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- Calibrating Hand-Held and Backpack Sprayers for Applying Pesticides
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This article is a fantastic guide for using hand-held backpack sprayers whics are inexpensive tools used to apply pesticides on small acreage.
- Georgia's Wetlands: 200 Years of Change
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The ecological, biological and social values of wetlands are being altered rapidly in today's world. Over the past two centuries wetlands have been changed greatly. Through development and land-use changes, wetlands will continue to be altered. Large numb...
- Walnut Agroforestry
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Agroforestry provides black walnut growers with the opportunity to develop a portfolio of short- and long-term investments, thus allowing for some risk spreading through diversification. Agroforestry also provides a cost-effective way to remove erodible land from crop production over an extended time period.
- Careers in Arboriculture
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The skills of the professional arborist are more valuable than ever because of the increased recognition of the environmental, economic, and social benefits of trees.
- Insect Defoliators of Missouri Trees: Colony Feeders
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All parts of a tree are susceptible to insect attack; there are leaf feeders, sap feeders, and bud, twig, branch and stem borers. The most noticeable type of tree injury is foliage consumption. This article discusses some of the common "colony feeding" pests of Missouri.
- Evaluating High-Graded Hardwood Stands
- Management of Farm Fish Ponds in Tennessee
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Added: February 16, 2008This bulletin provides management information to help pond owners produce the best fishing possible through good management.
- Landscaping for Less in the Landfill
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Gardeners can plan their landscapes to produce less yard waste and use what is produced around their homes to enhance yards, gardens, and soil. This publication provides steps that gardeners can take to effectively reduce the amount of solid waste in landfills.
- Forestry in Florida's Counties
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Added: February 07, 2008This website contains valuable information by county on the importance of forestry and wood products in Florida.
- Pond Construction: Some Practical Considerations
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This article is designed to provide basic information needed to design and construct a multiple-use farm pond in Virginia.
- Citrus Tree Stresses: Effects on Growth and Yield
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Added: November 17, 2011The objectives of this document are to: a)Explain how citrus trees respond to changes in availability of water and nutrients; b)Discuss plant-stress situations and their effects on citrus growth and productivity; and c)Discuss the balance between roots and shoots. The target audience for this document dealing with citrus responses to drought conditions includes: Certified Crop Advisers, citrus producers, agrochemical and equipment industry representatives, and other parties interested in citrus management practices.
- Economic Incentives for Natural Regeneration
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Enhancing the growth of existing timber stands, insuring adequate regeneration following harvest, plus afforestation of marginal rowcrop land, are important forest management activities that southern timber producers can implement to increase total timber supply and profits.
- A Series of Workshops & Short-Courses for Educators
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The Baltimore Ecosystem Study project offers a series of workshops and short courses - Investigating Urban Ecosystems - to help teachers incorporate student research in the local environment into their teaching. These programs can be taken by any teacher, and stipends often can be arranged with the teachers' school or school district.
- Maintaining Tree/Turfgrass Associations: A Plant Health Care Approach
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The common association of trees and turf in landscapes is plagued by competition for scarce water, nutrient, and sunlight resources. In the following article you will find an explanation of the problems that arise from this incompatibility and how to overcome them to achieve healthy, attractive trees and turfgrass.
- International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
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The International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies was founded in 1902 as a quasi-governmental organization of public agencies charged with the protection and management of North America's fish and wildlife resources. The Association's governmental members include the fish and wildlife agencies of the states, provinces, and federal governments of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
- Best Management Practices and Road Building
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This publication discusses Best Management Practices that can be used to help locate and construct road systems.
- Citrus Culture In The Home Landscape
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Focusing on citrus in a private yard setting, the publication details citrus varieties, management, and care
- North Carolina Project WET
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Project WET (Water Education for Teachers) is an interdisciplinary water education program intended to supplement a school's existing curriculum.
- Cage Culture: Site Selection and Water Quality BROKEN
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Ponds are not always suitable for cage culture of fish. Before venturing into cage culture make sure your pond will support the increased biological load that cage culture will induce on its system.
- Forest Herbicide Safety: Environmental Concerns and Proper Handling
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The increasing use of herbicides in forests and other agricultural areas has caused concerns about the damage these compounds can do to humans and to the environment. This publication presents suggestions on environmental safety and on proper procedures for handling, storing, transporting, and applying herbicides.
- Engraver Beetle (Not Southern Pine Beetle) Activity on the Increase in East Texas
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If the extreme fire danger caused by the 1998 drought isn't causing enough concern, now pine bark beetle activity is beginning to appear.
- Risk Assessment for Burned Timber: Guidelines for Landowners
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General Guidelines for Risk Assessment
- Determining the Profitability of Timber Stand Improvement Investments
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You can increase the financial return from a tract (stand) of Missouri forest land by improving tree quality and woodland composition. Timber Stand Improvement (TSI) includes a broad range of practices: site preparation, thinning, release, pruning, and vine and weed removal.
- Christmas Tree Genetics
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Added: June 22, 2008Recently, tree improvement programs for species important to North Carolina's Christmas tree industry have been intitiated. Each of these program is uniquely tailored to the individual species according to their biologic constraints and importance to the state's industry.
- Sected Practices and Plantings for Wildlife
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Wildlife, game and non-game, has certain basic requirements. Three of the most important are food, water, and shelter. Changing wildlife numbers in an area is primarily a matter of altering the amount of food, water, or shelter.
- Urban Ecosystems
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The fact is, in the world that we've created for ourselves, cities occupy pivotal positions, for better or worse, in the patterns of global ecology. This becomes clear when we put aside our standard images of cities and consider their ecological functions.
- Cross-Pollination Planting Plans
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details different plans and charts for the well-being of cross-pollinated plants
