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- Managing Your Land for Wildlife
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Whether you manage a full-time cropping operation or maintain a hobby farm, modest landscape and production-related changeslike those made by Minnesota landowners profiled in this publicationcan provide wildlife food and cover.
- Make a Tree-frog Pond
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Added: October 20, 2008One summer day a few years ago I improvised a bird bath out of a large plant pot about a foot tall and a foot wide. I put a little branch in it so the birds could walk down the branch to reach the water.
- Make a Frog Pond for Your Wildlife Garden
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Every wildlife garden has room for a backyard frog pond. Six kinds of frogs have found my little mini ponds that I made especially for them. I like seeing them and hearing their calls at night.
- Kentucky Watershed Management
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This website answers all of the who, what, where, how, and why watershed management questions.
- 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...
- Collecting Insects Pinning and Labeling
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This publication describes ways of pinning and labeling various insects for display.
- Attract More Wildlife Through Timber Management
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Forest management will improve the forest environment for people, animals, and trees. Your forestland is valuable for the wildlife, timber, and other products and benefits produced there. Forest management will add to your pleasure and satisfaction from forest ownership as it increases your income.
- Citrus Problems In The Home Landscape
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Profiles different health problems common in private yard-dwelling citrus plants
- Selected Bibliography: Ecological Restoration
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Anderson P. 1995. Ecological restoration and creation: A review. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 56 (Suppl. A): 187-211. Anderson TA; Kruger EL; Coats JR; Schepart BS. 1995. Rhizosphere microbial communities of herbicide tolerant plants as pote...
- North Carolina Department of Environmental and Natural Rewsources Division of Forest Resources
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Forest Service Home Page about who we are.
- A Handbook for Forest Vegetation Management in Recreation and Historic Parks
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Added: February 12, 2008This handbook provides information on general forest ecology for parks in the Southeastern United States, as well as management advice for achieving many objectives common to recreational and historical parks in the region. Maintaining healthy forests, dealing with exotic species, controlling turf and meadow areas, and creating screens and windbreaks are all common issues faced by many park managers. These and more are addressed in this handbook.
- Management Practices for Enhancing Wildlife Habitat
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This publication briefly describes the most common habitat management practices for wildlife.
- Conservation Easements
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An introduction to conservation easements.
- 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.
- 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.
- Why You Might Want Your Next Christmas Tree to be a Virginia Pine
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Not all Christmas trees are alike. Each type of tree has its own set of characteristics. Virginia Pine is a tree that will last longer than most other trees and allows you to extend the time you can display it.
- Urban Trees and Shrubs
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A guide to the selection of trees and shrubs and their care in urban areas.
- Planting Southern Pines
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This document describes ways in which nonindustrial, private landowners can plant future forests with information on the steps involved in successfully planting southern pine seedlings.
- 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?
- Dimensional Changes in Wood
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From early Paleolithic times, wood has been one of``the most important raw materials for making everything``from furniture to weapons to art. The availability``of metal tools about 5000 BC gave Egyptians the ability to``improve the art of cutting veneer pieces to use in construction``of various products. Although wood uses and processing``techniques have been developing for millennia, the science of``wood technology is relatively new.
- A Guide for 4-H Wood Science Projects
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The purpose of Wood Science Projects is to introduce young people to the characteristics of wood that give it potential as a raw material for products as varied as furniture for homes, lumber for construction, barrels for liquids and airplane parts.
- Natural Regeneration Using Seed Trees
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Seed-tree regeneration presents an excellent opportunity for most of the forestland owners in Mississippi who want to grow pine or other light-seeded species, but regeneration is not free and landowners should not try to use this method if they currently do not have a good quality stand of trees.
- 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.
- Aquatic Weed Management in Citrus Canals and Ditches
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Aquatic plants are necessary for maintaining the balance of nature and offering food, protection, oxygen, and shelter to aquatic species. One reality of growing citrus in Florida flatwoods areas is that nearly every citrus grower will sooner or later experience aquatic weed control problems. Maintaining a balance in the aquatic system while sustaining crop success and avoiding loss of income can be a challenge. Over-abundant aquatic weed growth can also lower drainage rates following heavy rains, resulting in severe root pruning, increased disease incidence, and fruit drop. Therefore management of aquatic vegetation species should be an essential component of the overall water management strategy for most Flatwoods citrus groves.
- 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.
- University of Florida School of Forest Resources and Conservation Extension
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Information provided on forest management, natural resource education, forest plants, urban forests, and forest stewardship.
- Spray Equipment Calibration
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This publication discusses how to properly calibrate the equipment so as to achieve the correct application amount.
- 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.
- Pine Tortoise Scale
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One of the more difficult insects for Christmas tree growers to control is the pine tortoise scale (Toumeyella parvicornis).
- Interface South
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Added: July 18, 2002Interface South was developed by the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station and Southern Region to heighten awareness of wildland-urban interface issues. It also addresses the growing need for information and tools by natural resource professionals, private landowners, homeowners and others affected by the changes occurring in southern forests.
