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- Fertilizing Woody Ornamentals
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Attractive trees and shrubs are important components in all well-landscaped properties. Planned maintenance and care are essential for keeping them healthy and vigorous. An adequate fertilization program is an important requirement of any good woody-plant maintenance program.
- 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 Excess Personal Property
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Draft handbook for FEPP; excess federal property for use by volunteer fire departments and state agencies.
- Fall Tree Color Outline
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Leaf color formation is a natural process. Short, cool days of fall bring changes to trees. Green light-capture systems must be closed-down for winter. Turning-off leaves reveal fall colors. Best colors come with cool, dry, and bright sunny days. Frosts,
- Drought and Trees: A Selected Bibliography
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Research shows that almost 80% of the growth variability in trees and forests is associated with water availability. Drought remains one of the most biologically damaging and ecologically limiting of all environmental constraints. To better understand d...
- Dealing With Timber Theft
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Forestland can provide countless hours of recreational benefits as well as an important source of income. Many landowners take careful steps to ensure that their property is managed to maximize the benefits they receive. However, all of this work can be easily eradicated by one of Virginias most dreaded forest pests: timber thieves.
- Contribution of Roads to Forest Fragmentation
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Fragmentation affects animal populations in a variety of ways, including decreased species diversity and lower densities of some animal species in the resulting smaller patches. This study seeks to quantify the effects of roads and logging activities on forest habitat.
- Concepts of Change: Futuring Community Forestry
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Added: October 31, 2008The one common, constant feature of the future will be accelerating change. Community natural resource management is changing as fast as the nation's demographics and quality of life technologies. As managers, we must be prepared for change, expect change, and allow change to help us manage more effectively.
- Causes of Soil Compaction
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Added: November 05, 2008In order to understand and visualize soil compaction more completely, the underlying causes must be appreciated. Soil compaction is primarily caused by construction and development activities, utility installation, infrastructure use and maintenance, and concentrated animal, pedestrian, and vehicle traffic. Below are listed individual components of how soil is compacted.
- 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.
- Best Management Practices: Endangered Species Act
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Endangered Specis Act
- A New Sense of Community: Defining Social Changes
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The term "community" is loosely and superfluously used in many contexts. Many times the term "community" is jargon for assuring inclusion and a delineator of political boundaries.
- A Landowner's Guide to Building Foesty Access Roads
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Added: July 26, 2002Roads provide needed access to small woodlots; however, high costs, land disturbance, degradation of water quality, and destruction of fish habitat can all result from poor development, construction, and maintenance of forest roads. This guide was developed to give private owners of small woodlots the basic information needed to avoid these problems and protect valued natural resources.
- Detention/Retention for Citrus Stormwater Management
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Added: November 16, 2011Describes structural and nonstructural controls used in water management, and the detention/retention processes and their benefits.
- Tree Roots and Infrastructure Damage
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Added: November 05, 2008Division of space among the many and varied uses in our communities is highly competitive. The economic, environmental, sociological and psychological values generated and managed to assure our quality of life involves an interconnected fabric of biotic and abiotic features. Deeply woven into our developed support systems are natural systems which co-inhabit our useable space. As we concentrate and transport resources to support ourselves, the volumes and surfaces of our spaces become more resistant to the survival of other life forms.
- Pruning
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Educational materials containing pruning information
- Aquatic and Marine Ecosystems, 4H
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Aquatic and Marine Ecosystems (4H MEL 20) is a leader-led project that teaches young people about aquatic and marine ecosystems. Activity pages in the back of the 1-inch loose-leaf notebook can be taken out and reproduced by educators.
- Insects and Diseases: Important Problems of Florida's Forest and Shade Tree Resources
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Lists several diseases and insects of different tree types
- Assessing Pruning Wound Damage
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Added: October 31, 2008To better understand and minimize damage to trees during pruning, an assessment system was developed. This system is based upon long-term tree functions and reactions to wounding.
- Start Now to Design Citrus Groves for Mechanical Harvesting
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Added: November 16, 2011details and promotes the structure of citrus groves around the practice of mechanical harvesting
- Quality Wood Products from Georgia Forestry
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Added: October 25, 2008"Continued population growth and the assumed expansion of the United States economy will impact heavily on the forest resources of the United States. Additionally, changes in social values and attitudes are increasing the demand on the forest resources to produce a variety of goods and services. Such demands are shifting harvesting pressure from western to eastern forests." (Rosson, 1995). Forestry in the state of Georgia is reported as the number one manufacturing industry in the state in employment, output, and value added. The purpose of this presentation is to explore issues related to timber product output, forest land resources, ownership, employment, output, value added, and other forestry resource related issues in Georgia. Also, comparisons are made with other agricultural crops in Georgia and in the region.
- Forest Terminology for Multiple-Use Management
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This glossary is designed to cut through some of the confusion by providing, in one place, definitions for many of the terms commonly used in modern``forestry.
- Spray Equipment Calibration
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This publication discusses how to properly calibrate the equipment so as to achieve the correct application amount.
- How to Save Dutch Elm Diseased Trees By Pruning
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Dutch elm disease (DED), caused by the fungus, Ceratocystis ulmi, is the most devastating shade tree disease in the United States. Healthy elms can become diseased by 1) elm bark beetles that carry the fungus from elm to elm, or 2) through root grafting with already infected trees. Along with wilt symptoms, streaking (sapwood discoloration), a characteristic internal symptom of the disease, progresses rapidly down from limbs inoculated by bark beetles (Allison 1978).
- An Introduction to Forest Certification
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Added: October 25, 2008Forest certification, or green certification is an attempt to identify forestland that is managed towards the goal of sustainability.
- Timber Harvest Tax: Who Pays, When, Where and How Much?
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Since 1992, timber value is no longer added to the value of the land in the county tax digest. Timber and land are each a separate class of property and are taxed differently.
- 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.
- Invasive Species of Concern in Georgia
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It is provided by The Georgia cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey Program in The Bugwood Network as a means of providing accurate and timely information to Georgia residents about SOD issues and activities in Georgia.
- Gypsy Moth Damage
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The gypsy moth is the most important defoliating insect of hardwood trees in the Eastern United States. Since the turn of the century, millions of dollars have been spent in efforts to control or eliminate gypsy moth populations and to retard natural and artificial spread. In the early decades of this century, outbreaks occurred only in New England; today defoliation by the gypsy moth is far more severe and widespread.
- Tree Planting: Planning
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This publication discusses the steps for successful tree planting.
