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- Leasing Your Hunting Rights
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Leasing Your Hunting Rights: Considerations for Drafting a Proper Lease Agreement.
- Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis)
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At 19.5 inches (50 cm), the ivory-billed woodpecker is the largest of the North American woodpeckers -- about the size of a crow. A red crest marks the male; females have a black crest. Both have a white stripe on the side of the head.
- Irrigation Water Quality Guidelines For Mississippi
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Levels and specific composition of dissolved mineral substances in water for irrigation affect crop productivity and soil structure, and determine suitability of water for irrigation. Guidelines outlined in this publication consider several areas of concern, including salinity and toxicity of specific constituents.
- Hydrilla
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Hydrilla (Hydrilla verticillata) is a submersed aquatic plant that forms nearly impenetrable mats of stems and leaves at the surface of the water. Originally called Florida elodea, this plant causes many problems in ponds, lakes, and rivers.
- Guide to Permanent Unpaved Roads on Wet Soils
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How to plan, layout, construct, stabilize, use, and maintain roads.
- Growing Christmas Trees in North Carolina
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This publication provides basic information to assist individuals in growing Christmas trees. It attempts to address the wide range of production, marketing, and business issues that may be encountered in such a venture.
- Glossary of Terms Used in Timber Harvesting and Forest Engineering
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Provides definitions for 1,026 words and terms used in timber harvesting and forest engineering, with an emphasis on terms related to timber harvesting operations. Terminology dealing with basic forestry, harvesting equipment, and economics is stressed.
- Georgia Urban Forest Council
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Added: January 14, 2008The Georgia Urban Forest Council is a non-profit organization offering educational and other opportunities to promote excellent community forestry policies, programs and practices throughout Georgia.
- Forest Soils and Site Index
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Soil quality is the most important factor in forest management decisions. Soils will determine which tree species yields the greatest timber volume, the time to harvest, and ultimately, the investment a landowner must make to yield an acceptable economic return from forest management.
- Forest Products
- Forest Management
- Fine Tuning Equalizing and Conditioning
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If lumber is not properly equalized and conditioned during drying, problems will surface during further manufacturing and end use. These problems range from bad glue joints, to stair stepping1 in panels, to twist, cup and warp of finished panels, to splitting of panels.
- Environmental Management
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Protecting other resources while conducting forest management activities is what good stewardship is all about.
- Ecology & Management of the Northern Bobwhite
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This publication provides information that will help with the successful management of the bobwhite quail.
- Don't Destroy Your Wild Garden: Leave Some Natural Habitat
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A woman called the other day for advice about some ``wild land'' she and her husband had bought. They would be moving there from their house on a microscopic lot in Athens.
- Creating a Water-Wise Landscape
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Minimizing the need for watering in your landscape requires careful observation, planning, and common sense. Several principles for water- wise landscaping include choosing the best design and plants, preparing soils, and watering properly for efficient water use.
- Construction and Tree Protection
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This is an interactive desk reference section of the North Carolina Forest Extension.
- Concepts of Change: Futuring Community Forestry
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Added: October 31, 2008The one common, constant feature of the future will be accelerating change. Community natural resource management is changing as fast as the nation's demographics and quality of life technologies. As managers, we must be prepared for change, expect change, and allow change to help us manage more effectively.
- Coloring Christmas Trees Before Harvest
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For some species, such as Fraser fir, the deep green color can be maintained by adequate levels of soil fertility. The application of nitrogen fertilizers on a regular basis is sufficient to maintain healthy trees with the desired color. Many species, however, are not so responsive to fertilizers, and for these, the most common way to maintain the desired color is to spray them with a colorant.
- Brown Blood Disease BROKEN
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Brown blood disease occurs in fish when water contains high nitrite concentrations. Nitrite enters the bloodstream through the gills and turns the blood to a chocolate-brown color.
- Aquatic Weed Identification and Control: Duckweed and Water Hycinth BROKEN
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The attractive water hycinth and abundant duckweed are usually not problematic, however, at times they may become pests. This publication offers suggestions on treatments that can be used to easily rid yourself of these two aquatic weeds.
- Cercosporidium Blight of Leyland Cypress and Related Conifers
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Profiles Cercosporidium Blight and the conifer trees it affects
- Responsible Winter Storage of Pesticides and Fertilizers
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This publication explains the importance of properly storing pesticides and fertilizers.
- Fall Tree Color Pigments
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Added: October 20, 2008Autumn tree colors grace our landscapes. The palette of potential colors are as diverse as the natural world. The climate-induced senescence process trees use to pass into a winter rest period, can present many colors to the eye. The color pigments pro...
- Soil Damage from Compaction
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Having reviewed the primary means by which soils become compacted, the results of compaction can be estimated for tree and soil health.
- Section 1: Recommended trees for Missouri Landscapes
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The trees in this section are considered to be desirable species. They should grow well in Missouri when planted properly under the right conditions.
- Aquatic and Marine Ecosystems, 4H
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Aquatic and Marine Ecosystems (4H MEL 20) is a leader-led project that teaches young people about aquatic and marine ecosystems. Activity pages in the back of the 1-inch loose-leaf notebook can be taken out and reproduced by educators.
- Tree Fall Distance Estimate
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The distance covered by a falling tree is critical for removal of targets and defense of landscape features. The distance within range of a falling tree impacts right-of-way management, trail and road protection, and valuation procedures.
- Contribution of Roads to Forest Fragmentation
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Fragmentation affects animal populations in a variety of ways, including decreased species diversity and lower densities of some animal species in the resulting smaller patches. This study seeks to quantify the effects of roads and logging activities on forest habitat.
- Forest Provides Income from Crafts, Edibles, and More
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Although it is typical to manage forests for timber, pulpwood and other wood products, this publication identifies other forest products that may turn into extra money more quickly. These products include crafts, medicinals, ornamental landscaping and edibles.
