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- Snags, Cavity Trees, and Downed Logs
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Added: October 06, 2008Snags, cavity trees, and downed logs provide habitat for a wide variety of wildlife species; as such, they are important components of the forest.
- Shiitake Mushroom Production on Logs
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A complete step-by-step guide to production of shiitake mushrooms.
- Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees
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Trees are the basic element for any landscape plan. They set the stage for the entire home grounds design. The type used and their location determine to a great extent what other plantings are appropriate.
- Selecting A Consulting Forester
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Added: October 01, 1999Some questions that you might want to consider when selecting a consulting forester.
- RNGR - Reforestation, Nurseries and Genetics Resources
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Added: October 25, 2008RNGR is the USDA Forest Service clearing house for reforestation, forest and conservation nurseries, and forest genetics information.
- Preferential Assessment, Current Use Valuation, and Timber Tax FAQ
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A presentation of questions and answers collected over the past several years for ad valorem tax issues in Georgia.
- Practice and Potential of Agroforestry in the Southeastern United States
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The purpose of the following instructional document—officially called a white paper—is to help farmers, landowners, extension professionals and policymakers develop solutions to some of the problems they or their clients face, using agroforestry as a land management tool.
- PLANTS National Database
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The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.
- Partial Poisoning of Overcrowded Fish Ponds
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The ultimate fate of many farm ponds is an overcrowded bluegill population that has few bass present. This is a classical condition that results when largemouth bass populations are overfished.
- Oaks and Other Trees May Naturally Shed Small Branches
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From time to time, natural pruning of small branches from oaks and other trees causes alarm to homeowners because they think the tree is dying. This is referred to as branch abscission or cladoptosis. A similar abscission process occurs when deciduous trees shed their leaves each fall.
- Money CAN Grow on Trees
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This page contains a series of fact sheets designed to help you make the most of your West Virginia woodlands, with topics ranging from taxes to forest management.
- Major Watersheds of Georgia
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The direct or indirect source of water for irrigation, power, industry, domestic use, navigation, and recreation comes from water falling over and flowing down forested watersheds in Georgia. Watersheds are areas where one major river system drains the la...
- Major Tree Insect Pests
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Added: September 05, 2008Forestry.about.com's forest insect and health section.
- Landscape Plants That Attract Birds
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This publication discusses ways of designing your landscape that will benefit birds and still follow basic principles of landscape design.
- Guide to Permanent Unpaved Roads on Wet Soils
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How to plan, layout, construct, stabilize, use, and maintain roads.
- Forest Landowners - Guide to the Federal Income Tax
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Added: April 30, 2008This publication is the latest in a series of income tax handbooks for nonindustrial private forest owners that extends back over 45 years. It represents a major revision of Agriculture Handbook No. 708, Forest Owners? Guide to the Federal Income Tax. It updates that publication to include tax legislation passed after 1994 and administrative changes promulgated through 2000.
- Food Plots - Common Plants
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Food plots are widely used by landowners to improve wildlife habitat. Food plots can be used to attract animals for harvest or viewing. In general, food plots are an expensive attempt to improve wildlife habitat. Food plots have little or no wildlife value if food plots are established at the expense of maintaining cover. Wildlife needs both adequate food and cover within a reasonable distance of each other.
- Designing a Prescribed Fire Demonstration Area
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This site focuses on how to design a prescribed fire demonstration and the benefits that come from prescribed burning.
- Agroforestry in Minnesota: A Guide to Resource & Demonstration Sites
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This guide is designed to provide information on the concepts and practices of agroforestry.
- Tree Roots in Urban Landscapes
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The top of the tree is easy to see, thus any problems there are quickly noted. But did you know that much of the tree decline you see above ground is due to problems originating below ground?
- Smart Communities Network: Land Use Codes/Ordinances
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Community sustainability requires a transition from poorly-managed sprawl to land use planning practices that create and maintain efficient infrastructure, ensure close-knit neighborhoods and sense of community, and preserve natural systems. This section provides an introduction to key planning principles as well as resources for strategies, tools, and civic participation to help your community with sustainable land use planning.
- Federal Grant Forms
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Added: November 20, 2008Standard Forms 424 and SF-424a are the basis for most federal grant programs and can be downloaded from this site.
- Landscape Plants for Georgia
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Landscape Plants for Georgia is an effort to compile a list of good plants organized into various sizes and groups. It does not list all available plant materials but rather brings together the best possible groupings according to the principles and requirements of good landscape design and plant maintenance. It is not possible to offer pictures of the plants. Many publications, books and web sites, however, have good plant pictures.
- Tree-Literate Treehouses
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Added: November 05, 2008There is an attraction between trees and children. A tree's constant motion even in the stillest air, and its great size and reach make a tree fascinating. At some stage during child development, when motor skills and hand grip are refined and strong, tree climbing becomes a play task. The world is filled with trees to climb.
- Community Forestry
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Resources and case studies on landowners managing multiple properties cooperatively.
- Large Trees For North Carolina
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Large trees are dominant features in the landscape. Many plans rely on trees for several design functions: to provide background, enclosure, define spaces, help reduce noise and unsightly views. Trees also provide needed shade, channel breezes, and break forceful winds. They also help the environment by filtering pollutants and exchanging oxygen for carbon dioxide.
- The University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
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Added: October 25, 2008The Daniel B. Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources offers rewarding degrees in Forestry, Fish & Wildlife, Soil and Water Resources, and Natural Resources Recreation and Tourism.
- The National Park System
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"...to promote and regulate the use of the...national parks...which purpose is to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations."
- How to Recognize and Reduce Tree Hazards in Recreation Sites
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An understanding of the many factors affecting tree hazards in recreation sites will help predict which trees are most likely to fail. Hazard tree management deals with probabilities of failure. This guide, written for anyone involved in management or maintenance of public use areas that contain trees, is intended to help minimize the risk associated with hazard trees by presenting information on their identification and treatment
- Tree Crops for Marginal Farmland Royal Paulownia
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Added: February 12, 2008This guide briefly describes the methods and costs of growing Royal Paulownia trees in the southern United States. It includes a financial analysis which uses estimated costs and expected returns to evaluate a representative investment.
