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- Southern Pine Beetle
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Added: April 06, 2000Using this directory will enable you to become``better informed, better educated, and better equipped through the latest information on SPB biology, management and research.
- South Carolina Forestry Commission Cost Share Programs of South Carolina
- Selling Walnut Timber
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Black walnut requires and deserves attention if maximum returns are to be earned. For many woodland owners, the opportunity to sell timber comes only once or twice during a lifetime. For those fortunate enough to own a well-managed woodland, timber can be harvested periodically. In either case, the success or failure of a timber sale usually will depend on the attitude and knowledge of the seller.
- Rosette Bud Mite On Fraser Fir
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Rosette buds affect the quality of Fraser fir grown for Christmas trees. The more rosette buds that are on a tree and the more years the tree has rosette buds, the more the quality is affected.
- Quality Control for Edge Glued Panel Manufacturing
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Edge glued lumber panels are an important component of many high quality furniture designs. The purpose of this report is to discuss propermanufacturing techniques necessary for quality panels.
- Prescribed Fire
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This site is designed to provide various links on prescribed burning, fire, and forest protection.
- Mechanical Tree Planters
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Mechanical tree planters can speed seedling tree planting where several thousand trees are involved and where the terrain is not too steep nor too rough for mechanized equipment.
- Green Pitcherplant (Sarracenia oreophila)
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Perennial, insect-trapping wetland plant. Leaves are spreading, flattened, sickle- shaped, about 5 - 15 centimeters (2 - 6 in) long and 1 - 2 centimeters (0.4 - 0.8 in) wide. Basal leaves arch away from the base. Pitcher leaves are hollow tubes.
- Forest Stewardship: Understanding and Conserving Biological Wealth in Our Forests
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Added: March 20, 2008This bulletin focuses on how our forests contribute to our biological wealth, why we need to conserve natural diversity, and how landowners, through proper use of stewarship, can help protect this biological treasure for future generations.
- Fire in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Defensible Space
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The purpose of this report is to provide information on the properties of some common California landscaping plants that can be used to determine how a particular plant will behave when burned. It is a referenced database that compiles the information found in available lists and supplements information on plant characteristics that are known to affect fire performance.
- Defining Soil Compaction: Sites & Trees
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Added: November 05, 2008The health and structure of trees are reflections of soil health. The ecological processes which govern tree survival and growth are concentrated around the soil/root interface. As soils, and associated resources change, tree systems must change to effectively utilize and tolerate changing resources quantities and qualities, as well as the physical space available. Soil compaction is a major tree-limiting feature of community forest managers and arborists.
- Concerning Pen-Raised Quail
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Stocking pen-raised bobwhites to increase breeding populations of quail is generally considered unjustified by most biologists due to low survival rates, and has been implicated in the decline of native quail populations because of the potential for disease introduction, food and/or mate competition, displacement of wild quail, increasing wild quail mortality, and dilution of the native gene pool or reduction of brood rearing ability through cross-breeding.
- Collecting Insects Pinning and Labeling
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This publication describes ways of pinning and labeling various insects for display.
- Climate Change Kids Site
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Have some fun and learn about global warming when you play hangman, concentration or checkers. Then, give the crossword puzzle and word search a try!
- Autumn Forest and Landscape Color
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It is not necessarily the single tree and its colored leaves we most appreciate. As annual flowers may be massed together to yield a spectacular color show, trees can be seen as massed across a landscape in fall. The large swathes of tree colors blanke...
- Aquatic Weed Identification and Control BROKEN
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Added: October 05, 2008This publication provides information on controlling various types of algae.
- American Ginseng Production in Woodlots
- 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.
- 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.
- Trout Unlimited
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Trout Unlimted's mission is to conserve, protect and restore North America's trout and salmon fisheries and their watersheds.
- Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda) and Drought: A Selected Bibliography
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Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) is critical to timber markets and to landscapes. Seasonal water shortages impact loblolly in a variety of ways. As part of tree health care and drought management, the following publications are listed to facilitate informat...
- Developing Land in Florida with Fire in Mind
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Because fire is an essential ingredient in maintaining Florida's natural landscapes, it is critical to design developments that enable prescribed burning of natural areas while protecting the community from wildfire.
- 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.
- Understanding Forest Certification
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Added: January 05, 2008 - Trees and Humankind: Cultural and Psychological Bindings
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Added: October 20, 2008To effectively educate people about trees and forests, natural resource managers must understand the beliefs and perceptions concerning trees and forests within different communities and cultures. The reverence and adoration of trees has a strong psychological and social foundation in most human cultures. The influence of trees and forests on cultural development can better prepare natural resource mangers to understand public and private attitudes and actions toward community trees and forests. Community natural resource management requires a heightened awareness of cultural contexts and psychological needs. Clearly understanding the human--tree relationship is essential for education, motivation, and social acceptance of community natural resource management messages. What has been the tie that binds humans and trees together?
- Safe Tree Harvesting
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This publication covers the fundamentals of safe tree harvesting with a chain saw.
- Planting Techniques For Trees and Shrubs
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A properly planted tree or shrub will be more tolerant of adverse conditions and require much less management than one planted incorrectly. Planting technique impacts water quality as it minimizes water, fertilizer and pesticide use.
- Pest Review Bibliography for Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda)
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The following research literature citations are from approximately the last 15 years. These are selected citations concerning arthropods, diseases, nematodes, and general pests of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda).
- North Carolina Extension Home Page
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A wealth of information on managing forest in the Southeast
- Lure Butterfly Larvae to the Garden
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Butterflies don't live on flowers alone. If you're a butterfly gardener you have no doubt heard the advice to plant ``larval food plants'' so your butterflies can lay eggs on them.
