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- T.R.E.E.S. Project Overview
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Welcome to the T.R.E.E.S. Project. In these pages you will learn of some innovative, inexpensive solutions to many of Los Angeles' most persistent environmental and social problems. Until now, drought, flooding, air and water pollution, landfill closures, high energy costs, youth unemployment, and urban blight have appeared to be unrelated and virtually insurmountable challenges. And the problems have been addressed by separate agencies, often working at odds with each other.
- Species for Christmas Tree Planting in Virginia
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Christmas tree production in Virginia has steadily increased over the last several years. Favorable climate, soils, and proximity to markets place Virginia growers in a highly desirable marketing situation. Selection of the proper species, however, is important.
- 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.
- Renovating Poor Pine Stands: Putting Land Back to Work
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Several aspects of pine stand renovation are presented here. The primary management objective covered in this publication is pine timber production and marketing.
- Québec Forest Industries Association
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Added: May 21, 2008The Québec Forest Industries Association (QFIA) represents 21 manufacturing firms. These companies account for 97% of Québec's pulp and paper production.
- Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus)
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The piping plover is a small shorebird about 7 inches (17.75 cm) long that resembles a sandpiper. The upper parts of the bird are a light sandy brown while the underparts are white. It has two black bands, one that crosses the top of the head from eye.
- Pine Diseases in Kansas: Tip Blight, Dothistroma Needle Blight, and Pine Wilt
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This publication discusses various diseases for the purpose of helping the grower identify the problem and provide current control recommendations.
- Management Practices for Enhancing Wildlife Habitat
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This publication briefly describes the most common habitat management practices for wildlife.
- Loblolly Pine: Pushing the Limits of Growth
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Added: February 08, 2008While the world demand for paper and paper products is growing dramatically, the available acreage for production is declining. As a result, much of the nation's future fiber supply will have to come from intensively managed plantations.
- Landscape Plantings for Energy Savings
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The high cost of home heating and air conditioning prompts efforts to reduce home energy consumption. Although outdoor landscape plants are pleasing in themselves, they can also play a large part in controlling energy use indoors.
- Irrigation System Selection
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Several decisions must be made before an irrigation system is installed in a field. Some determinations are technical in nature, some economic, and others involve a close scrutiny of the operation and crop to be irrigated.
- Introduction to Growing Christmas Trees in Virginia
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Each year many landowners in Virginia consider Christmas tree farming as an alternative enterprise for their unused open land. This publication provides a broad overview of Christmas tree production in Virginia.
- IDNR Urban Forestry Websites and References
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National urban forestry organizations.
- Growing Christmas Trees in North Carolina
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This publication provides basic information to assist individuals in growing Christmas trees. It attempts to address the wide range of production, marketing, and business issues that may be encountered in such a venture.
- 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.
- Georgia Urban Forest Council
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Added: January 14, 2008The Georgia Urban Forest Council is a non-profit organization offering educational and other opportunities to promote excellent community forestry policies, programs and practices throughout Georgia.
- Forest Management
- Forest Landowners Assocation
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Added: September 17, 2008The mission of the Forest Landowners Assocation is: to support, through advocacy, education, and information, forest landowners' responsible management of their private property.
- Climate Changes Impacts on the Hydrology and Productivity of a Pine Plantation
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This study examines the effects of future climate changes on drainage and forest productivity.
- Flatwoods Citrus Best Management Practice: Soil Stabilization
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Added: November 16, 2011This best management practice describes stabilization practices for erosion-prone soils within flatwoods citrus groves
- Selecting A Consulting Forester
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Added: October 01, 1999Some questions that you might want to consider when selecting a consulting forester.
- Critical Force for Buckling Tree Stems
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Tree strength and stiffness can resist significant forces and not fail. A large proportion of this strength lies with the thickness (diameter) of the stem. Stem buckling occurs when an exerted force begins and continues to bend the stem beyond recovery.
- Wildlife Plantings And Practices
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Three of the most important requirements for game and non-game wildlife are food, water, and shelter. Increasing or decreasing wildlife populations is primarily a matter of altering these basic requirements.
- The Economic Value of Open Space
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While much has been written about the economic value of the environment in general and of open space in particular, the literature is segregated by discipline or methodology. It is therefore difficult to assess the economic value of open space comprehensively. It is even more difficult to apply what is known in a public policy context, where open space holds significant non-monetary value.
- Prescribed Burning
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Prescribed burning brochure from the Georgia Forestry Commission.
- Forestry Income Tax Series - Basics of Basis
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Basis is the amount of your invested money or the cost of your property such as timber or land. Basis is not the current value of your property.
- Exotic Trees in the United States: Naturalized or Escaped form Cultivation
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Trees species brought into an area where they did not ecologically develop or where they are not considered "native," are exotic trees. Many exotic trees are grown for food, ornamental, aesthetic, or other specialized uses. Sometimes these exotic trees es...
- Distance Diagnostics thru Digital Imaging
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- Cut and Leave: A Method for Controlling Southern Pine Beetle Infestations
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The cut-and-leave method is an effective means of controlling small remote spots (10 to 50 infested trees) that cannot be salvaged.
- Considerations in Drying Hardwood Lumber
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This publication presents some important points to remember when considering hardwood lumber drying.
