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- Federal Listing: Candidate Species in Georgia
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Candidate species are identified for listing as a federally protected species under the Endangered Species Act. These species are not currently under federal protection but are being considered for inclusion if the scientific data supports listing. Some o...
- Center for Forest Business, University of Georgia
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The Center for Forest Business, established in 1997, is dedicated to: ````sound forest business principles and practices ``sustainable forest production ``market-based solutions to forest resource problems and opportunities
- 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?
- North Carolina Extension Home Page
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A wealth of information on managing forest in the Southeast
- Leatherback Turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)
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The leatherback lives in the open ocean out to the edge of the continental shelf. Although this species has been found to nest on the Georgia coast, it is most likely to nest farther south in Florida, along the Gulf of Mexico, or in the West Indies.
- 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.
- Anthracnose Disease of Shade Trees
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This publication discusses the Anthracnose disease, its victims, symptoms, and damage.
- California Urban Forests Council
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The mission of the California Urban Forests Council is to be a leader in developing and promoting the proper planning, care, and management, as well as the perpetuation of sustainable urban and community forests that maximize the quality of life for every Californian by:
- Planning for Stewardship: A Desk Guide
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This guide offers assistance to writers of plans and includes instructions, requirements and excerpts from well written plans.
- Locating the Larger Wood-using Companies in Georgia
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Added: October 25, 2008This publication is a map that shows the approximate locations of large, wood using companies in the state of Georgia, and is divided into the types of wood that these companies use.
- Forestry Income Tax Series: Handling Reforestation Expenses
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Forest landowners who spend money on reforestation can take advantage of two federal income tax incentives.
- Forest Stewardship: Watershed Management
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This publication describes practices that a forest landowner can use to maintain or improve water resources in ways that are compatible with other management objectives.
- Ecology and Management of Deer in Oklahoma
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This publication describes the life history and habitat of the deer, along with many management practices.
- Developing a Marketing Plan for Hardwood Bark Landscaping Mulch
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Added: February 12, 2008A viable alternative for dealing with hardwood bark residue is to market the bark as hardwood bark mulch. This paper provides a succinct overview of the hardwood bark mulch industry and discusses considerations of developing a marketing plan for this product.
- The Nature Conservancy Global Invasive Species Team
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Added: July 05, 2008This page includes links to all our resources specific to individual invasive species.
- Wildland-Urban Fire Research Homepage
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Wildland-urban ignition research indicates that a home's characteristics and the area immediately surrounding a home within 100 to 200 feet principally determine a home's ignition potential during a severe wildland fire. I refer to this area that includes a home and its immediate surroundings as the home ignition zone.
- Some Things You Should Know About Wildlife In Alabama
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Because of its geographic location; its high proportion and diversity of forest land; its short but fertile coastline; its abundance and favorable distribution of surface water; its generally productive soils; its mild climate; its diversity of land uses, farm enterprises, and land ownerships; its wide variety and abundance of plants; and other factors, Alabama supports a richness, a variety, and in many places an abundance of valuable wildlife.
- Ohio Society of American Foresters
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(Regional) Ohio Chapter of Society of American Foresters (Professional Society)A Local Forestry Organization
- New Forest Inventory Statistics for Southeast Georgia
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Trees are complex reacting organisms which grow in dynamic, rapidly changing environments. Tree biology must provide for defense, reproduction, growth, and control of resources. This publication provides some simple ways of thinking about trees.
- Iowa Urban and Community Forestry Council
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Added: July 18, 2002Sixty-one percent of the roughly 2.7 million Iowa residents live in urban and community settings. Trees, whether growing along our community's streets, parks, riparian areas or within private properties, benefit climate, energy conservation, economics, social issues, landscape and aesthetics.
- How to Diagnose Black Walnut Damage
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Black walnut trees, like all other plants, are susceptible to a variety of injuries that reduce or destroy their usefulness. The first step in preventing or controlling these injuries is to identify their cause. Most damage is caused by disease, insects, birds, mammals, or weather.
- Georgia State and Private Forestry Fact Sheet
- Forestry Aesthetics Guide
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Added: October 05, 2008This publication is written as a guide for foresters, loggers, landowners, and other resource managers. The practices recommended are designed to be used as voluntary guidelines to improve and enhance the aesthetics of forest operations in the South.
- Aquatic Weed Identification and Control: Frogbit and Watershield BROKEN
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Although neither frogbit nor watershield typically cause problems in Mississippi, it may be necessary at some time to control its growth. This publication provides information on treatments.
- The East Texas Pine Straw web site
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The mission of this site is two-fold. First it serves to enhance public awareness and perception to the uses and benefits of pine straw as a ground cover mulch. Second, the East Texas Pine Straw web site provides educational, networking, and informational opportunities about a promising new enterprise in Texas that can potentially provide supplemental income to Texas forestland owners during the years when no income will be received from a timber harvest.
- Reforestation as an Investment: Does It Pay?
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Many investment analysts consider reforestation one of the best long-term investment opportunities available to landowners.
- Insects and Diseases
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Surveys and current ID problems plaguing the forests.
- Estimating Wind Forces on Tree Crowns
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Wind and gravity are the two primary forces acting upon tree crowns. The structural resistance to these forces by the tree require complex allocation ``processes and dedication of limited resources. Assessing the shear scale of both wind and gravity forces,...
- 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...
- Citrus BMP Implementation in Florida's Gulf Citrus Production Area: Water, Sediment, and Aquatic Weeds
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Added: November 16, 2011In 2005 we conducted a survey in cooperation with the Gulf Citrus Growers Association (GCGA) and FDACS to quantify the current level of BMP implementation and to identify BMPs that might be adopted if a cost-share program was available. This publication describes the survey and discusses the findings regarding water, sediment, and aquatic weed BMPs.
