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- Hurricanes, Trees and Forests: A Selected Bibliography
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Hurricanes and trees do not mix well. This publication cites recent publications and journal articles which deal with various aspects of hurricane impacts on trees and forests. This not a comprehensive review but selected to provide a broad view of work a...
- Homegrown Catfish and Trout
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Almost any of Georgia's 100,000 farm ponds can be used to produce channel catfish for the family table. A well-managed pond can produce from 300 to 1,000 pounds of edible catfish per surface acre each year. Catfish production can be used as a valuable sup...
- Herbicide Spray Drift
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Herbicide spray drift is the movement of herbicide from the target area to areas where herbicide application was not intended. While the number of acres damaged and the annual economic loss from spray drift is not large, individuals who are affected can suffer substantial losses.
- Forest Landowners Assocation
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Added: September 17, 2008The mission of the Forest Landowners Assocation is: to support, through advocacy, education, and information, forest landowners' responsible management of their private property.
- 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.
- 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,
- Environmentally Sound Forest Harvesting
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Harvesting operations are one of the primary tools by which a landowner attains objectives for natural resource management. Although the operations are, by nature, disruptive, they certainly do not need to hinder ecological or environmental functions and processes.
- Endangered Plant Species of the Coastal Plain of Georgia
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Added: October 20, 2008The Endangered Species Act helps protect plants and animals in danger of extinction. Every federal agency and any activity or program funded, authorized or carried-out, such as the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) pesticide labelling program, must
- Ecoplex Form, Structure and Function: Ecological Renovation Targets
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One concept that must be developed and appreciated in ecological renovation of community sites is how we delineate space. Where are the edges of a management unit? We must clearly understand the impacts of defining and visualizing biotic islands, corridor...
- Don't Destroy Your Wild Garden: Leave Some Natural Habitat
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A woman called the other day for advice about some ``wild land'' she and her husband had bought. They would be moving there from their house on a microscopic lot in Athens.
- Cypress Management: A Forgotten Opportunity
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A Forestry Report by the USDA Forest Service on managing both pond and bald cypress.
- Creating a Water-Wise Landscape
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Minimizing the need for watering in your landscape requires careful observation, planning, and common sense. Several principles for water- wise landscaping include choosing the best design and plants, preparing soils, and watering properly for efficient water use.
- Common Trees of the Pacific Northwest
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Added: October 31, 2008Welcome to the tree identification Home Page at Oregon State University! The purpose of this site is to help you identify common conifers and broadleaves in the Pacific Northwest. Feel free to skip through the pages to learn more about specific genera, or to try your hand at identifying a tree specimen with a user-friendly dichotomous key. If you don't have a specimen handy, go to the mystery tree pages to try to identify the trees pictured.
- 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.
- Assessing Landscape Tree Loss After a Disaster
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Along with assessing structural damage to property caused by a storm or flood, property owners may need to calculate the financial loss represented by damage to trees and other landscaping. This publication helps owners determine the value of the damaged trees and landscaping.
- Aquatic Weed Identification and Control: Duckweed and Water Hycinth BROKEN
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The attractive water hycinth and abundant duckweed are usually not problematic, however, at times they may become pests. This publication offers suggestions on treatments that can be used to easily rid yourself of these two aquatic weeds.
- Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
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State Game & Fish agency for Alabama
- A Field Guide for Ground Checking Southern Pine Beetle Spots
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Added: February 14, 2008This handbook shows how to recognize various stages of SPB attack, how to decide if control is needed, and how to mark buffer strips for control crews.
- Responsible Winter Storage of Pesticides and Fertilizers
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This publication explains the importance of properly storing pesticides and fertilizers.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Tree Risk Management and Hazard Assessment: A General Overview
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Management of urban forests includes maintenance, protection and prevention of problems. It denotes expertise at the organism level, and fimiliarity and knowledge of social systems.
- 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.
- 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.
- Marketing and Selling Your Timber
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Your forest may be more valuable than you know. This publication outlines points to consider when marketing/selling your timber.
- Stocking Sportfishing Ponds
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Because proper initial stocking of new or innovated sportfishing ponds produces the maximum number and weight of harvestable fish, it is one of the best management tools available to fish pond owners. Using a combination of recommended species, appropriat...
