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- Site Preparation Methods for Regenerating Southern Pines
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With adequate site preparation, southern pine stands can be regenerated by natural means (using seed from mature trees about to be harvested) or artificial means (planting seedlings or direct seeding).
- Plant Trees Right!
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Added: October 25, 2008Getting trees started correctly in your yard, along streets or in a park is critical to long tree life, easy care and low-cost maintenance. One way to ensure trees are planted correctly is to give them plenty of room to grow. Fruit trees, trees in landscape beds and specimen ornamental trees are grown for different reasons and are not planted the same way as shade and street trees. Here, we deal with shade and street tree planting.
- Planning a Waste Pesticide Disposal Program
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From 1994 to 1998, the Mississippi Waste Pesticide Disposal Program helped farmers and other property owners dispose of more than 650,000 pounds of waste pesticides. This publication is designed as a learning tool to help others plan similar programs.
- Measuring Woodland Timber
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Forest products, like other agricultural commodities, must be measured before they are sold. Few woodland owners, however,understand the reasons for or the methods of measuring woodland timber.
- Make a Stone Pile in Your "Wild Garden"
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Added: October 20, 2008A stone pile in an old fence row is a fascinating detail in a rural landscape. A sunny, springtime day is a good time to go stealthily along your favorite paths and creep up on a rock pile. Its picturesque, lichen-covered rocks seem to date to antiquity.
- Intermediate-Aged Stand Management: Between Planting and Harvest
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Many forest stands in Georgia suffer from three common problems of middle-aged forests: Poor management, if any at all; no planning for regeneration; and stands that are too dense.
- Harperella (Ptilimnium nodosum)
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Found on and around wet sand bars, shoals, seeps, fast-flowing clear rocky streams, wet savanna meadows, shallow depressions in flatwoods, shallow pineland pools and ditches. Grows well under open canopies of oak, hickory, and pine. Short duration, annual...
- Glossary of Forestry Terms
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This glossary contains many useful forestry terms.
- Federal Income Tax on Timber - Key to Questions
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This publication examines the most common situations noncorporate taxpayers face when calculating Federal income tax on their timber holdings. It addresses aspects of each situation using a three column format.
- 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
- Aquatic Identification and Control: Spatterdock and Yellow Water Lily BROKEN
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This publication provides information on controlling spatterdock and yellow water lily.
- Neutral Plane Faults & Stem Strength
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Added: October 31, 2008In storm damage and tree failure assessments, estimating residual strength of damaged trees is difficult and filled with complex, dynamic interactions between the soil, tree, and environment. To help tree specialists appreciate tree biomechanics, this publication was developed to present the maximum relative strength values for two unique, ideal situations--neutral plane faults leaving two stem halves and four stem quarters. This theoretical view can help better understand certain mechanical forces and resistances.
- WOOD IN TRANSPORTATION
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The Wood In Transportation (WIT) Program, formerly known as the National Timber Bridge Initiative, has funded over 322 modern timber bridge projects in 48 states during the last nine years. More than 195 have been completed, and they are demonstrating the use of wood in transportation applications.
- Mechanical Harvesting and Tree Health
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details various injury and harm that can befall a tree subjected to mechanical harvesting techniques
- 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.
- 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...
- Basic Water Properties: Attributes and Reactions Essential for Tree Life
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Added: November 05, 2008Water is essential to tree life. Water is a solvent, transporter, buffer, and reagent for the tree. Water is the most limiting of all essential tree resources. Trees have developed specialized organs, processes, and surfaces to use and conserve water carefully. The value of water lies with its chemical properties, physical reactions, and biological uses. This publication will review what is water, and how it supports life through its properties.
- Timber Harvest Tax: Who Pays, When, Where and How Much?
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Since 1992, timber value is no longer added to the value of the land in the county tax digest. Timber and land are each a separate class of property and are taxed differently.
- The Value of Landscaping
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The Value of Landscaping
- Insect and Mite Galls On Missouri Trees
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Galls are abnormal vegetative growths that can be found on practically every part of a plant. It is usually structurally strong and rich in protein, and provides protection and food for the occupant developing within.
- How Forest Trees Grow
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Knowing how forest trees grow can help woodland owners predict yeilds. Being able to understand the growing cycles of different trees will also help the owner decide when and how to plant, thin and prune trees to increase wood production.
- Growing Christmas Trees on Reclaimed Surface-Mined Land
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Christmas tree production can be an excellent use for reclaimed mined lands in Virginia. Most species do quite well on mine soils because they are more tolerant of the acid, infertile, and droughty conditions than agricultural or horticultural crops, yet they do respond to active management.
- Vegetation Control
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Regardless of the species of Christmas trees grown or the type of vegetation surrounding them, vegetation (brush, grass, weeds) control is the most important cultural practice during a plantation�s life. Control will ensure high quality tree production at a minimum cost.
- Trees for Medians in Tennessee
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This publication explains the guidelines for selecting a tree as a median and provides a listing of the most popular median trees.
- The Control of Burrowing Crayfish in Ponds
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This publications covers various topics about crayfish, such as ecological and economic importance, control methods, and cleaning and cooking techniques.
- The Balsam Woolly Adelgid (Aphid)
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The balsam woolly adelgid (Adelges piceae) (BWA), previously called the balsam woolly aphid, is a tiny, soft bodied insect which appears as white, woolly spots on Fraser fir.
- Sustainable Communities/ZERI-NM
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Sustainable Forests and making use of the small diameter trees and brush that are removed for fire prevention.
- Sphaeropsis Shoot Blight
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Non-native, exotic pine species growing outside their natural range are especially vulnerable to attack. Other predisposing environmental factors include poor site, drought, hail or snow damage, compacted soils, excessive shading, insect activity or other mechanical wounding.
- Southern Pine Beetle Internet Control Center
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This is the clearinghouse for southern pine beetle information, control strategies, research, and other ongoing activities. This site also supports communication among the community involved with SPB.
- Overview of Wood-Fired Boiler Use in West Virginia
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The objective of this fact sheet is to provide an overview of the amount of wood residue used for fuel in wood-fired boilers and of changes in the use of wood residue for process heat and steam generation between 1992 and 1997.
