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- Exotic Trees in the United States: Naturalized or Escaped form Cultivation
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Trees species brought into an area where they did not ecologically develop or where they are not considered "native," are exotic trees. Many exotic trees are grown for food, ornamental, aesthetic, or other specialized uses. Sometimes these exotic trees es...
- Eastern Gray Squirrel
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Added: September 17, 2008Management guide.
- 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.
- Applying Pesticides Safely
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Added: February 13, 2008Proper use of pesticides is essential for your safety and for that of the environment. And, pesticides must be properly used to be effective.
- Wood Decks: Practical Considerations from a Wood Perspective
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Considering problems that might occur is often more involved than dealing with those which actually occur. The vast majority of decks are actually quite satisfying and satisfactory.
- Selecting Wooded Home Sites
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Added: October 31, 2008Buying a new house or building your dream house is an exciting venture. The site you select and its trees will play an important part in the beauty and value of your home and the feeling of well-being it provides for you. Examine the trees on the site carefully and do not overlook the many values they provide.
- Woodlands Protection
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This publication discusses the importance of recognizing dangers to woodland health and suggests ways of protecting it.
- Wildfire Risk Assessment Guide for Homeowners in the Southern United States
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Martha Monroe, faculty member; Ludie Ehlers and Anna Behm, graduate students,``in the School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, contributed``repeated reviews, creative ideas, and a lot of hard work on a survey of over 170``southern fire professionals.``Forty fire prevention and management specialists, from nine states, responded to the survey``and an early draft of the Guidelines with valuable suggestions about format, use and content.
- 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.
- Urban Tree Care/Arboriculture
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Urban trees are vital to the quality of our lives! They shade our streets, enhance the appearance and value of our homes, and improve the environment -- just a few examples of the many significant benefits of urban trees.
- Urban and Community Forestry Achievements in 1998
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Fiscal Year (FY) 1998 produced advances in integrating ecological issues with growth management to improve the environment and the quality of life of urban residents. Computer modeling tools like American Forest's CITYGreen are becoming available to local units of government to assist with better land use planning and management.
- Skunk Management
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This publication offers solutions to make lawn/landscape unattractive to skunks.
- SCFC -Primary Wood Industries in South Carolina
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Primary Wood Processors in South Carolina- sawmills, veneer mills, pulp and paper mills.
- 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.
- Planning for Commercial Aquaculture
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Establishing a commercial aquacultural enterprise involves a four-step process that should be strictly followed by the prospective aquaculturist.
- Pests That Affect Human Health: Poisonous Spiders and Scorpions
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Spiders and scorpions have long been looked upon with fear as loathsome and venomous creatures, but in their natural habitats, spiders and scorpions are beneficial to humans.
- National Association of State Foresters (NASF)
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WHO WE ARE: The National Association of State Foresters is a non-profit organization that represents the directors of the State Forestry agencies from all fifty states, eight U.S. territories (American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, the Northern Marianas Islands, Palau, Puerto Rico, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands), and the District of Columbia.
- Management Practices for Enhancing Wildlife Habitat
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This publication briefly describes the most common habitat management practices for wildlife.
- 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.
- Littleleaf Disease on Loblolly Pine: A Selected Bibliography
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Because of loblolly pine's importance as a commercial timber species and its role as a landscape shade tree, this literature review was prepared to help the resource manager and plant health care specialist.
- Landscape Plantings for Energy Savings
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The high cost of home heating and air conditioning prompts efforts to reduce home energy consumption. Although outdoor landscape plants are pleasing in themselves, they can also play a large part in controlling energy use indoors.
- Forest Encyclopedia Network
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Added: September 17, 2008The Forest Encyclopedia Network consists of a growing number of encyclopedias covering different fields of forest science including Southern Fire Science, Southern Appalachian Forest Ecosystems, Southern Bioenergy Resources, Forest Environmental Threats, and the Southern Pine Beetle.
- 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.
- Conservation Easements
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An introduction to conservation easements.
- 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.
- What Happened to the Southern Pine Beetle?
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For the first time in 17 years, no infestations of the southern pine beetle were reported on state and private lands in East Texas in 1998.
- Pesticides and Aquatic Animals: A Guide to Reducing Impacts on Aquatic Systems
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The purpose of this publication is to serve as a general guide for those who may use pesticides in or around natural wetlands, lakes, ponds, rivers, and streams. In this publication, information is provided about the toxicity and safe use of pesticides that have the potential to enter aquatic systems.
- Summary of the Endangered Species Act of 1973
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The purposes of this Act are: to provide a means whereby the ecosystems upon which endangered and threatened species depend may be conserved; to provide a program for the conservation of such endangered and threatened species; and, to take such steps as may be appropriate to achieve the purposes of the international treaties and conventions of which the United States of America is a part.
- Newly Planted Trees: Strategies for Survival
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Hundreds of thousands of trees are planted along city and community streets and on other public property throughout the United States each year. Unfortunately, many of these trees, perhaps 50 percent or more, do not survive beyond one or two years.
- US Fish and Wildlife Endangered Species Page
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This is the home page for endangered species.
