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- Prescribed Burning for Timber and Wildlife
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This publication examines how various species benefit from prescribed burning.
- Methods for Estimating Timber Volume and Value of Pine Trees
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To judge the value of trees, either as pulpwood or as small sawtimber, you need to be able to estimate tree volumes. This publication explains estimating methods that can help you make harvesting and marketing decisions. Note, however, that the methods explained here apply only to sawtimber and pulpwood, and not to other products, such as poles and pilings.
- Managing Your Land for Wildlife
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Whether you manage a full-time cropping operation or maintain a hobby farm, modest landscape and production-related changeslike those made by Minnesota landowners profiled in this publicationcan provide wildlife food and cover.
- Lake States Woodlands: Measuring Trees and Estimating Volume
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Diameter at breast height (DBH) is the single most important tree measurement when cruising (inventorying) timber stands to determine value. Woodland owners and managers use DBH for estimating the tree's volume and weight, for assessing stand density, for determining merchantability, and for estimating tree height.
- KY Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources
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KENTUCKY SPORTSMEN AND WOMEN PAY FOR CONSERVATION````The Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources is funded through the sale of hunting and fishing licenses. It receives no general fund tax dollars.
- Kentucky Watershed Management
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This website answers all of the who, what, where, how, and why watershed management questions.
- Introduction to the Snakes of Oklahoma
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This fact sheet introduces you to the biology of some of the snakes of Oklahoma and will provide a list of all known species in the state.
- Hurricanes, Trees and Forests: A Selected Bibliography
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Hurricanes and trees do not mix well. This publication cites recent publications and journal articles which deal with various aspects of hurricane impacts on trees and forests. This not a comprehensive review but selected to provide a broad view of work a...
- GIS Data Depot
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Added: February 09, 2007GIS Data Depot provides a collection of free GIS data among many other useful resources like news, helpful guides and much more.
- Frequently Asked Questions About Timber Casualty Losses
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Generally this is a loss caused by a sudden, unexpected, and unusual event from natural or other external forces. It``is not a gradual or progressive loss, such as death caused by periods of low rainfall or natural competition. Examples``are losses from hurricanes, tornados, floods, plane crashes, wildfires, hail, ice storms, theft, etc.
- Forestry Situation and Outlook with Implications for Agriculture, 1998
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Added: October 20, 2008It is the objective that through this paper agricultural economists and others working in the forestry area will have the resource materials necessary to answer most questions concerning the major issues of the forestry situation and outlook in the United...
- Firewood for Home Heating
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The comfort of a wood fire on a cold night; the feeling of self-reliance that comes with cutting, splitting, and stacking a cord of wood; and a reduced conventional fuel bill have all been experienced by thousands of Virginia wood burners.
- Eastern Gray Squirrel
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Added: September 17, 2008Management guide.
- CRP Alternative: Christmas Tree Production
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Christmas tree production can be a profitable option for CRP land. This publication examines the costs to consider when producing Christmas trees.
- Coyote Control in the Eastern United States BROKEN
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Coyote Control in the Eastern United States
- Conservation Easements
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An introduction to conservation easements.
- 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.
- 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!
- Biology and host associations of redbay ambrosia beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), exotic vector of laurel wilt killing redbay trees
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The redbay ambrosia beetle and its fungal symbiont, Rafaelea sp., are new introductions to the southeastern United States responsible for the wilt of mature redbay, Persea borbonia (L) Spreng., trees. In 2006 and 2007, we investigated the seasonal flight activity of X. glubratus, its host associations, and population levels at eight locations in South Carolina and Georgia where infestations ranged from very recent to at least several years old.
- Anthracnose - A Fungal Disease of Shade Trees
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Anthracnose is a name for a group of diseases caused by several closely related fungi that attack many of our finest shade trees. This publication describes common anthracnose fungus, its symptoms, and methods of controlling it.
- American Ginseng Production in Woodlots
- A Technical Guide to Urban and Community Forestry
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The Technical Guide to Urban Forestry was produced to help communities develop, manage and protect their urban forest resources. The purpose of this publication is to provide technical information about growing trees in the relatively adverse urban environment.
- Pesticides and Aquatic Animals: A Guide to Reducing Impacts on Aquatic Systems
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The purpose of this publication is to serve as a general guide for those who may use pesticides in or around natural wetlands, lakes, ponds, rivers, and streams. In this publication, information is provided about the toxicity and safe use of pesticides that have the potential to enter aquatic systems.
- Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
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State Game & Fish agency for Alabama
- The Southern Pine Beetle
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This publication helps landowners by explaining the symptoms of a Southern Pine Beetle attack, what to do about it, and how to prevent it.
- 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...
- Even and Un-Even Forest Management (PDF)
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An explanation of two basic forest management regimes.
- Flathead Borers on Hardwoods
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Flatheaded borers are some of the most common of wood borer in the United States. They occur throughout the United States and Canada. There are more than 150 species and varieties of flatheaded borers east of the Mississippi.
- Waste Utilization in Forest Lands of Florida
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Research from forest lands in Florida shows that, in general, waste materials can be used to improve yields with few ecological consequences or human health hazards, as long as basic precautions are taken to insure that the proper soil types and tree species have been selected for the particular type of waste.
- Fertilizer Choices
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There are a large number of fertilizers available today. Sometimes it is difficult to choose what type of fertilizer to use, what formulation should be used, and how it should be applied. The number of alternatives are confusing.
