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- Urban Wildlife and Wildlife Gardening Books
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Books about urban wildlife and wild gardens in general.
- Trends in Working Forest Conservation Easement Language
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The easement comparison study identified purposes, restrictions, and forest management requirements of a national sample of WFCEs over 1,000 acres in size, and organized this data into relevant themes (water, technology and extraction, development, forest management, ecosystem and rare species, and recreation).
- Trees and Humankind: Cultural and Psychological Bindings
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Added: October 20, 2008To effectively educate people about trees and forests, natural resource managers must understand the beliefs and perceptions concerning trees and forests within different communities and cultures. The reverence and adoration of trees has a strong psychological and social foundation in most human cultures. The influence of trees and forests on cultural development can better prepare natural resource mangers to understand public and private attitudes and actions toward community trees and forests. Community natural resource management requires a heightened awareness of cultural contexts and psychological needs. Clearly understanding the human--tree relationship is essential for education, motivation, and social acceptance of community natural resource management messages. What has been the tie that binds humans and trees together?
- Track Identification of Common South Dakota Furbearers
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Track identification of cottontail rabbit, jackrabbit, squirrel, porcupine, beaver, mink, muskrat, river otter, weasel, raccoon, striped skunk, raccoon, striped skunk, badger, opossum, swift fox, red fox, coyote, bobcat, domestic dog, mountain lion, domestic cat
- 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...
- Silvicultural Systems
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A silvicultural system is a planned process designed to tend immature trees and establish new trees in a forest stand. The type of silvicultural system selected depends on many factors.
- Regenerating Southern Pine in Georgia
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Pine regeneration is neither a mystery nor hard to accomplish. It simply requires application of appropriate techniques and some advanced planning. Seldom can ``nature'' alone be relied upon to adequately regenerate a pine stand.
- Protecting Your Home From Forest Fires
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Thousands of people live in rural forested areas across the state, and although the setting is idyllic for much of the year, each spring and fall brings a period of little rain and the threat of wildfire. In order to live in Florida's forests, people must adapt to fire, too. By following these guidelines for building design and landscaping, individuals can help protect their homes during the next fire season.
- Mosquito Fish for the Wild Garden
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Some people worry that a backyard pond will be a source of mosquitoes. Pond owners often stock mosquito fish to reduce the likelihood that mosquitoes will use the pond to reproduce. Mosquito fish are tiny, about an inch long or less.
- Money CAN Grow on Trees
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This page contains a series of fact sheets designed to help you make the most of your West Virginia woodlands, with topics ranging from taxes to forest management.
- Marketing Your Timber: The Bidding Process
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Timber is a multi-million dollar business in Mississippi. Many landowners, however, do not receive the full value when they sell their timber, because selling timber properly is a complicated task.
- Heat Stroke in Trees
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Summer has provided a number of hot and dry weeks for people and trees. Many of the old, young, and soil-limited trees have been damaged. The combination of drought and harsh site conditions provided in parking lots, along streets, on open squares, and su...
- Grow CRP Trees to Financial Maturity
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What is your stand of Conservation Reserve Program pines worth?
- Frequently Used Forestry and Natural Resource Terms for Landowners of Oklahoma
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These pages provide definitions for terms that are frequently used in forestry and other natural resource management disciplines.
- 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.
- 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.
- Financial Maturity: A Guide To When Trees Should Be Harvested
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Financial maturity is the point in the life of the tree beyond which the expected value increase no longer equals or exceeds the net return which would be obtained if the tree were sold and the cash value were invested elsewhere. This publication discusses methods of determining financial maturity.
- Durability of Wood
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Added: October 25, 2008Some types of trees produce wood that is naturally resistant to decay. Wood may also be treated with preservatives for durability. This publication lists types of resistant wood and compares treatments. It also explains the reasons wood decays.
- 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.
- Aquaculture Development Plan
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The Aquaculture Development Commission was established by the Georgia General Assembly in 1988. The purpose of the Commission is to facilitate the development of the aquaculture industry in Georgia. This Development Plan represents one of the goals of the Commission.
- 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).
- Your Florida Dooryard Citrus Guide - Pruning
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Guide for the non-mechanical pruning of Dooryard Citrus
- 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.
- UNBC Growth and Yield
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Growth & yield at the University of Northern British Columbia.
- 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.
- Managing Wildlife Damage: Beavers
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Physical damage caused by beavers in the Southeast is estimated in the millions of dollars annually. Examples of this damage include timber and agricultural crop loss, damage to roads, septic systems and other property by flooding, and destruction of ornamental plants used in landscaping.
- Forest Management Cost-Share Assistance Programs
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This paper describes the current incentive programs offered by the United States Department of Agriculture.
- 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?
- 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.
- American Planning Association
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The need for planners to shape a community vision has never been greater. The American Planning Association brings together thousands of people � practicing planners, citizens, elected officials � committed to making great communities happen.
