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- 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.''
- Supplemental Income from Wildlife on Your Land
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More and more farmers and ranchers are considering hunting as a new source of income. Urban and suburban sprawl is wiping out historic wildlife habitats, and rural areas surrounding cities typically are posted against hunting or trespassing. Many sportsmen travel long distances to hunt gamebirds, waterfowl, and big game.
- Storms Over the Urban Forest
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Planning, Responding, and Regreening-- ``A community Guide to Natural Disaster Relief
- Selling Your Timber
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This fact sheet presents guidelines to assist individuals in marketing timber from their forest lands.
- Seasoning of Wood
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Seasoning is a costly and time consuming process and would not be employed except in special cases unless there were valid reasons why it is required.
- Real Property: Rural Landowner's Liability and Posting of Land
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Added: February 15, 2008This publication provides information regarding West Virginia's law concerning the liability of landowners to hunters, hikers, children, and other recreational users.
- Planting Southern Pines: A Guide to Species Selection and Planting Techniques
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Added: October 05, 2008As more landowners become involved with tree planting, they learn that proper species selection and careful handling and care of seedlings are vitally important in the success of their reforestation investments. This bulletin can be used as a guide for selecting the proper species and in handling seedlings throughout all phases of tree planting.
- Marketing Your Timber: The Products
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Knowledge of forest products is fundamental to helping forest landowners effectively market timber. Therefore, a basic understanding of the major forest product groups is essential to helping landowners get the highest price when marketing their timber.
- Insect and Mite Galls On Missouri Trees
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Galls are abnormal vegetative growths that can be found on practically every part of a plant. It is usually structurally strong and rich in protein, and provides protection and food for the occupant developing within.
- Initiating Fall Leaf Colors
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Spring flower colors are raised in fall to crown the trees. The pigments are the same but the colored containers have changed from dainty petals to coarse, broad leaves. Fall tree colors are composed of pigments that can be divided into oil paints, wate...
- Fusiform Rust (Cronartium quercuum f. sp. fusiforme)
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Fusiform rust, is the most damaging disease of slash and loblolly pines throughout the southeastern United States. This disease causes stem, branch and trunk cankers (galls) to form on infected trees.
- Forest Stewardship: Estate Planning
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This bulletin outlines the procedures necessary to create an estate plan that will ensure the orderly transfer of your cherished forest land intact and with a minimum tax burden.
- Fertilizing Pine Plantations
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Fertilization of pine plantations in the South has increased dramatically with over 1,000,000 acres fertilized in 1997 alone. Fertilization is used to correct inherent site nutrient deficiencies such a limited phosphorus on wet flatwoods sites and on some upland coastal plain sites, to boost growth of established plantations, and to replace nutrients removed in pine straw harvests.
- 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.
- Calibration of Hand Sprayers for Herbicide Application
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Added: March 21, 2008This fact sheet describes the steps for calibrating hand sprayers, and discusses active ingredient recommendations, measuring herbicides and factors that affect spray rate.
- Border Irrigation System
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Border irrigation is an old irrigation system used in the western part of the United States to irrigate alfalfa, wheat, other small grains, and sometimes row crops. It is a system where a large volume of water is put in a defined border or bay at the top of the field and guided by the borders down the slope in a uniform wetting pattern to the end of the field.
- Strength of Solid Tree Stems
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Added: October 31, 2008The strength of tree stems to resist bending in the wind is associated with the cross-sectional area of the stem. Strength is proportional to the diameter of the stem to the fourth power (DIAMETER). Small increases in diameter yield large increases in strength. This publication presents a theoretical examination of relative strengths of round stems as modeled by bending moments in solid cylinders. Resistance to torsional forces (twist) are two times that of bending forces.
- Pictures from the Past
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A scrapbook of memorabilia from the SC Forestry Commission's history.
- Options for Disposing of Leaves
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This publication discusses options that are available to homeowners to dispose of their leaves.
- Make a Stone Pile in Your "Wild Garden"
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Added: October 20, 2008A stone pile in an old fence row is a fascinating detail in a rural landscape. A sunny, springtime day is a good time to go stealthily along your favorite paths and creep up on a rock pile. Its picturesque, lichen-covered rocks seem to date to antiquity.
- Loblolly Pine: The Ecology and Culture of Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda L.)
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Loblolly Pine: The Ecology and Culture of Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda L.) highlights individual tree, stand, and land management alternatives useful to resource managers, students, researchers, and others.
- Fertilizer Application Best Management Practices for Citrus Grove Workers
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Details how to analyze for best fertilization application/use, safety, essential elements information, and possible environmental issues. Sections include quizzes over given information.
- Herbicide Application Best Management Practices for Citrus Grove Workers
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describes safety practices and application techniques
- Estimating Leaning Tree Failures
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Leaning trees are difficult to assess for catastrophic risk management. In leaning trees, the strength in tension and compression of various portions of the tree above ground, soil strength, and root holding aspects all interact.
- 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.
- Tree Roots in Urban Landscapes
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The top of the tree is easy to see, thus any problems there are quickly noted. But did you know that much of the tree decline you see above ground is due to problems originating below ground?
- Water Gardens and Weeds
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Most of the aquatic and wetland plants sold by the industry never become problems. However, a few have proven to be highly invasive and have caused significant environmental problems, obstructing waterways, restricting water flow, degrading water quality, and interfering with fishing and recreation. This publication contains about invasive species that are not native to the United States, but have entered as contaminants among other plants or as intentional introductions.
- Mechanical Harvesting and Tree Health
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details various injury and harm that can befall a tree subjected to mechanical harvesting techniques
- 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.
- Selection and Care of Christmas Trees
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Selection of the "perfect" Christmas tree can be an enjoyable and rewarding experience. By following a few simple procedures, buyers can select trees which will meet their needs throughout the holiday season.
