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- Kids in the Woods
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The trick in environmental education programs is to create an opportunity for youth to learn something. Ideally, these experiences will help them understand how the world works, be memorable, and support positive attitudes toward the environment.
- Farm Pond Management Calendar BROKEN
- Hurricane-damaged Shade, Ornamental, and Fruit Trees
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A brief guide to single tree care after catastrophic weather events.
- Assessing Extent and Severity of Mechanical Injuries in Trees
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Added: November 05, 2008Assessing new mechanical injuries present in a tree using visual, non-invasive observations is difficult and prone to wild variability, inaccuracy, and assessor subjectivity. Assessment of relative damage levels is valuable when precision allows for comparisons across one site and over many sites. Judging recent mechanical injuries from visual criteria, although imperfect, can help gauge the relative amount of damaged tissue visible and estimate the total amount of damaged tissue present.
- Food Plots - Common Plants
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Food plots are widely used by landowners to improve wildlife habitat. Food plots can be used to attract animals for harvest or viewing. In general, food plots are an expensive attempt to improve wildlife habitat. Food plots have little or no wildlife value if food plots are established at the expense of maintaining cover. Wildlife needs both adequate food and cover within a reasonable distance of each other.
- Changing Color
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Added: February 26, 2008This article describes the changes that take place in trees and cause them to change colors.
- Agroforestry in Minnesota: A Guide to Resource & Demonstration Sites
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This guide is designed to provide information on the concepts and practices of agroforestry.
- Tree Root Growth Requirements
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Roots utilize space in the soil.
- Soil Constraints on Root Growth
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Added: October 31, 2008Managed tree root growth control is required to minimize impacts on infrastructures. To constrain root growth, identification of soil attributes that limit growth is required. By understanding what soil conditions limit growth, various tools and techniques can be used to stop, redirect, or slow tree root elongation. Tree-literacy incorporates soil and tree health into a single concept for quality management.
- Community Forestry
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Resources and case studies on landowners managing multiple properties cooperatively.
- Southern Weed Science Society
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The Society is established to bring together those persons from any state, area, institution or agency, who are directly interested in weed control within the Society area through research, education, regulation, manufacturing or merchandising.
- National Project Learning Tree (PLT) Homepage
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PLT is an award-winning, interdisciplinary environmental education program for educators working with students in PreK through grade 12. PLT helps students gain awareness and knowledge of the natural and built environment, their place within it, as well as their responsibility for it.
- Heat Stroke in Trees
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Summer has provided a number of hot and dry weeks for people and trees. Many of the old, young, and soil-limited trees have been damaged. The combination of drought and harsh site conditions provided in parking lots, along streets, on open squares, and su...
- Grow CRP Trees to Financial Maturity
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What is your stand of Conservation Reserve Program pines worth?
- Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas)
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The long-lived green sea turtle weighs up to 850 pounds (382.5 kg), but anything more than 450 pounds (202.5 kg) is unusual today. The shell is heart-shaped, broad and flatter than most other sea turtles. It also lacks a central ridge.
- Identification of Common Trees of Iowa
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Added: July 19, 2008This interactive key was developed to help identify the most common trees in Iowa. The key is based on vegetative characteristics such as leaves, fruits, and bark. It is not a complete key. It does not include all trees grown in Iowa
- Dutch Elm Disease in Missouri
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Dutch elm disease's exact distribution in Missouri is not known, but it probably occurs in most sections of the state. The disease continues to spread and kill more elms each year.
- Forest fragmentation creating genetic bottleneck
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Scientists have recently discovered that the deforestation of tropical areas may be more devastating than previously thought.
- 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.
- 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.
- Mistletoes of North American Conifers
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The mistletoes are serious disease agents affecting forests in all three countries represented by the North``American Forestry Commission (NAFC 2002): Canada,Mexico, and the United States of America. For this``reason, the Commission through its Insect and Disease Study Group has asked us to prepare a practical guide for field foresters. This publication provides basic information``on the species of mistletoes, their hosts, distributions,``effects, methods of evaluation, and management.
- Mississippi Forestry Commission
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The Mississippi Forestry Commission (MFC) is a public service agency created by the Mississippi Legislature. In compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, our mission is to provide leadership in forest protection, forest management & information about the forest of Mississippi, through a fully informed, well-trained work force and support staff, reflecting the needs of the public and employees.
- Key to Leaves of Virginia Trees
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I've got my leaf, let's get started!
- Herbicide Prescriptions for Controlling Competing Vegetation in Christmas Tree Plantings in Kentucky
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This publication outlines herbicide prescriptions that have been developed using the results from herbicide trials at Robinson Forest, operational test sites in the inner and outer Bluegrass Regions of Kentucky, and from specimen label information.
- Georgia Conservation Use Tables of Value for 1996
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Added: October 20, 2008This newsletter presents the 1996 Conservation Use tables of values as developed by the Georgia Department of Revenue (DOR).
- Estate Planning Opportunities and Strategies for Private Forest Landowners
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The purpose of this book is to educate readers about the tax and property law issues involved in planning the transfer of property after death. It is not intended to be and should not be considered as legal advice to those who read it.
- Eastern Cottontail Rabbit BROKEN
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The Eastern Cottontail rabbit is one of the most popular game animals in the country. It is found in many parts of the United States, and in parts of the Northeast and Midwest, it is the number one game species.
- Ducks Unlimited
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The mission of Ducks Unlimited is to fulfill the annual life cycle needs of North American waterfowl by protecting, enhancing, restoring and managing important wetlands and associated uplands.
- Deer in the Wild Garden
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The wildlife in your yard aren't just squirrels and rabbits anymore. University of Georgia county extension agents now answer thousands of questions a year on backyard problems deer cause.
- Clemson Researchers Find Prescribed Fire Regenerates Oak Forests
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Fire is being prescribed by Clemson University forestry researchers to regenerate oak forests. Regenerating oaks following timber harvests is a major challenge because faster growing yellow polar and red maple trees crowd out the more valuable oak seedlings.
