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- Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries
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The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is charged with the responsibility of managing and protecting Louisiana's abundant natural resources.
- Conserving Energy with Landscaping
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Well-placed plantings can significantly temper the microclimate around a home, resulting in a more comfortable environment and big savings in heating and cooling costs over time.
- Setting up the Books: A Forest Owner's Guide to Capital Accounts
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...and Recordkeeping for Federal Income Tax Purposes
- Wildlife Diversity: The Links of Life
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This book explores the "links of life"--what they need and how they grow.
- Security Considerations for Timberland Owners
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Learn to protect your timberlands from intrusion, production of controlled substances, vandalism, dumping, and timber theft, and also learn about secure timber sale.
- Oxygen Depletion in Ponds
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From June to October, oxygen depletion is the most common cause of fish kills in Georgia ponds. Depletion of oxygen in pond water will occur when conditions create a greater demand for oxygen than the environment can produce. When fish are observed dying
- Smart Communities Network: Land Use Codes/Ordinances
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Community sustainability requires a transition from poorly-managed sprawl to land use planning practices that create and maintain efficient infrastructure, ensure close-knit neighborhoods and sense of community, and preserve natural systems. This section provides an introduction to key planning principles as well as resources for strategies, tools, and civic participation to help your community with sustainable land use planning.
- Southern Pine Beetle
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Added: September 25, 2003Southern pine beetle (SPB) is a serious pest of yellow pines, including loblolly, shortleaf and Virginia pines.
- Construction Damage Assessments: Trees and Sites
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Added: November 05, 2008A key component in assessing development impacts on trees is the systematic evaluation of damage. Many types of damage occur repeatedly over a site, and from site to site. This constant and repetitive damage comes from fundamental anti-tree and tree-illiterate activities. Under scrutiny of a systematic assessment, these patterned damage forms can be prevented or minimized. Some types of damage (one-time, one-spot, chance occurrences) can be assessed but are difficult to prevent. By attempting to categorize damage, patterns can be recognized and steps taken to minimize tree injury and site degradation. Please note that many development activities and the continued presence of good tree quality are mutually exclusive (spacially and temporally). Decisions must be made early in the planning process to maintain tree quality of life and minimize injury.
- 4-H Project Record: Wetlands
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Wetlands 4-H Project Record (4H MER 70) is a marine 4-H project record in environmental education for 4-H members age 10 and up. This record book is used in conjunction with the Wetlands 4-H Project Manual (4H MEM 70). The activities in this book help youth to learn and record the types of swamps in Florida and which plants and animals live in this environment.
- Seasoning to Prevent Defects in Green Wood
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Added: November 05, 2008This publication provides information on some of problems and basic principles involved in seasoning lumber, wood disks and other small pieces of wood. It is intended to help individuals who would like to season small quantities of wood inexpensively and without sacrificing quality. Small mill owners may also find this information useful in the manufacture of dried wood products.
- Stacking Lumber for Drying
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A critical step in drying hardwood lumber is to stack it correctly and as soon as possible after it is sawed.
- Shiitake Mushroom Production on Logs
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A complete step-by-step guide to production of shiitake mushrooms.
- Pesticide Application Best Management Practices for the Citrus Grove Worker
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details different pest control methods, safety, and application processes and tips
- Urban Forestry Benefits and Costs
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Urban forests are all the trees and other vegetation that grow in places where people live, work and play, from small communities in rural areas to large metropolitan cities. This includes trees on public and private land, along streets, in residential areas, parks and commercial developments, and in other locations within a community.
- Timber Sales for Landowners
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The purpose of this publication is to guide the landowner through the steps to ensure receiving a fair price, encontering no legal difficulties, avoiding damage to the environment or to the future stand, and conducting the timber sale as smoothly as possible.
- Tennessee Urban Forestry Council
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The Tennessee Urban Forestry Council, established in 1991, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to public awareness, understanding and improving Tennessee's urban forests. The Council serves as a resource, catalyst and liaison concerning urban forestry issues within the state, region and nation.
- Stem Strength with Closed / Centered Cavity
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Added: October 31, 2008The structural integrity of tree stems, roots and branches are dependent upon a number of very conservative allocation and building processes. Mechanical injuries, growth faults, and decay processes all significantly impact how dynamic loads are resisted within the tree. One form of tree response to decay and mechanical load changes is a boundary setting process which under some conditions lead to a cavity. Hollow trees can be found everywhere tree-forms exist.
- Relict Trillium (Trillium reliquum)
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Perennial wildflower with three elliptical, pointed leaves about 5 - 13 centimeters (2 - 5 in) long, each mottled in several shades of green. Grows from a reclining stem about 5 - 25 centimeters (2 - 10 in) long. Each leaf has a silver streak.
- Northeast Center for Urban and Community Forestry
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The Georgia Urban Forest Council is a non-profit organization offering educational and other opportunities to promote excellent community forestry policies, programs and practices throughout Georgia.
- Mature Tree Shapes of Forest Tree Nursery Seedlings
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Mature Tree Shapes of South Carolina Forestry Commission's Forest Tree Nursery Seedlings
- Manage Your CRP Pine Plantations for Wildlife
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If you manage your CRP pines for wildlife, you will, in general, have better hunting and more of certain kinds of wildlife than if you manage it exclusively for timber.
- Create A Certified Wildlife Habitat
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Go out in your backyard and look around! Watch the butterflies and hummingbirds dance in search of nectar. Listen to the trill of songbirds. Hear the plop of a frog jumping into a pond. This isn't your yard, you say? It could be. It's not hard, and it doesn't matter where you live or how much space you have.
- American Forests: Urban Forests - Trees Working Where People Do
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Added: July 18, 2008As our cities expand and our population moves to increasingly urbanized areas, American Forests recognizes the ecological value of urban trees as an important conservation issue. Though it is inherently understood that trees improve our environment, until recently it was difficult to quantify these effects.
- Life in the Sea Member Manual
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Life in the Sea Member Manual (4H MEM 30) is a project guide is for 4-H members ages 10 and up. 4-H'ers will learn about dolphins, manatees, seals and sea lions, penguins, treasures from the sea, Caribbean / Atlantic coast tide pool, and coral reefs. In addition to this project guide 4-H'ers can complete the accompanying record book (4H MER 02).
- Tree Crops for Marginal Farmland: Christmas Trees With A Financial Analysis
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This publication describes the most effective practices used to grow Christmas trees in the southern United States and the cost of those practices. It includes a financial analysis with typical costs and expected returns.
- Pesticide Safety and Personal Protective Equipment for Citrus Grove Workers
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Details basic safety precautions for those working with pesticides.
- Manchester State Forest
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If you visit Manchester State Forest in the early spring you'll find pockets of flowering mountain laurel, red cedar draped with Spanish moss, and oaks growing in profusion among the dogwoods and longleaf pines. This kind of plant mix is unique in the state. Located in Sumter County, on the fall line between South Carolina's piedmont and coastal plain, Manchester State Forest consists of more than seventeen thousand acres of ridges, sand hills, hardwood bottoms, bays, and swampland
- Killing Deer in the Suburbs
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A friend called recently to ask about deer repellents. Are there chemicals you can apply to stop deer from browsing your plans/ Some of his clients had poor results. ``Do those things really work?'' he asked.
- Aquatic Weed Identification and Control: Water Pennywort and Mosquito Fern BROKEN
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This publication provides information on biological and chemical treatments for water pennywort and mosquito fern.
