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- Thinning Pine Stands for Top Returns
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It generally takes from 30 to 40 years to grow a stand of pine sawtimber to economic maturity. However, it is usually necessary to cut some of the trees before the stand reaches maturity. Cuttings made in immature stands to stimulate the growth of the remaining trees and thereby improve the yield of the stand are called thinnings.
- The Response of Ohio's Native and Naturalized Trees to Construction Activity
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The American public generally has a love affair with trees. One manifestation of that love affair is the willingness of homeowners to pay 10 to 30 percent more for similar sized, wooded lots in the same subdivision. The assumption by the general public is that trees are trees. Surprise, surprise! Various trees species respond differently to construction.
- The Economics of Timber Stand Improvement
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Timber stand improvement (TSI) is a conscious woodland management investment which encompasses a number of different silvicultural treatments. TSI includes improvement cutting, cleaning, weeding, and liberation cutting and thinning.
- 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.
- Soil Compaction Impacts on Tree Roots
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Added: October 31, 2008Compaction impacts trees in many ways. Generally, compaction associated physiological dysfunctions cause systemic damage and decline, as well as failures in dealing with additional environ- mental changes. Physical / mechanical constraints negatively modify responses in the tree resulting in inefficient use of essential resources. The symptoms we see in trees under compacted soil conditions have causes stemming from disruptions of the internal sense, communication, and response process.
- Selecting Preservative Treated Wood
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This bulletin will provide the purchaser of treated wood with the information necessary to select treated wood with a special emphasis on landscape timbers.
- 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.
- Rx For Wounded Trees
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This booklet offers guidelines on how to care for trees to keep them healthy and to protect them from wounds. It also prescribes ways to prevent, recognize, and minimize damage by decay that most often sets in after tree wounding.
- Questions About Forestry and Forestland? Ask a Consulting Forester
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This article explains the role of a consulting forester in assisting, advising, and informing a landowner about his forestland.
- Planting Trees in Designed and Built Community Landscapes
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Trees create green spaces in communities. The right trees in the right places benefit you, your home, and your community now and in the future. It is essential to select living trees to create a sense of place within communities.
- Options for Disposing of Leaves
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This publication discusses options that are available to homeowners to dispose of their leaves.
- Marketing for Wood Products Companies
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Marketing is a primary determinant of company success. Only by properly identifying what customers want and need on a continual basis, can wood products firms be successful. Competition will only increase in the years ahead. Those companies that have a good understanding of markets and implement a well thought out marketing program to meet their needs will have an advantage in the 21st Century.
- Landscape Plants for Georgia
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Landscape Plants for Georgia is an effort to compile a list of good plants organized into various sizes and groups. It does not list all available plant materials but rather brings together the best possible groupings according to the principles and requirements of good landscape design and plant maintenance. It is not possible to offer pictures of the plants. Many publications, books and web sites, however, have good plant pictures.
- ESRI GIS and Mapping Software
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Added: February 22, 2008Designer and distributor of GIS software, ArcView and ArcInfo.
- 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.
- Contract Important in Timber Sales
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It is important for the landowner to understand what he or she needs and where to obtain assistance. A written contract is important in ensuring that the seller and the buyer both perform all expected tasks.
- Best Management Practices for Braided Stream Systems: A Supplement to the 1994 BMP Manual
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Added: November 15, 2000Best Management Practices for ``Braided Stream Systems: ``A Supplement to the 1994 BMP Manual
- Assistance With Bobwhite Quail Management On Private Land
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Although proper quail management usually involves a considerable amount of work, and habitat manipulation must be conducted at least annually in most cases, the rewards of a successful program are well worth the efforts.
- Root Growth Requirements and Limitations
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Added: October 31, 2008Minimizing tree root growth impacts on infrastructures requires an appreciation of how roots function and generate force. To control root growth, identification of growth limiting attributes of the soil environment is necessary. Tree-literate management will control growth, protect infrastructure from root-caused problems, and protect the values and quality of trees.
- Tree Planting Area Size: Futuring Resource Availability and Constraints
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Added: November 05, 2008The success of tree plantings in communities and yards is dependent upon many features of species, site, and planting procedure. One component of site which directly affects new tree success, continued low maintenance growth, and relatively long life span is the open soil surface area and volume of soil colonized by roots. Selecting new planting sites for the availability of adequate resources, now and into the future, as trees expand their resources will maximize the chances of producing a great, long-lived tree.
- 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.
- Managing the Family Forest in the South
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Many of our forefathers came to this country because it``offered an opportunity to own land. This desire is still inherent``in many farmers and other private individuals who own 67``percent of the 182,164,000 acres of commercial forest land in``the South. The practice of forestry on these holdings offers``individuals something that can be both financially and``spiritually rewarding and, at the same time, contribute to the``local and national economies.
- Hydrilla
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Hydrilla (Hydrilla verticillata) is a submersed aquatic plant that forms nearly impenetrable mats of stems and leaves at the surface of the water. Originally called Florida elodea, this plant causes many problems in ponds, lakes, and rivers.
- Oak Regeneration
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An online slideshow on oak regeneration.
- Preserving Trees Affected By Development
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Mature trees provide many benefits to development sites. They enhance the aesthetic character of the area, give scale to the new buildings, provide shade, give a look of maturity to the landscape, and provide habitat for wildlife. it may be possible to retain trees with minimum forethought. However, preserving specimens that will survive and perform well in the new environment requires thorough planning, careful implementation, and adequate maintenance.
- Components of a Backyard Wildlife Habitat
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Added: October 20, 2008Wildlife need food, water, cover and space. To help you plan how to provide these in your backyard habitat, this fact sheet introduces you to 16 components.
- State Forestry Agencies
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A complete listing of state forestry agencies.
- Urban Trees and Shrubs
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A guide to the selection of trees and shrubs and their care in urban areas.
- 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.
- Anthracnose of acacia in Florida: occurrence and fungicidal control
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Describes the Anthracnose fungus of Acacia trees in Florida and its prevention and management.
