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- Kiln Drying Lumber: Some "Whys" and "Hows"
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For almost all uses, wood must be dried before it can be used effectively. Dry kilns are excellent means of controlling the drying process to ensure greatest success with the most economy.
- Deer Hunter's Guide for Aging and Jawbone Removal
- Best Management Practices for Braided Stream Systems: A Supplement to the 1994 BMP Manual
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Added: November 15, 2000Best Management Practices for ``Braided Stream Systems: ``A Supplement to the 1994 BMP Manual
- 2009 Florida Plant Disease Management Guide: Watercress
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Guide summarizing different diseases affecting watercress
- Help Save America's Pearly Mussels
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This publication will provide you with a brief look at freshwater mussels -- what they look like, where they live, what they eat, why they are valuable, how they are used, why some are in trouble, and how to protect these simple but important aquatic animals.
- Pesticide Safety and Personal Protective Equipment for Citrus Grove Workers
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Details basic safety precautions for those working with pesticides.
- Seasoning of Wood
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Seasoning is a costly and time consuming process and would not be employed except in special cases unless there were valid reasons why it is required.
- Hardwood Lumber Grades
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More people are becoming involved in do-it-yourself activities, ranging from putting up a bookshelf to renovating an existing structure. All too frequently, though, they don't know what grade of lumber they might need for a particular project.
- Herbicide Use: Information and Guidelines
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Herbicides are used to treat weeds and grasses to allow seedlings to grow. The Virginia Department of Forestry (VDOF) provides information and guidelines on herbicide use.
- Climate Changes Impacts on the Hydrology and Productivity of a Pine Plantation
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This study examines the effects of future climate changes on drainage and forest productivity.
- Wildland Resources Center-Links to Resources
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The Wildland Resources Center is a systemwide multicampus research unit. The Center is charged to relate not only to research but also to the extension and continuation of activities concerned with terrestrial natural resources.
- Timber Basis for Federal Income Tax
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This article reviews considerations for recovering capital expenditures and briefly touches on smoothing income flows to minimize passive losses.
- Kentucky Christmas Tree Production Workbook: Pest Control
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This publication describes ways to minimize insect problems in Christmas tree plantations and completely avoid the need for insect pest control.
- When Cities Grow Wild - Contents
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Here in the Halifax (Nova Scotia) Regional Municipality, there are a number of projects underway and the practice is supported through both municipal and school board policy1. Yet despite its wide acclaim for providing such rewarding and positive experiences, the whole process is unfortunately diminished the moment the child leaves the schoolground to walk home through an urban landscape marked by conventional horticultural standards
- Recycling Municipal Trees
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Added: July 18, 2008The purpose of this guide is to make officials of municipalities aware of an alternative strategy for using their street tree removals; a "recycling" strategy which can potentially turn a cost-burden scenario into an income-generating opportunity. The strategy involves merchandising sawmill-size logs from street tree removals to sawmills or other companies that have unique uses for street tree logs.
- Establishing Riparian Buffers
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This publication discusses establishing riparian buffers and plant selection.
- Strength of Solid Tree Stems
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Added: October 31, 2008The strength of tree stems to resist bending in the wind is associated with the cross-sectional area of the stem. Strength is proportional to the diameter of the stem to the fourth power (DIAMETER). Small increases in diameter yield large increases in strength. This publication presents a theoretical examination of relative strengths of round stems as modeled by bending moments in solid cylinders. Resistance to torsional forces (twist) are two times that of bending forces.
- Selecting and Shipping Samples To Help Determine Cause of Fish Kills
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A guide to fish kills.
- Brown Spot in Florida Rice
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Brown spot is one of the most important rice diseases in Florida. The disease can adversely affect the yield and milling quality of the grain. Under environmental conditions conducive to disease, yield loss estimates range from 16 to 40 percent in Florida. This document summarizes brown spot.
- The Value of Landscaping
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The Value of Landscaping
- SCFC- Before You Sell Your Timber
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Before you sell your timber consider these suggestions.
- Growing Quality Wood from CRP Plantations
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Added: October 25, 2008All that can be seen of a growing tree is the outside, but the inside is what determines its value as raw material for wood products. A pine tree grows noticeably taller and bigger around each year, and it adds new branches and new needles. Under normal growing conditions, it also adds a new layer of wood along its entire length in the form of a continuous sheath under the bark. Annual overlapping sheaths are what form the main stem and the branches.
- Excerpts From a "Whitepaper"
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Added: October 25, 2008This paper was prepared by the Critical Issues Committee of the Society of Wood Science and Technology (SWST) to assist academic, industrial, and government leaders in understanding the environmental implications of using wood-based products. Consideration of how to meet human needs for materials and still maintain or enhance other needs of the forest is vital. Forests cannot be isolated from human influence or from human needs.
- Soil Compaction Impacts on Tree Roots
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Added: October 31, 2008Compaction impacts trees in many ways. Generally, compaction associated physiological dysfunctions cause systemic damage and decline, as well as failures in dealing with additional environ- mental changes. Physical / mechanical constraints negatively modify responses in the tree resulting in inefficient use of essential resources. The symptoms we see in trees under compacted soil conditions have causes stemming from disruptions of the internal sense, communication, and response process.
- Control of Shoot-root Balance in Trees
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This publication is a synthesis of the tree growth regulation and correlation literature. General processes and systems presented here represent educational models which professionals can use to better appreciate and understand basic tree functions.
- Wildlife Diversity: The Links of Life
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This book explores the "links of life"--what they need and how they grow.
- Tree Heights & Force of Fall
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Trees represent large amounts of potential energy standing above the ground. When trees fall, the force with which they hit the ground surface is proportional to their height to the fifth power.
- Urban Forestry
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What is an urban forest? It is all of the trees and other vegetation in and around a town, village or city. Traditionally it has referred to tree-lined streets, but an urban forest also includes trees in home landscapes, schoolyards, parks, riverbanks, cemeteries, utility rights-of-way, adjacent woodlands and anywhere else trees can grow.
- Plant the Right Tree in the Right Place
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Added: July 19, 2008Trees planted in the wrong place can cause property damage and become a detriment rather than an asset. Planning the location and species of a tree will ensure that the tree will be an asset and not grow into a hazard or a nuisance.
- Erosion Control & Wildlife Plantings for Forestry Operations
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Timber management creates openings in the form of roads, stream crossings, log decks, skid trails, and firebreaks. Establishing vegetative cover on these areas reduces soil erosion and prevents offsite sediment. The purpose of this publication is to provide forest land managers with a variety of seeding mixtures that will stabilize sites and provide benefits to many species of wildlife.
