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- Causes of Soil Compaction
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Added: November 05, 2008In order to understand and visualize soil compaction more completely, the underlying causes must be appreciated. Soil compaction is primarily caused by construction and development activities, utility installation, infrastructure use and maintenance, and concentrated animal, pedestrian, and vehicle traffic. Below are listed individual components of how soil is compacted.
- What Tree is That
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Tree Identification at its best from the Arbor Day foundation!
- Using Soils to Guide Fertilizer Recommendations for Southern Pines
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This circular characterizes forest soils of the lower Coastal Plain region and presents fertilizer recommendations for the various CRIFF groups.
- Tree Decay: An Expanded Concept
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The purpose of this publication is to clarify further the tree decay concept that expands the classical concept to include the orderly response of the tree to wounding and infection-compartmentalization-and the orderly infection of wounds by many microorganisms-successions.
- Recreation Options for Your Forestland
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On any given day, one only needs to look outside to see the positive effect that recreation has on individuals and society. The chance to reduce stress, exercise body and mind, and interact with others in an outdoor setting provides millions of Americans with numerous benefits directly related to their health, happiness and productivity.
- Ideotype Development in Southern Pines: Rationale and Strategies...
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There are numerous obstacles to the development of ideotypes for southern pines; fortunately, as we enter the 21st century, several relevant advances are converging that bode well for overcoming these obstacles.
- How to Recognize Hazardous Defects in Trees
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Trees add to our enjoyment of outdoor experiences whether in forests, parks, or urban landscapes. Too often, we are unaware of the risks associated with defective trees, which can cause personal injury and property damage. Interest in hazard tree management has increased in recent years due to safety and liability concerns resulting from preventable accidents. Recognizing hazardous trees and taking proper corrective actions can protect property and save lives.
- How to Plant Forest Trees
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This article outlines the steps necessary to plant a healthing tree, including seed preparation and fertilization.
- Greenebriar Treasure Forest
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info on forestry,conservation groups, forest taxation, wildlife, and publications
- Domestic Rabbits And Their Care
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This publication discusses the proper ways to care for a domesticated rabbit.
- click-forestry
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Directory of UK forestry products and services
- Producing and Marketing Wild Simulated Ginseng in Forest and Agroforestry Systems
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Within this publication, a system of growing ginseng called wild simulated ginseng production will be described. Using this production system, landowners may establish naturalized populations of wild American ginseng on the forest floor in their privately-owned woodlands.
- Nurseries and Tree Improvement
- Economic Importance of Wildlife
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We will examine the problem of``determining the value of wildlife. We will review six different kinds of wildlife values and learn how some``values can be measured while others cannot.
- Backburning as an Alternative to Traditional Pre-Commercial Thinning
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Two studies--at the USDA Forestry Science Laboratories in Macon, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina--suggest that the cost of pre-commercial thinning can be reduced with low-intensity prescribed burning.
- Skunk Management
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This publication offers solutions to make lawn/landscape unattractive to skunks.
- Storms Over the Urban Forest
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Planning, Responding, and Regreening-- ``A community Guide to Natural Disaster Relief
- SCFC- Before You Sell Your Timber
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Before you sell your timber consider these suggestions.
- Pruning Guide for Storm Force Reduction in Tree Crowns
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Storm force impacts on trees can lead to catastrophic structural failures. Wind loads on trees are concentrated in the crowns acting near the end of a long lever arm (the stem) at some distance from the ground. Generated forces are centered at a point app...
- Growing Shiitake Mushrooms
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Added: October 06, 2008As an alternative enterprise in the United States, Shiitake represents a way to utilize a forest resource that, in many cases,is considered a weed.
- Forest Stewardship: Estate Planning
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This bulletin outlines the procedures necessary to create an estate plan that will ensure the orderly transfer of your cherished forest land intact and with a minimum tax burden.
- Coyote Control in the Eastern United States BROKEN
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Coyote Control in the Eastern United States
- Conservation and the Water Cycle
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Water moves from clouds to land and back to the ocean in a never ending cycle. This is the water cycle, or the hydrologic cycle.
- Commercial Christmas Tree Crops
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Christmas trees, like any other crop, require balanced nutrition for best health and growth. Christmas trees are unique among most crops, though, since their value is based on their aesthetic quality and not their biomass yield. In order to assure balanced nutrition, it is necessary to insure that the soil contains enough available nutrients to satisfy the trees' demands.
- Your Florida Dooryard Citrus Guide - Pruning
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Guide for the non-mechanical pruning of Dooryard Citrus
- Understanding Log Scales and Log Rules
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This publication describes common methods of log scaling and log rules used in Tennessee.
- Virginia Tech Pesticide Programs
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This link is to the Virginia Tech Pesticide Programs page. It provides educational opportunities and information for people who use pesticides as part of their daily lives, consumers with questions, and students.
- Thinning Pine Stands for Top Returns
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It generally takes from 30 to 40 years to grow a stand of pine sawtimber to economic maturity. However, it is usually necessary to cut some of the trees before the stand reaches maturity. Cuttings made in immature stands to stimulate the growth of the remaining trees and thereby improve the yield of the stand are called thinnings.
- Thanksgiving: A Forest Feast
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Forests have been, and remain, a critical cultural and economic foundation for this nation. Our close relationship with the forests that surround us can be demonstrated by the struggle and success of early European settlers. Thanksgiving is a holiday cele...
- South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
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The Department develops and implements policies and programs for the conservation, management, utilization and protection of the state's natural resources based upon scientifically sound resource management, assessment and monitoring, applied research, technology transfer, comprehensive planning, public education, technical assistance and constituent involvement.
