our hardwood forests, leaving some forests bare.
- Best Management Practices and Road Building
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This publication discusses Best Management Practices that can be used to help locate and construct road systems.
- Strip Disking and Other Valuable Bobwhite Quail Management Techniques
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In the South, habitats, whether open fields or wooded areas, that are allowed to grow up longer than three to four years without some type of soil or vegetative disturbance quickly grow out of good bobwhite habitat. Typically, management practices for open fields include prescribed burning annually or every two years, bush-hogging, disking, planting agricultural crops, and protection of some areas that grow up into brushy escape cover.
- Plant Berries for Birds
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Winter is when flocks of cedar waxwings and robins gorge themselves on winter berries. On the University of Georgia campus, these birds are now arriving en masse to feed on the black fruits of cherry laurel and red berries of American holly.
- Green Certification and the Future of Family Forests
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Forest certification is a hot topic; it is difficult to pick up a forestry publication without reading about it. Most writers view it positively and think America's forests "need" certification. This is cause for concern because it is a huge assumption. It also happens to be wrong.
- Tree Identification Database
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Provides images and descriptions of trees
- Control of Phytophthora Root Rot in Fraser Fir Christmas Trees BROKEN
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Phytophthora root rot is the only serious disease of Fraser fir Christmas trees in western North Carolina. It is caused by a fungus that inhabits the soil and infects many woody plants through the roots. It can lie dormant in the soil for several years waiting for a susceptible host such as Fraser fir and the right environmental conditions, including warm soil temperatures (above 54 degrees F.) and soils saturated with water to infect plant roots.
- Firewood: How to Obtain, Measure, Season, and Burn
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This fact sheet discusses the acquisition of firewood and the characteristics of different woods, along with the precautions that should be taken to properly burn wood in homes.
- Forest Stewardship: Timber Harvesting: An Essential Management Tool
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This bulletin discusses the benefits of harvesting timber and its importance in woodland stewardship.
- Planting and Care of Fine Hardwood Seedlings
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Added: October 20, 2008This brochure discusses the most important topics to consider in establishing a plantation of healthy fast-growing hardwoods.
- Forestry Assistance for Landowners
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This article provides descriptions of agencies and associations that can provide you with assistance in managing your woodland.
- Wisconsin Woodlands: Forestry Terms
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This publication provides an overview of forestry terms commonly used in forestry and woodland issues.
- Management of Farm Fish Ponds in Tennessee
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Added: February 16, 2008This bulletin provides management information to help pond owners produce the best fishing possible through good management.
- Managing Mississippi Farm Ponds and Small Lakes
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Because of poor planning, improper construction, or lack of proper management, many Mississippi lakes and ponds are relatively unproductive. A pond that consistently produces good catches of fish is a result of proper planning, construction, and management. The purpose of this publication is to encourage Mississippi landowners to plan, construct, and manage their ponds and lakes properly for recreational fishing.
- Comparison of Certification Schemes of Interest to USA Landowners
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Added: October 25, 2008Matrix of forest certification schemes including sponsor, costs, etc. by program.
- History, Ecology, and Management of the Louisiana Black Bear
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Many people believe the downward trend in bear population numbers can be reversed, and they are working actively to restore the black bears. If restoration is to be successful, it is because of public and private sectors working toward a common goal of balancing humans and black bears.
- Measurements and Pricing of Primary Wood Materials
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This guide is for people who would like to know how primary wood building products and wood fuel are sold. Topics discussed are softwood lumber, panel products such as plywood, wood molding and trim, wood flooring, wood shingles and shakes, wood posts, and cordwood.
- Dead Wood for Wildlife in the Wild Garden
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We humans think of dead things as useless. But in the wild world, many dead things have just begun to be valuable. Dead wood is an example. You can use it in woodpiles for wildlife. I like a woodpile outside a window under a tree.
- Disaster Relief: Safety Precautions With Snakes
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After a flood, storms, or hurricane, snakes are forced into places where they usually are not found. This publication provides a few precautions that should be taken in areas where poisonous snakes are common.
- Pruning Forest Trees
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Added: February 26, 2008This article describes the benefits and techniques for the proper pruning of trees in the yard and in the forest.
- Cool-Season Food Plots For Deer
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Would you like to improve your chances of harvesting more deer and turkey during the hunting season? You might improve your hunting success by providing deer with high-quality winter food plots. In most cases, your turkeys will readily use these plots, too.
- Comparison of Two Forest Certification Systems & Oregon Legal Requirements
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Added: October 24, 2008by Rick Fletcher, Paul Adams, Steve Radosevich. The purpose of the project is to document, compare and summarize the various standards and requirements of Oregon forest landowners under applicable state and federal laws, with two major, voluntary forest certification systems. It is not a assessment of implementation, but instead a policy analysis.
- Determining the Profitability of Timber Stand Improvement Investments
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You can increase the financial return from a tract (stand) of Missouri forest land by improving tree quality and woodland composition. Timber Stand Improvement (TSI) includes a broad range of practices: site preparation, thinning, release, pruning, and vine and weed removal.
