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- Financial Aid to Private Landowners
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This publication briefly describes cost-share, loan, grant, easement/land retirement, and land donation programs available to private landowners or that could be applied to private lands to acquire, manage, conserve, and protect natural resources in Minnesota.
- Tree Risk Management and Hazard Assessment: A General Overview
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Management of urban forests includes maintenance, protection and prevention of problems. It denotes expertise at the organism level, and fimiliarity and knowledge of social systems.
- Landowner's Guide to Managing Streams in the Eastern United States
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This publication provides general information and management guidelines to help stream property owners and their neighbors protect, improve, and restore these valuable running waters.
- Tree Foundation: 50 Careers in Trees
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A compendium of information and inspiration assembled with love for present and future stewards of our urban forests.
- Tree and Shrub Selection
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Educational materials containing tree and shrub selection information
- NSA ONLINE
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National Sportsman Association (NSA) leases hunting rights from landowners who have properties in VA, MD and WVA. NSA has managed hunting leases since 1974 and conducts its activities in a manner which not only benefits wildlife but also provides a means of income to landowners and provides recreational opportunities to responsible sportsmen.
- Snakes of Georgia
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Powerpoint slides of the snakes of Georgia.
- Marketing Your Timber for Top Dollar
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Got a big tree? It might be worth $2, $20, or $200 sold where it stands! Timbered acres can be worth a lot of money--sometimes more than cropland. How much money depends upon what you have and what buyers want. This fact sheet briefly describes how trees used for wood products are valued and measured.
- Growth and Yield
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Predicting the future growth and yield of your forest stand(s) is an essential part of the planning process for your forest land. This page will provide you with a basic understanding of the concepts of growth and yield. A look at these concepts in the context of even- and uneven-age stand structure will also be provided.
- A Landowner's Guide to Building Foesty Access Roads
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Added: July 26, 2002Roads provide needed access to small woodlots; however, high costs, land disturbance, degradation of water quality, and destruction of fish habitat can all result from poor development, construction, and maintenance of forest roads. This guide was developed to give private owners of small woodlots the basic information needed to avoid these problems and protect valued natural resources.
- Keys to Soil Taxonomy
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Soil classification system
- A Handbook for Forest Vegetation Management in Recreation and Historic Parks
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Added: February 12, 2008This handbook provides information on general forest ecology for parks in the Southeastern United States, as well as management advice for achieving many objectives common to recreational and historical parks in the region. Maintaining healthy forests, dealing with exotic species, controlling turf and meadow areas, and creating screens and windbreaks are all common issues faced by many park managers. These and more are addressed in this handbook.
- Marketing and Selling Your Timber
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Your forest may be more valuable than you know. This publication outlines points to consider when marketing/selling your timber.
- Tax Deductions and Depreciation
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Landowners who can demonstrate a profit motive``can deduct 1) capital costs (which form the cost``basis of the property); 2) currently deductible``expenditures for man agement and protection; 3)``costs of sale.``expenses can be recovered when the timber is sold.
- Stocking Sportfishing Ponds
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Because proper initial stocking of new or innovated sportfishing ponds produces the maximum number and weight of harvestable fish, it is one of the best management tools available to fish pond owners. Using a combination of recommended species, appropriat...
- Managing Your Restored Wetland
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This publication discusses various wetland topics such as economic functions, restoration, and management.
- Invasion of the Weird Trees
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....they come in all shapes and sizes. They fill the air with sweet,``fragrant scents of spring blossoms, and splash the landscape with``brilliant colors in the fall. They cool the air with their shade and``provide a barrier against the harsh winter wind. They add beauty``and comfort to our lives, as well as furnishing us with thousands of``products we use every day.
- Forestry BMP Implementation Costs for Virginia
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Forestry Best Management Practices (BMPs) are operational techniques used to protect water quality during timber harvesting operations. The implementation cost of BMPs is important to loggers, forest landowners, and the forest industry. This study provides an estimate of BMP implementation cost on a per harvested acre basis for the coastal plain, Piedmont, and mountains of Virginia.
- Forest Health Monitoring in the North Central States
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This publication provides basic information about forest health to land managers, extension personnel, students, educators, those involved in setting public policy, and the general public.
- Taxation of Capital Gains
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The Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 made many changes in the taxation of long-term capital gains for individuals. Individuals holding timber and timberland must be aware of the changes to minimize the income tax impact on sales of these assets.
- Snakes Alive! How To Identify Snakes
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Added: October 05, 2008Most poisonous snakes in the United States belong to the pit viper group. The pit viper has pits on its head, vertical pupils, a triangular head, slim neck, and a heavy body with a single row of scales on the underside of the tail.
- Pruning shade trees in the landscape
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Pruning is a double-edged sword, either helping or hurting according to if, where, when, how, and why it is applied. When properly executed, a variety of benefits can occur. Benefits include reducing risk of branch and stem breakage, better clearance for vehicles and pedestrians, improved health and appearance, enhanced view, and increased flowering. When improperly performed, pruning can harm the tree's health, stability, and appearance and make matters worse.
- Marketing Your Timber: The Products
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Knowledge of forest products is fundamental to helping forest landowners effectively market timber. Therefore, a basic understanding of the major forest product groups is essential to helping landowners get the highest price when marketing their timber.
- Fusiform Rust (Cronartium quercuum f. sp. fusiforme)
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Fusiform rust, is the most damaging disease of slash and loblolly pines throughout the southeastern United States. This disease causes stem, branch and trunk cankers (galls) to form on infected trees.
- Forest Ecology Map Pack
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Added: October 20, 2008Maps depicting the major soil areas of Georgia, major watersheds of Georgia, solar radiation zone analysis in Georgia, temperature zone analysis in Georgia, average days above 90F, average cooling degree days, average days below 32F, average heating degree...
- Development and Implementation of Fisheries Bycatch Monitoring Programs...BROKEN
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Fishery resources are harvested from Gulf of Mexico waters using a variety of gears and methods. With few exceptions, most of the fisheries have an element of bycatch associated with them.
- Insect Pests of Christmas Trees
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This site contains images and descriptions of various insect pests that affect christmas trees
- Wood Ducks in Mississippi
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Wood ducks are one of three migratory waterfowl that nest regularly in Mississippi. Along with the mallard, wood ducks are some of the most abundant ducks in Mississippi, and they make up a large percentage of waterfowl bagged in Mississippi each year. They also are excellent table fare.
- Why Leaves Change Color
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Added: March 29, 2004A good explaination of this wonderful event that takes place every fall.
- Using Rotenone To Renovate Fish Populations In Farm Ponds
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The ultimate fate of many farm ponds in Mississippi is an unbalanced fish population that is undesirable to fishermen, and, therefore, has little recreational fishing value. Once a fish population reaches such a condition, the best alternative is usually to eliminate the resident fish completely and to restock with a desirable combination of fish at recommended rates.
