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- Producing and Marketing Wild Simulated Ginseng in Forest and Agroforestry Systems
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Within this publication, a system of growing ginseng called wild simulated ginseng production will be described. Using this production system, landowners may establish naturalized populations of wild American ginseng on the forest floor in their privately-owned woodlands.
- 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.
- Backburning as an Alternative to Traditional Pre-Commercial Thinning
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Two studies--at the USDA Forestry Science Laboratories in Macon, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina--suggest that the cost of pre-commercial thinning can be reduced with low-intensity prescribed burning.
- Tree Decay: An Expanded Concept
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The purpose of this publication is to clarify further the tree decay concept that expands the classical concept to include the orderly response of the tree to wounding and infection-compartmentalization-and the orderly infection of wounds by many microorganisms-successions.
- Storms Over the Urban Forest
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Planning, Responding, and Regreening-- ``A community Guide to Natural Disaster Relief
- SCFC- Before You Sell Your Timber
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Before you sell your timber consider these suggestions.
- Forest Stewardship: Estate Planning
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This bulletin outlines the procedures necessary to create an estate plan that will ensure the orderly transfer of your cherished forest land intact and with a minimum tax burden.
- Distance Diagnostics thru Digital Imaging
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- Direct Control Methods for the Southern Pine Beetle
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This handbook describes currently recommended direct control practices. These measures will minimize timber losses during outbreak periods.
- Coyote Control in the Eastern United States BROKEN
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Coyote Control in the Eastern United States
- 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.
- Commercial Christmas Tree Crops
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Christmas trees, like any other crop, require balanced nutrition for best health and growth. Christmas trees are unique among most crops, though, since their value is based on their aesthetic quality and not their biomass yield. In order to assure balanced nutrition, it is necessary to insure that the soil contains enough available nutrients to satisfy the trees' demands.
- Skunk Management
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This publication offers solutions to make lawn/landscape unattractive to skunks.
- Urban Forestry Center
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One of New Hampshires most unique resources is not found on a majestic mountain top... or in the states many lakes, rivers, and streams... or even within its wooded forests. Its actually located on a quiet road on the outskirts of Portsmouth, just waiting to be discovered by anyone who values New Hampshires woodlands and natural resources.
- Urban forest Health Needs Assessment Survey
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The Urban Forest Health Needs Assessment Survey was designed to query urban forestry professionals and learn about their attitudes toward the general issue of urban forest health, identify specific training and information needs in the areas of urban tree health management, and discover preferences in educational outreach methods.
- Your Florida Dooryard Citrus Guide - Pruning
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Guide for the non-mechanical pruning of Dooryard Citrus
- Virginia Tech Pesticide Programs
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This link is to the Virginia Tech Pesticide Programs page. It provides educational opportunities and information for people who use pesticides as part of their daily lives, consumers with questions, and students.
- Thinning Pine Stands for Top Returns
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It generally takes from 30 to 40 years to grow a stand of pine sawtimber to economic maturity. However, it is usually necessary to cut some of the trees before the stand reaches maturity. Cuttings made in immature stands to stimulate the growth of the remaining trees and thereby improve the yield of the stand are called thinnings.
- Thanksgiving: A Forest Feast
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Forests have been, and remain, a critical cultural and economic foundation for this nation. Our close relationship with the forests that surround us can be demonstrated by the struggle and success of early European settlers. Thanksgiving is a holiday cele...
- South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
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The Department develops and implements policies and programs for the conservation, management, utilization and protection of the state's natural resources based upon scientifically sound resource management, assessment and monitoring, applied research, technology transfer, comprehensive planning, public education, technical assistance and constituent involvement.
- Quality Deer Management: Guidelines for Implementation
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Traditionally, deer management has concentrated on increasing the deer population by protecting the antlerless segment, and focusing on quantity. This publication discusses the shift in management efforts to now focus on quality.
- Planting and Managing Switchgrass for Forage, Wildlife, and Conservation
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The upright growth provides wildlife some overhead cover for protection, quality nest sites, and free movement which facilitates food searching. In established stands, there is little disease problem and no insect pests. Since it is a perennial, properly managed switchgrass should never need to be replanted.
- Planning Tree Windbreaks in Missouri
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Your need for a windbreak is measured by the benefits you can receive from one. The properly placed windbreak also serves as an effective snow barrier and can improve the working conditions in farmstead areas where you perform winter chores.
- Pine Diseases in Kansas: Tip Blight, Dothistroma Needle Blight, and Pine Wilt
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This publication discusses various diseases for the purpose of helping the grower identify the problem and provide current control recommendations.
- 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).
- Introduction to Growing Christmas Trees in Virginia
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Each year many landowners in Virginia consider Christmas tree farming as an alternative enterprise for their unused open land. This publication provides a broad overview of Christmas tree production in Virginia.
- Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission
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On November 3, 1998, Florida voters approved a revision to the Florida Constitution that establishes a new state agency: the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWCC). This new agency will have jurisdiction over all terrestrial wildlife as well as aquatic wildlife -- both freshwater and saltwater.
- Basic Ecological Renovation: Problems and Activities
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In ecological renovation, assessment is a critical first step. Once the assessment has been properly completed, a renovation program can be designed to restart, accelerate, or broaden ecological processes, enrich or maintain biological units, and conserve...
- 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.
- Southern Forestry Extension Service
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The home page of the Southern Forestry Extension Service.
