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- 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...
- Planners Web
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Planning Commissioners Journal: Planners Web - City and Regional Planning Resources
- Pest Alert: Black-headed Pine Sawfly
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In early November 1999, several reports were received about pine defoliation in Upshur, Smith, Angelina, Cherokee, and Houston counties. It has been determined that an insect, the blackheaded pine sawfly (Neodiprion excitans), is causing the defoliation.
- Nutrient Management for Christmas Trees
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As commercial Christmas tree production increases in South Carolina, so do the problems growers are experiencing. However,with proper planning and careful management, Christmas trees can grow successfully in South Carolina.
- Mourning Dove
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Mourning Dove management.
- Elm Leaf Beetle
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The elm leaf beetle attacks all species of elm, it may also become a household nuisance by migrating into homes and buildings during the fall months.
- Cut and Leave: A Method for Controlling Southern Pine Beetle Infestations
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The cut-and-leave method is an effective means of controlling small remote spots (10 to 50 infested trees) that cannot be salvaged.
- Common Fraser Fir Insect Pests BROKEN
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This site contains pictures of common fraser fir insect pests.
- Wild Turkey Management In Alabama
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This publication provides information on the wild turkey relating to its life history, habitat needs, and habitat management.
- Understanding the Science Behind Riparian Forest Buffers: Effects on Plant and Animal Communities
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Loss of native riparian vegetation can result in a loss of habitat for many animals. Therefore, the restoration of riparian forest buffers along Virginia's streams and lakes is important to maintaining and restoring Virginia's fish and wildlife populations.
- Greenebriar Treasure Forest
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info on forestry,conservation groups, forest taxation, wildlife, and publications
- Building Freshwater Fish Attractors
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Freshwater fish attractors concentrate fish by providing cover, structure, spawning habitat and an attachment surface for many fish food organisms.
- Nitrogen Prescriptions for Trees
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Added: October 31, 2008Supplemental nitrogen fertilization should be treated as a fined-tuned, carefully considered, constantly modified, whole tree prescription process. The whole tree wins or loses with the changing reactions of one major organ or resource.
- Longleaf Pine (Pinus Palustris) Pests: A Selected Bibliography
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Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) is stressed by a number of pests--some of them significant to the lifespan and utilization of the pine. Recent papers on longleaf pine pests are given in this publication.
- A Guide for 4-H Wood Science Projects
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The purpose of Wood Science Projects is to introduce young people to the characteristics of wood that give it potential as a raw material for products as varied as furniture for homes, lumber for construction, barrels for liquids and airplane parts.
- Fertigation Nutrient Sources and Application Considerations for Citrus
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Details the application of various fertilizers though irrigation systems
- USEPA Great Lakes Ecosystems - Green Landscaping: Greenacres Index Page
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Landscaping with native wildflowers and grasses improves the environment. Natural landscaping brings a taste of wilderness to urban, suburban, and corporate settings by attracting a variety of birds, butterflies and other animals. Once established, native plants do not need fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides or watering, thus benefiting the environment and reducing maintenance costs. Gardeners and admirers enjoy the variety of colors, shapes, and seasonal beauty of these plants
- Managing for Hardwood
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Benefits from hardwood forests include watershed protection, wildlife, timber, recreation, and aesthetics. Increased demand for hardwood, due to tighter controls on federal lands and the hardwood exports, has increased the need for management of existing hardwood stands.
- Farm Tractor Logging for Woodlot Owners
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Farm tractor logging guide for small acreage.
- Land Use When CRP Payments End: What History Tells Us in Georgia
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Keeping lands planted in trees will reduce soil erosion while increasing the future supply of timber in Georgia.
- Wisconsin Woodlands: Harvesting and Forest Management
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This publication provides a discussion of harvest cuts.
- Smart Growth
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Smart growth--anti-sprawl development that is environmentally, fiscally, and economically smart and includes land-use planning, mixed use development, and transportation efficiency --in the U.S. is supported by the Smart Growth Network's 23 national partner organizations.
- Rx For Wounded Trees
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This booklet offers guidelines on how to care for trees to keep them healthy and to protect them from wounds. It also prescribes ways to prevent, recognize, and minimize damage by decay that most often sets in after tree wounding.
- Measuring Standing Trees and Logs
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Virginia's guide to measuring existing stands of trees and or logs.
- Forest Pest Control Perspective
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Many of the pest problems in forests are present because of past forest practices. Exploitive harvesting has left nonmerchantable trees, brush, and nonstocked lands covered with weeds that prevent regeneration of desired species. Present forest managers are now adopting management methods that minimize the creation of new pest problems.
- Fire in the Wildland-Urban Interface
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Added: January 19, 2008One of the major issues in the southern wildland-urban interface``is the loss of homes to wildfire. While fire control agencies play an``important role in fire prevention and the protection of``homes, there are actions that individual homeowners can``take to reduce the vulnerability of their home to wildfire.
- Auburn University Forestry & Wildlife Sciences Extension
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Website providing technical information for forest landowners and management providers in Alabama. Work in progress--will cover all aspects of forest managment.
- Evaluation and Management of Storm-Damaged Timber
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Homeowners often ask what can be done to save damaged shade and ornamental trees and forest landowners are interested in how to assess the damage to their timber. In addition to the direct damage caused by the wind, insects and fungi often cause additional losses.
- Identified Benefits of Community Trees and Forests
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Added: October 31, 2008Community trees and forests are valuable. To the 75% of the United States population that now live in urban and suburban areas, trees provide many goods and services. Values are realized by the people that own the trees, by people nearby, and by society.
- Invasive Species of Concern in Georgia
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It is provided by The Georgia cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey Program in The Bugwood Network as a means of providing accurate and timely information to Georgia residents about SOD issues and activities in Georgia.
