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- Fertilizing Honeysuckle For Deer
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Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica) is a woody evergreen vine that is very nutritious for deer. It can constitute a major portion of the seasonal diet and in some cases the year-round diet of white-tailed deer in the Southeast. The leaves and seeds also are eaten by cottontail rabbits, northern bobwhites, and eastern wild turkeys.
- Best Management Practices: Endangered Species Act
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Endangered Specis Act
- Citrus Problems In The Home Landscape
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Profiles different health problems common in private yard-dwelling citrus plants
- Urban Forest Inventory: Selected Bibliography
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A list of references for urban forest inventories.
- Reducing Deer Damage at Home and on the Farm
- IPM Checklist In Established Fraser Fir Christmas Tree Plantations
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Integrated pest management or IPM is a sustainable approach to controlling pests by combining biological, cultural, physical and chemical tools in a way that minimizes economic, health, and environmental risks. This checklist is designed to give ideas of practices that may be adopted so that tree production can become closer to the IPM ideal.
- Drying Softwoods for Value Added Markets
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There is a great opportunity for softwood mills to enter into the value added markets arena, including lumber used for moulding, doors, windows, and furniture. However, to be successful in this market, quality drying is a prerequisite. In this paper, suggestions on how to select a proper target moisture content, conventional temperature schedules for quality drying, equalizing for a uniform final moisture content, and conditioning for stress relief will be discussed.
- Tree and Shrub Selection
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Educational materials containing tree and shrub selection information
- Making Nitrogen Available to Trees
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Nitrogen affects the molecular interactions, compound shapes and functions, and the chemical symmetry of life-maintaining materials. In ecosystems, nitrogen is the most precious of elements--carefully used, relentlessly recycled, and biologically hoarded.
- Wildlife Publications
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A series of brief, illustrated, non-technical information sheets that describe life history, food sources, and management tips for forest and urban dwelling wildlife. This series is tailored for landowners, homeowners and students.
- 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.
- Forest Management for Missouri Landowners
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This publication is a combination of original work and excerpts from some of the great references available to help private landowners manage their forest land.
- Large Trees For North Carolina
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Large trees are dominant features in the landscape. Many plans rely on trees for several design functions: to provide background, enclosure, define spaces, help reduce noise and unsightly views. Trees also provide needed shade, channel breezes, and break forceful winds. They also help the environment by filtering pollutants and exchanging oxygen for carbon dioxide.
- Landowner's Guide to Managing Streams in the Eastern United States
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This publication provides general information and management guidelines to help stream property owners and their neighbors protect, improve, and restore these valuable running waters.
- Virginia Department of Forestry
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VDOF is responsible for protection of 15 million acres of forest land from forest fire, insects and disease. ``Management of 14 State Forests and other state lands totaling about 50,000 acres for timber, recreation, water, research, wildlife and biodiversity. ``Providing professional forestry advice and technical management assistance for non-industrial private forest landowners through a variety of programs.
- Utilizing Municipal Trees: Ideas from Across the Country
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In the United States over 200 million cubic yards of urban tree and landscape residue are generated every year. Of this amount, 15 percent is classified as unchipped logs. To put this figure in perspective, consider that if these logs were sawn into boards, they theoretically would produce 3.8 billion board feet of lumber, or nearly 30 percent of the hardwood lumber produced annually in the United States.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Increase Woodland Products Through Timber Stand Improvement
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Many options are open to woodland owners. They may use a TSI program to increase the woodland's value for timber products, water, recreation, forage, wildlife, natural beauty, or for special products. Fortunately, work done to improve one use also benefits others in most cases.
- IDNR Urban Forestry Websites and References
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National urban forestry organizations.
- Identify, Prevent, and Control Oak Wilt
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Oak wilt is an aggressive disease that affects many species of oak (Quercus spp.). It is one of the most serious tree diseases in the eastern United States, killing thousands of oaks each year in forests, woodlots, and home landscapes.
- Guidelines for Preparing a Timber Sale Contract
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The legal consequences resulting from cutting, purchasing and selling timber should be of major concern to all parties involved in a timber sale. Most any forestry professional will recommend that you always use a timber sale contract...and you should customize every contract around a sale's unique conditions.
- Aquatic Weed Identification and Control: Burreed and Bulrush BROKEN
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Added: February 20, 2001Although burreed and bulrush are seldom a problem, this publication provides treatments that can easily be used to control them if necessary.
- Deer Management
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White-tailed deer are present in all parts of North Carolina. Their numbers vary from just a few in some locations to overpopulation in others. Greatest numbers generally occur in the coastal plain, although there are locally heavy populations in other parts of the state. The mountains generally have the lightest populations.
- 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
- 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.
- Zebra Mussels Pose a Threat to Virginia's Waters
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This publication explains the economic and biological consequences of zebra mussels, along with offering potential solutions for protecting Virginia's rivers and reservoirs from infestation.
- Utilizing Small Timber Volumes with Portable Sawmills: Guidelines for Log and Lumber Measurement
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Added: February 08, 2008This guide provides practical information on how to measure the volume of logs and lumber, as well as estimating the approximate cost of having the logs sawn.
