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- Growing Christmas Trees on Reclaimed Surface-Mined Land
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Christmas tree production can be an excellent use for reclaimed mined lands in Virginia. Most species do quite well on mine soils because they are more tolerant of the acid, infertile, and droughty conditions than agricultural or horticultural crops, yet they do respond to active management.
- Forest Management Planning
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Forest management planning is a means of allowing you to practice good stewardship of your property and its resources. The planning helps you identify what resources and opportunities are available on your property and what you would like to realize from your propery in terms of financial gain and long-term enjoyment.
- Forest History Society
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The Forest History Society links the past to the future by identifying, collecting, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating information on the history of interactions between people, forests, and their related resources - timber, water, soil, forage, fish and wildlife, recreation, and scenic or spiritual values.
- Ecological Renovation: Assessment Steps for Development Sites
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Once a management unit has been defined, and we understand how it functions at the most basic level, we can then begin a site assessment process. To ecologically renovate an ecoplex, an assessment process must be used that can identify resource inputs and...
- Conservation Easements
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An introduction to conservation easements.
- Bring Ducks To Your Land
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Ponds and other wetlands provide habitat for ducks and other wildlife seldom seen elsewhere. Simple management methods can change a barren pond to one that produces several good duck hunts a year.
- Leasing Your Hunting Rights
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Leasing Your Hunting Rights: Considerations for Drafting a Proper Lease Agreement.
- Make a Stone Pile in Your "Wild Garden"
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Added: October 20, 2008A stone pile in an old fence row is a fascinating detail in a rural landscape. A sunny, springtime day is a good time to go stealthily along your favorite paths and creep up on a rock pile. Its picturesque, lichen-covered rocks seem to date to antiquity.
- A Key to Common Trees of Alabama
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Added: September 25, 2003This key can help you easily identify any of the 66 most common trees found in Alabama. Keys such as this one, which is based on a series of choices between two statements, are called dichotomous keys. This key was designed for use during the growing season. Leaf and bark characteristics are the primary features used for identifying trees.
- 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.
- Pine Webworm
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Pines grown for Christmas trees have a lower market value and are sometimes difficult to sell when they contain unsightly webworm nests. Infestations on ornamental pines around homes detract from the beauty of the trees.
- Timber and the Economy of Alabama
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Alabama's first residents called themselves "the thicket clearers," or "AlaBamas." The forest, once viewed as an impediment to agriculture, is now recognized as the backbone of the state economy. Trees from the forest feed an industry that directly employs more than 49,000 workers, indirectly provides employment for thousands more, and is the leading contributor to the gross state product.
- Sustainable or Certified Forestry?
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In the past two years, "Sustainability", "Stewardship" and "Certification" have emerged as keywords in forest industry literature and media releases. The majority of forest industry 2000 Annual Reports contain at least one of these terms. At Timber Mart-South, we ask how this trend affects timber markets and what forces work to drive it.
- What Happened to the Southern Pine Beetle?
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For the first time in 17 years, no infestations of the southern pine beetle were reported on state and private lands in East Texas in 1998.
- Selecting Wooded Home Sites
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Added: October 31, 2008Buying a new house or building your dream house is an exciting venture. The site you select and its trees will play an important part in the beauty and value of your home and the feeling of well-being it provides for you. Examine the trees on the site carefully and do not overlook the many values they provide.
- Managing your Forest Landscape for Firewood
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Management of a small woodlot is not that different from managing large tracts of land. The key to management is knowing how to inventory the initial volume and how to calculate the amount of product, in this case firewood, that is accumulating in the stand.
- 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.
- 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.
- What Does Severe Drought Stress Do to Trees and Landscape Plants?
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Added: February 23, 2001During times of drought, trees and landscape plants often show the effects of the hot, dry weather. Not only is this very harmful to trees, it contributes to extreme conditions for forest and range fires.
- Timber Sale Contracts
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Added: March 21, 2001This factsheet focuses on the process of entering into a contract with a timber buyer.
- Pounce on Weevils to Protect Pine Seedlings
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A new pyrethroid insecticide known as Pounce has been registered in the State of Texas to protect newly-planted pine seedlings from damage or loss to regeneration weevils. The insecticide is applied to seedlings in the nursery just prior to lifting.
- NSA ONLINE
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National Sportsman Association (NSA) leases hunting rights from landowners who have properties in VA, MD and WVA. NSA has managed hunting leases since 1974 and conducts its activities in a manner which not only benefits wildlife but also provides a means of income to landowners and provides recreational opportunities to responsible sportsmen.
- Forest Ecology Map Pack
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Added: October 20, 2008Maps depicting the major soil areas of Georgia, major watersheds of Georgia, solar radiation zone analysis in Georgia, temperature zone analysis in Georgia, average days above 90F, average cooling degree days, average days below 32F, average heating degree...
- Eastern Gray Squirrel
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Added: September 17, 2008Management guide.
- Wood Decks: Practical Considerations from a Wood Perspective
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Considering problems that might occur is often more involved than dealing with those which actually occur. The vast majority of decks are actually quite satisfying and satisfactory.
- Insect Pests of Christmas Trees
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This site contains images and descriptions of various insect pests that affect christmas trees
- Woodlands Protection
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This publication discusses the importance of recognizing dangers to woodland health and suggests ways of protecting it.
- Wildlife Habitat Improvement: Wetlands
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Added: October 20, 2008Often, the best strategy for managing wetlands is to conserve and protect what you already have. However, wetland habitats can be enhanced to attract a wider variety of wildlife.
- Wildfire Risk Assessment Guide for Homeowners in the Southern United States
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Martha Monroe, faculty member; Ludie Ehlers and Anna Behm, graduate students,``in the School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, contributed``repeated reviews, creative ideas, and a lot of hard work on a survey of over 170``southern fire professionals.``Forty fire prevention and management specialists, from nine states, responded to the survey``and an early draft of the Guidelines with valuable suggestions about format, use and content.
- Using Rotenone To Renovate Fish Populations In Farm Ponds
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The ultimate fate of many farm ponds in Mississippi is an unbalanced fish population that is undesirable to fishermen, and, therefore, has little recreational fishing value. Once a fish population reaches such a condition, the best alternative is usually to eliminate the resident fish completely and to restock with a desirable combination of fish at recommended rates.
