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- Forestry BMP Implementation Costs for Virginia
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Forestry Best Management Practices (BMPs) are operational techniques used to protect water quality during timber harvesting operations. The implementation cost of BMPs is important to loggers, forest landowners, and the forest industry. This study provides an estimate of BMP implementation cost on a per harvested acre basis for the coastal plain, Piedmont, and mountains of Virginia.
- UNBC Growth and Yield
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Growth & yield at the University of Northern British Columbia.
- Tree Seedling Availability, Planting, and Initial Care
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This publication explains the advantages and disadvantages of different types of seedlings, identifies seedling sources, suggests planting alternatives, and explains initial care requirements.
- Tree Planting: Planning
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This publication discusses the steps for successful tree planting.
- Taxation of Capital Gains
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The Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 made many changes in the taxation of long-term capital gains for individuals. Individuals holding timber and timberland must be aware of the changes to minimize the income tax impact on sales of these assets.
- Recommended Trees for Urban Landscapes:Performers for Difficult Sites
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The following list of recommended trees includes a variety of plants that have demonstrated particular resistance to harsh growing conditions, diseases, and insects in North Carolina.
- Pruning shade trees in the landscape
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Pruning is a double-edged sword, either helping or hurting according to if, where, when, how, and why it is applied. When properly executed, a variety of benefits can occur. Benefits include reducing risk of branch and stem breakage, better clearance for vehicles and pedestrians, improved health and appearance, enhanced view, and increased flowering. When improperly performed, pruning can harm the tree's health, stability, and appearance and make matters worse.
- Pest Alert: Black-headed Pine Sawfly
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In early November 1999, several reports were received about pine defoliation in Upshur, Smith, Angelina, Cherokee, and Houston counties. It has been determined that an insect, the blackheaded pine sawfly (Neodiprion excitans), is causing the defoliation.
- Measuring Standing Trees
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Woodland owners often need to measure the merchantable board foot content (termed "volume") of certain trees in their woodland. This publication teaches you how.
- 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...
- 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.
- Be Firewise After the Storm
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Brochure warning against and aimed at preventing fire danger after a hurricane
- Insect Pests of Christmas Trees
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This site contains images and descriptions of various insect pests that affect christmas trees
- 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.
- Understanding Forest Certification
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Added: January 05, 2008 - South Carolina Forestry Commission Cost Share Programs of South Carolina
- Smooth Purple Coneflower (Echinacea laevigata)
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Perennial showy wildflower with erect, smooth, single stems 0.5-1 meter (1.6-3.3ft) tall that grow in clumps or patches. Grows from a thick fleshy, branched, black root. Leaves are simple, entire, and alternating along the stem. Leaf surfaces are smooth b...
- Selection and Care of Christmas Trees for the Home
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Live Christmas trees have been brought into homes and decorated``during the holiday season for more than 500 years. Each year, more``than 33 million live Christmas trees are used in households across``the United States. Live Christmas trees have an attractiveness,``fragrance, and tradition that cannot be matched with artificial``substitutes.
- SCFC- Before You Sell Your Timber
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Before you sell your timber consider these suggestions.
- Pruning deciduous Trees and Shrubs
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Pruning is essential for attractive, healthy trees and shrubs and improves the quality of flowers, fruit, and foliage. The best way to avoid difficult pruning jobs is to plan ahead; select plants that will fit available space after the plants have matured to their maximum size.
- New Growth Increments Sustain Stem Strength
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Added: October 31, 2008The strength of tree stems is dependent upon stem thickness, stiffness, and ability to react to changes in aspects toward gravity and wind events. Materials added farther from the stem center (neutral axis) has a much greater impact on strength (per unit weight), than closer to the center materials. This positioning effect is the mechanic strength advantage seen when comparing hollow tubes and solid rods of equal weight, made of the same material -- the tube can resist force more effectively than the rod without deformation. The geometry of where materials are deposited change the strength for resisting bending and twist (torsion).
- Insect Defoliators of Missouri Trees: Web Producers
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Many important species of caterpillars feed on the foliage of shade, ornamental and forest trees. In addition to their feeding damage, some of these defoliators also produce silken webbing, often covering the leaves and branches.
- Individual Loblolly Pine Volumes by Tree Diameter and Height
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Estimating the merchantable volume of an individual tree stem is critical to calculating tree product values. The table in this publication presents specific volumes for loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) in the lower Piedmont of Georgia.
- Fringed Champion (Silene polypetala)
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Showy, ground hugging perennial herb. Cultivars are found in the horticultural trade as a ground cover and used for color accents. Most stems recline along the soil surface and form new rootlets. Stems are hairy and can be up to 30 centimeters.
- Forest Products Laboratory
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Research concentrates on pulp and paper products, housing and structural uses of wood, wood preservation, wood and fungi identification, and finishing and restoration of wood products. In addition to traditional lines of research, FPL is responding to environmental pressures on the forest resource by using cutting-edge techniques to study recycling, develop environmentally friendly technology, and understand ecosystem-based forest management.
- Finishing Exterior Wood Surfaces
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The durability of an exterior finish is affected by the characteristics of the wood. This publication explains ways of acquiring a satisfactory finish.
- Economic Importance of Wildlife
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We will examine the problem of``determining the value of wildlife. We will review six different kinds of wildlife values and learn how some``values can be measured while others cannot.
- Best Management Practices--Soil & Water Conservation
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Forestry activities, particularly harvesting, can have serious consequences on soil and water quality. Any good forester is concerned about these impacts. Measures can be taken to preserve soil and water quality and to prevent their undue mixing.
- Trees and Ice Storms: Ice Storm Resistant Urban Trees
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Susceptibility ratings of species commonly planted in urban areas are presented for use in developing and maintaining healthy urban tree populations. Includes information about what causes ice storms.
- Understanding Pesticide Labels
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Research has shown that consumers find reading and understanding the label to be the most difficult aspect of applying pesticides safely. However, an understanding of the label information is essential before work begins.
