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- Understanding Water Quality Parameters for Citrus Irrigation and Drainage Systems
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Explains basic water management knowledge, such as how to obtain a water sample, units used in water analysis, and water quality parameters
- What is Forest Fragmentation and Why is it Important?
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Forest fragmentation occurs when large, continuous forests are divided into smaller blocks, either by roads, clearing for agriculture, urbanization, or other human development. Ornithologists suspect that fragmentation harms many woodland birds by increasing their susceptibility to predation and nest parasitism.
- Income Taxes and Private Forest Landowners
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This paper focuses on income tax concerns, although landowner decisions may also be influenced by property and sales taxes. It is divided into three major sections that address recordkeeping, land acquisition and timber sales, and tax requirements for other forest management activities.
- A Simple Timber Cruising Template
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Added: March 18, 2008Here is a handy template that can help you inventory your forest. The spreadsheet was designed by forester Bruce Springer and is a quick and easy way to generate general forest inventory data. It was created with simplicity in mind and can be used by either a tree owner or a forester.
- Managing Water on Roads, Skid Trails, and Landings
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Water moving over forest roads, skid trails, and landings causes erosion. Sediment that reaches water bodies can hurt aquatic organisms. Soil also makes water appear muddy and can carry in nutrients and chemicals. Water diversion devices can reduce erosion. In fact, by controlling water speed and volume on the top one-third of the road, erosion can be reduced by more than 65 percent.
- Forest Roads
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A well-planned and constructed forest road system is important for the management of your forest, and is a vital link between people and the forest.
- Controlling Pocket Gophers BROKEN
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Gopher populations can be reduced or eliminated over a considerable area with persistent control efforts. Control is best conducted when gophers are most active near the surface, usually in the spring and fall.
- 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.
- Use of Sterile Grass Carp to Control Aquatic Weeds
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Added: October 20, 2008Aquatic weeds are a serious problem for pond owners throughout Georgia. They restrict access to fishing areas, reduce fish harvest and decrease the usefulness, attractiveness and value of a pond. Herbicides, mechanical removal, water level changes, dyes, fertilization, proper pond construction, pond renovation and biological methods successfully control unwanted aquatic weed growth. The physical and chemical characteristics of the pond and the pond owner's objectives dictate which method is most appropriate. Pond owners are familiar with the traditional methods of aquatic weed control but not with the recently available option of biological control by using sterile triploid grass carp.
- Factors Affecting Fertilizer Uptake
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There are numerous factors that affect how easily and well trees and shrubs will take up fertilizers. The most important of these is fertilizer form.
- Wood Identification for Hardwood and Softwood Species Native to Tennessee
- Sampling and Measuring Timber in the Private Woodland
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Added: March 22, 2008This publication presents guidelines for sampling and measuring trees in a woodland. It will help you understand and implement proper procedures for sampling and measuring trees.
- Global Change
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It refers to large-scale changes in Earth's biological, geological, hydrological, and atmospheric systems. Agriculture is vulnerable to these environmental changes. Successfully adapting to change depends upon a quantitative and predictive understanding of the ways that agriculture and food supplies may be affected by climate change, rising atmospheric carbon dioxide and ozone levels, and increased UV-B radiation
- Urban Trees for Wildlife
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Viewing wildlife on your property is educational and``fun.The kinds and numbers of wildlife that visit your back-``yard regularly depends on your location,size of area,vari-``ety of vegetation and amount f habitat development.Clatterbuck
- Economics of Agroforestry
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This article discusses the economic benefits and criticisms of agroforestry.
- Arboriculture Association
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The Arboriculture Association seeks to advance the science of arboriculture for the public benefit.
- Harbison Environmental Education Forest
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Harbison Environmental Education Forest's emphasis is on natural resource education, providing demonstrations of forestry practices as well as recreation. Visitors are encouraged to come, enjoy, and even volunteer to help with the development of this valuable urban forest.
- West Virginia's Managed Timberland Tax Incentive Program
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Recognizing the impact of forestry as a renewable natural resource on West Virginia's economy, the state has allowed it to be appraised under the Managed Timberland Program, which serves as a tax incentive for owners of properly managed property.
- 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.
- Farmstead Windbreaks: Planning
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Windbreaks can slow, direct, and block winter winds, resulting in many benefits to the landowner. A windbreak is permanent, so think and plan carefully before planting trees or shrubs.
- 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.
- Habitat Appraisal Guide for Bobwhite Quail
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This appraisal guide provides a means to systematically evaluate the suitability of prairie, shrubland, or forest for bobwhite quail.
- Forest Pests of North America: Integrated Pest Management CD
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Added: April 02, 2003Three Volume Set - 100 images per Volume in Kodak Photo CD format. One hundred and fifty forest disease and one hundred and fifty forest insect images.
- Using Local Woodlot Lumber
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Choosing the right wood.
- A Murderer Visits the Wild Garden
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On May 13 a mystery creature broke into Leslie Sprando's duck pen. The animal had apparently climbed up the door and had forced its way in where the door was loose at the top.
- Why Plant A Windbreak?
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This publication discusses how to effectively design a windbreak.
- Verticillium Wilt of Shade Trees
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Verticillium wilt is a serious vascular wilt disease that affects a broad array of shade tree species. This publication describes the symptoms of this disease, along with methods of controlling it.
- Tree Selection for Drought Resistance
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Added: October 20, 2008A fact of life in the Southeast is the mid-summer drought. In recent years drought periods have ventured into spring and fall. Drought has damaged many trees and landscapes. One means of drought-proofing your landscape is selection of drought resistant plants. No landscape can be made completely free of drought problems even under intensive irrigation. With more water shortages and drought periods ahead, planting trees and other plants that are drought resistant can be beneficial.
- New Papers on Nitrogen Fertilization of Trees: A Selected Bibliography
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Added: October 20, 2008Reference List.
- Native tress and shrubs
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0ver 100 native trees and shrubs of the south east; growing instructions and images.
