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- 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.
- 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.
- Bird Feeding: Tips for Beginners and Veterans
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This booklet is a basic guide for the beginner just embarking on the hobby of feeding birds, but it should also help veterans improve their feeding stations.
- Understanding the Pesticide Label for Citrus Grove Workers
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When used properly and according to their labels, pesticides can control, destroy, or repel pests such as weeds, insects, rodents, birds, fungi, bacteria or other organisms that cause loss or damage, or may be harmful to people's health. Pesticides handled in a careless manner can endanger the health of the applicator, other people, animals, plants, or the environment.
- Managing Wildlife Damage: Beavers
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Physical damage caused by beavers in the Southeast is estimated in the millions of dollars annually. Examples of this damage include timber and agricultural crop loss, damage to roads, septic systems and other property by flooding, and destruction of ornamental plants used in landscaping.
- Freshwater Fish Farming in Virginia: Selecting the Right Fish to Raise
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Added: February 13, 2008In this publication we present basic information on fish farming and discuss some of the opportunities and problems involved with growing certain freshwater fish and other aquatic animals in Virginia.
- Firewood: How Does It Stack Up?
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How much wood is in a cord? How can you tell if firewood is dry enough to burn well? What else should be considered when buying firewood?
- Financial Maturity: A Guide To When Trees Should Be Harvested
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Financial maturity is the point in the life of the tree beyond which the expected value increase no longer equals or exceeds the net return which would be obtained if the tree were sold and the cash value were invested elsewhere. This publication discusses methods of determining financial maturity.
- Estimating Weights of Branch Segments
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Added: October 31, 2008Estimating the forces and loads applied in tree systems requires the weight of different parts and portions be determined. One of the most difficult measures to estimate is green xylem weight in branches. Wood weight can be precisely and accurately determined in the laboratory from small samples at oven-dry moisture contents. Within living trees, moisture content values are difficult to determine accurately. The moisture contents of living tree xylem and associated tissue can vary between 30% and 250% as compared with the weight of any associatedwoody material.
- Environmental Management
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Protecting other resources while conducting forest management activities is what good stewardship is all about.
- Community Forestry
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Resources and case studies on landowners managing multiple properties cooperatively.
- Section 1: Recommended trees for Missouri Landscapes
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The trees in this section are considered to be desirable species. They should grow well in Missouri when planted properly under the right conditions.
- Flatwoods Citrus Best Management Practice: Minimizing Direct Deposition of Pesticides into Waterways
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Details how to best avoid and lessen water contamination due to pesticide use
- Riparian Buffers for Agricultural Land
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This PDF defines what a riparian buffer is, describes what benefits a riparian buffer can provide in an agricultural landscape, and identifies situations where installing a riparian buffer should be considered.
- Regenerating Southern Pine in Georgia
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Pine regeneration is neither a mystery nor hard to accomplish. It simply requires application of appropriate techniques and some advanced planning. Seldom can ``nature'' alone be relied upon to adequately regenerate a pine stand.
- Landscape and Human Health Laboratory
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A multidisciplinary research laboratory dedicated to studying ``the relationships between people and the environments they inhabit
- Needlecasts of Pines in Florida
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Describes the Needlecast fungi affecting Florida pines
- Identified Benefits of Community Trees and Forests
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Added: October 31, 2008Community trees and forests are valuable. To the 75% of the United States population that now live in urban and suburban areas, trees provide many goods and services. Values are realized by the people that own the trees, by people nearby, and by society.
- Growing Shiitake Mushrooms
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Added: October 06, 2008As an alternative enterprise in the United States, Shiitake represents a way to utilize a forest resource that, in many cases,is considered a weed.
- Conservation and the Water Cycle
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Water moves from clouds to land and back to the ocean in a never ending cycle. This is the water cycle, or the hydrologic cycle.
- A House Invader from the Wild Garden
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Some animal is living in my attic,'' the caller said. ``I've collected droppings--can you tell me what they are?''
- Summary of the Endangered Species Act of 1973
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The purposes of this Act are: to provide a means whereby the ecosystems upon which endangered and threatened species depend may be conserved; to provide a program for the conservation of such endangered and threatened species; and, to take such steps as may be appropriate to achieve the purposes of the international treaties and conventions of which the United States of America is a part.
- Tree Fall Distance Estimate
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The distance covered by a falling tree is critical for removal of targets and defense of landscape features. The distance within range of a falling tree impacts right-of-way management, trail and road protection, and valuation procedures.
- Nitrogen Prescriptions for Trees
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Added: October 31, 2008Supplemental nitrogen fertilization should be treated as a fined-tuned, carefully considered, constantly modified, whole tree prescription process. The whole tree wins or loses with the changing reactions of one major organ or resource.
- 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.
- Cercosporidium Blight of Leyland Cypress and Related Conifers
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Profiles Cercosporidium Blight and the conifer trees it affects
- Snakes of Georgia
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Powerpoint slides of the snakes of Georgia.
- Ecology & Biodiversity
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The Virtual Library of Ecology and Biodiversity division of The Virtual Library Project specializes in reviewing internet information sources pertaining to ecology and biodiversity based on their educational value.
- Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
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Forest fragmentation from urban sprawl is a site-level phenomenon; however, it affects conservation of biodiversity at landscape and regional scales. Impediments to conservation occur when crossing jurisdictional and agency (local, state, and federal) boundaries.
