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- How to Buy and Sell Cordwood
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One of the first questions wood burners ask about wood is "How much per cord?" Price is important, but just as important is agreement on a standard way to measure and transfer the wood. Both the buyer and seller must agree and understand the procedure.
- Home Landscape Practices to Protect Water Quality
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Home lawns and landscapes may contribute to the water pollution when homeowners apply pesticides and fertilizers carelessly. By using pesticides and fertilizers properly and only when necessary and following recommended landscape practices, you can do your part to protect our lakes, streams, and drinking water for the future.
- Hawks Visit the Wild Garden
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Jay Shelton, a biologist friend, recently reported seeing a sparrow hawk try to take a small bird from near his bird feeder the other day. The hawk missed, but it was worth watching.
- Direct Seeding: A Forest Regeneration Alternative
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Direct seeding is one method of starting a crop of trees by artificial means. It is an option often overlooked by private landowners when they consider how to regenerate forest lands.
- Behind the Wall of Green: A Close Look at the Forest
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This publication is an introduction to forest conservation biology in Tennessee with a focus on trees, forests, and forest management and conservation.
- What Does Severe Drought Stress Do to Trees and Landscape Plants?
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Added: February 23, 2001During times of drought, trees and landscape plants often show the effects of the hot, dry weather. Not only is this very harmful to trees, it contributes to extreme conditions for forest and range fires.
- Trees in Your Life
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Added: October 06, 2008This publication explores the various wood products that we use in our everyday lives.
- Managing Your Timberland
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Added: September 24, 2003Forestland owners always face a variety of alternatives regarding managemen of their lands. Each landowner tends to be unique in the way he or she chooses to manage. Some manage intensively for maximum production of the timber resource. Others manage for a variety of benefits in addition to timber maximization, such as production of wildlife habitat or aesthetics. Some do not manage at all.
- Management of Hardwood Forests for Timber in Alabama
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Through forest management, the many benefits of hardwood forests can be protected and enhanced. In some cases, good profits from timber are possible. However, if improperly handled, hardwood forests can be seriously degraded in value.
- Needlecasts of Pines in Florida
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Describes the Needlecast fungi affecting Florida pines
- Pine Reproduction Weevils
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Pine seedlings planted on recently logged sites are often attacked by the pales and pitch-eating weevils. These weevils are attracted to the odor of fresh pine stumps and other pine logging debris.
- Uptake and Reduction of Nitrogen in Trees
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Adequate availability of nitrogen in soils is but one of the problems facing trees. Moving nitrogen inside the tree presents a number of unique problems and solutions.
- Sway Frequency in Tree Stems
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Added: October 31, 2008Assessing potential risks in trees is difficult because of the complex and chaotic nature of gauging tree failures. Tree movements in the wind, and the interactions between/within tree structure and soils, assure a multitude of forces, loads, and stress concentration points will need to be a part of any tree failure model. In order to better understand tree structure and its potential failure, individual components of tree mechanics need to be isolated from the complexity. One mechanical component arising from stem and branch shape is a repeating, damped movement back and forth by the free end--commonly called "sway.''
- 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.
- 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.
- Ecological and Economic Consequences of the 1998 Florida Wildfires
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The objective of this project was to assess the economic effects of catastrophic forest wildfires in Florida and various causal factors contributing to these fires, principal among them the use of prescribed burning. We used static and dynamic analyses at several spatial and temporal scales drawing on a combination of operational, survey and other data sources. One analysis estimated the economic effects of the 1998 wildfires in northeastern Florida, proximally caused by an unusually dangerous weather pattern associated with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle.
- Ash Rust
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Describes the characteristics and life cycle of Puccinia sparganioides, the fungus responsible for Ash rust, and its prevention and management.
- Trunk Shaker Mechanical Harvesting Systems
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profiles the different designs of Trunk Shakers and their basic use and operation
- Tree Ring Analysis: A Selected Bibliography of Major Works and Sources
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Added: October 20, 2008Below are listed a few of the books, proceedings, chapters, web sites, and articles dealing with tree ring formation and analysis. This is not an exhaustive list, but represents a few of the significant contributions and specific areas of study within the...
- The National Park System
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"...to promote and regulate the use of the...national parks...which purpose is to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations."
- Site Preparation Methods for Regenerating Southern Pines
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With adequate site preparation, southern pine stands can be regenerated by natural means (using seed from mature trees about to be harvested) or artificial means (planting seedlings or direct seeding).
- Pruning Forest Trees
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Added: March 22, 2008The most common reasons for pruning trees in plantations or woodlands are to maintain a single central leader, repair storm damage, or promote clear trunks or boles for eventual production of high grade lumber or veneer logs.
- Plant Trees Right!
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Added: October 25, 2008Getting trees started correctly in your yard, along streets or in a park is critical to long tree life, easy care and low-cost maintenance. One way to ensure trees are planted correctly is to give them plenty of room to grow. Fruit trees, trees in landscape beds and specimen ornamental trees are grown for different reasons and are not planted the same way as shade and street trees. Here, we deal with shade and street tree planting.
- Planning a Waste Pesticide Disposal Program
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From 1994 to 1998, the Mississippi Waste Pesticide Disposal Program helped farmers and other property owners dispose of more than 650,000 pounds of waste pesticides. This publication is designed as a learning tool to help others plan similar programs.
- Measuring Woodland Timber
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Forest products, like other agricultural commodities, must be measured before they are sold. Few woodland owners, however,understand the reasons for or the methods of measuring woodland timber.
- Intermediate-Aged Stand Management: Between Planting and Harvest
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Many forest stands in Georgia suffer from three common problems of middle-aged forests: Poor management, if any at all; no planning for regeneration; and stands that are too dense.
- Harperella (Ptilimnium nodosum)
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Found on and around wet sand bars, shoals, seeps, fast-flowing clear rocky streams, wet savanna meadows, shallow depressions in flatwoods, shallow pineland pools and ditches. Grows well under open canopies of oak, hickory, and pine. Short duration, annual...
- General Management Practices for Hazardous Fuels Management in Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda) forests
- Federal Income Tax on Timber - Key to Questions
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This publication examines the most common situations noncorporate taxpayers face when calculating Federal income tax on their timber holdings. It addresses aspects of each situation using a three column format.
- Aquatic Identification and Control: Spatterdock and Yellow Water Lily BROKEN
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This publication provides information on controlling spatterdock and yellow water lily.
