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- Your Home in the Line of Fire
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Precautions you can take to protect your home.
- Drying Softwoods for Value Added Markets
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There is a great opportunity for softwood mills to enter into the value added markets arena, including lumber used for moulding, doors, windows, and furniture. However, to be successful in this market, quality drying is a prerequisite. In this paper, suggestions on how to select a proper target moisture content, conventional temperature schedules for quality drying, equalizing for a uniform final moisture content, and conditioning for stress relief will be discussed.
- Urban Forestry
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What is an urban forest? It is all of the trees and other vegetation in and around a town, village or city. Traditionally it has referred to tree-lined streets, but an urban forest also includes trees in home landscapes, schoolyards, parks, riverbanks, cemeteries, utility rights-of-way, adjacent woodlands and anywhere else trees can grow.
- Tax Tips for Forest Landowners for the 1997 Tax Year
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The long term capital gains rate has been reduced significantly--if you sold your timber at the right time and you met the correct holding period requirements. These new rules, plus the information that follows, are some things to keep in mind.
- Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees
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Trees are the basic element for any landscape plan. They set the stage for the entire home grounds design. The type used and their location determine to a great extent what other plantings are appropriate.
- Recreational Opportunities on CRP Lands
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consumptive enterprises, non-consumptive enterprises, hunting leases, shooting preserves, fee fishing, sporting clays, photography, home range, wildlife, hiking, bird watching
- PLANTS National Database
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The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.
- NUCFAC -- National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council
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The National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council is an organization that supports education, projects, and groups related to urban and community forestry. We seek to establish sustainable urban forests for all communities. Explore this site to find out more!
- Measuring Standing Trees
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Woodland owners often need to measure the merchantable board foot content (termed "volume") of certain trees in their woodland. This publication teaches you how.
- Hawksbill Turtle (Eretmochlys imbricata)
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The hawksbill turtle's shell is covered with glossy brown and tan overlapping scutes, or horny plates. It reaches 2 feet (65 cm) long and weighs an average of 90 pounds (40 kg). The scales of the hawksbill were once used to make combs and curious.
- Florida Torreya (Torreya taxifolia)
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Small to medium-sized evergreen tree with a pungent, aromatic odor. Horizontal and spreading branches have drooping tips. Mature height is 10.6 meters (35 ft) and mature diameter is 18 centimeters (1.5 ft). Needles are stiff, pointed, about 2.5 - 4 centim...
- 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.
- Compaction Tolerant Trees
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Added: November 05, 2008Soil compaction is a complex set of physical, chemical, and biological constraints on tree growth. Principle components leading to limited growth are the loss of aeration pore space, poor gas exchange with the atmosphere, lack of tree available water, and mechanical impedance of root growth. There are significant genetic differences between tree species for tolerating various levels of soil compaction.
- Managing Trees and Turfgrasses
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Trees and turfgrasses commonly share the same landscape. Both require space, light, water, air, essential nutrients, and the appropriate temperature for growth, but there is often a stuggle to maintian quality turf under healthy trees.
- Tree Heights & Force of Fall
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Trees represent large amounts of potential energy standing above the ground. When trees fall, the force with which they hit the ground surface is proportional to their height to the fifth power.
- Urban Forest Ecosystems Institute
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The Urban Forest Ecosystems Institute (UFEI) was developed by the Natural Resources Management Department faculty to address the increasing need for improved management of the urban forests in California.
- Trees for Poorly Drained Soils in the Landscape
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This publication discusses the causes of poor soil drainage,ways of testing and repairing your individual soil, and provides a table of trees that are best able to tolerate poorly drained sites.
- Ecology Explorers
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Added: July 29, 2008Most people in the US live in cities but may not understand the ecological processes going on around them. People influence ecological conditions and at the same time, we are influenced by those conditions. As an Ecology Explorer, you will be studying your schoolyard (or backyard) as part of an urban ecosystem.
- Early Planting and Care for Planted Seedlings
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Once you have plated your seedlings, what next? This Oklahoma Extension publication will give you a few pointers.
- Wind and Trees: Surveys of Tree Damage in the Florida Panhandle...
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This circular summarizes the results of two surveys about tree damage across the Florida Panhandle, resulting from Hurricanes Erin and Opal, and ranks the wind resistance of the North Florida tree species in particular communities.
- The Southern Pine Beetle, Dendroctonus frontalis
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The southern pine beetle (SPB), Dendroctonus frontalis Zimmermann, is the most destructive insect pest of pine in the southern United States. A recent historical review estimated that SPB caused $900 million of damage to pine forests from 1960 through 1990
- Sustainable Forests Partnership
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The Sustainable Forestry Partnership's mission is to document and promote innovation in sustainable forestry and integrate this innovation broadly into both policy and practice.
- Autumn Colors - How Leaves Change Color
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The "Indian summer" days of autumn, when the days are clear and sunny and the nights cool and crisp, provide an almost irresistible lure to those who enjoy the outdoors. This type of weather is also the most favorable for a spectacular show of autumn colors, making this season of the year still more delightful.
- Timber Stand Improvement
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Timber stand improvement practices are needed to remove trees of undesirable form, quality, condition, growth rate, or species. Removal of poor trees will stimulate the growth of better trees and will increase profits to private, non-industrial forestland owners.
- Hairy Rattleweed (Baptisia arachnifera)
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Perennial, multi-branched about 50-80 centimeters (20-32 in) tall. Reddish-brown stem is covered by dense silvery-white hairs. Leathery leaves are nearly round or heart-shaped, alternate, 3-8 centimeters (1.2-3.2 in) long.
- Forest Health Fundamentals
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discusses what constitutes 'forest health' and the application of this term to Florida's forests
- Selected Literature: Nitrogen and Tree Growth
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Nitrogen availability for tree health maintenance and growth is one of the most constraining essential element problems faced by shade and street trees. Effective nitrogen use by trees involves a complex set of interwoven events, processes, and organisms.
- The State of America's Forests
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The Society of American Foresters has published a comprehensive, peer-reviewed report on the status of America's forestland. This 68-page report outlines the latest facts and figures in easy to read graphs, charts, tables, and supporting commentary. The State of America's Forests is the most definitive, one-source compilation of credible forestry facts touting more than 50 sources and peer-review by academia, non-governmental organizations, and the USDA Forest Service.
- Sources and uses of wood for energy
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Contemporary concepts in technology and policy: Proceedings, International symposium; Energy options for the year 2000
- Shortnose Sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum)
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The shortnose sturgeon is brown to gray or black on the back, paling to gold or yellow on the sides and to white under-neath. In the Southeast, adults are commonly 16 to 38 inches long (38 - 96 cm) and weigh 8 to 15 pounds (3.6 - 6.75 kg). Small sturgeon
