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- Tennessee Division of Forestry
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The Tennessee Department of Agriculture serves Tennesseans in many ways. It protects forest lands from fire, educates loggers and landowners about integrating environmental protection into their timber harvesting operations and controls major insect outbreaks. TDA assists landowners in planning the management of their lands and advises them about marketing their timber
- Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Forestry
- National Project Learning Tree (PLT) Homepage
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PLT is an award-winning, interdisciplinary environmental education program for educators working with students in PreK through grade 12. PLT helps students gain awareness and knowledge of the natural and built environment, their place within it, as well as their responsibility for it.
- Management of Forested Landscapes: Simulations of three alternatives
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This article compares simulated consequences of three different opinions as if each were imposed on the same forested landscape in the southern Applalachian Mountains. One set of opinions would stop all harvest of timber, another would impose traditional forestry practices, and the third would impose landscape forestry.
- Georgia Community Greenspace Program
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Senate Bill 399 (As Passed) establishes a framework within which developed and rapidly developing counties, and their municipalities, can preserve community greenspace. The bill became effective on July 1, 2000. For rulemaking purposes it became effective on April 16, 2000 when Governor Barnes signed it into law. It promotes the adoption, by such counties and cities, of policies and rules which will enable them to preserve at least 20 percent of their land
- Forest Management Planning
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Forest management planning is a means of allowing you to practice good stewardship of your property and its resources. The planning helps you identify what resources and opportunities are available on your property and what you would like to realize from your propery in terms of financial gain and long-term enjoyment.
- Forest History Society
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The Forest History Society links the past to the future by identifying, collecting, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating information on the history of interactions between people, forests, and their related resources - timber, water, soil, forage, fish and wildlife, recreation, and scenic or spiritual values.
- Birds Survive the Snow
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What do little ground-feeding birds do when snow blankets the ground? They have a hard time finding food. Some die, but the majority of them can make do in the right kind of wild garden.
- Pine Webworm
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Pines grown for Christmas trees have a lower market value and are sometimes difficult to sell when they contain unsightly webworm nests. Infestations on ornamental pines around homes detract from the beauty of the trees.
- Identification of Common Trees of Iowa
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Added: July 19, 2008This interactive key was developed to help identify the most common trees in Iowa. The key is based on vegetative characteristics such as leaves, fruits, and bark. It is not a complete key. It does not include all trees grown in Iowa
- Quality Drying of Hardwood Lumber
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Easy to use tools to improve hardwood lumber drying operations
- SCFC-Timber Marketing Assistance
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Added: November 15, 2000Assistance includes advise concerning the marketing of forest products, the advantage of competitive bids, providing buyers list, sample sales announcement forms, and sample contract forms.
- Standards - Forest Stewardship Council
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Fscstandards.org is your gateway to sites on the Internet for Forestry! Browse our resources or just try the search.
- Urban biodiversity, urban sustainable environment
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Welcome to the Belgian Clearing-House Mechanism, the portal site set up by Belgium to promote technical and scientific cooperation in the field of biodiversity and to provide information on matters related to the Convention on Biological Diversity.
- Marketing Specialty Forest Products
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This fact sheet outlines successful strategies for marketing SFPs.
- Introduction to the Snakes of Oklahoma
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This fact sheet introduces you to the biology of some of the snakes of Oklahoma and will provide a list of all known species in the state.
- Frequently Asked Questions About Timber Casualty Losses
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Generally this is a loss caused by a sudden, unexpected, and unusual event from natural or other external forces. It``is not a gradual or progressive loss, such as death caused by periods of low rainfall or natural competition. Examples``are losses from hurricanes, tornados, floods, plane crashes, wildfires, hail, ice storms, theft, etc.
- 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.
- Firewood for Home Heating
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The comfort of a wood fire on a cold night; the feeling of self-reliance that comes with cutting, splitting, and stacking a cord of wood; and a reduced conventional fuel bill have all been experienced by thousands of Virginia wood burners.
- Fertilizing Containerized Woody Ornamentals
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The use of containerized woody ornamentals for patios and specialized areas has become an important feature in residential landscape design. To ensure vigorous, healthy plants in these containers, a growing medium composed primarily of organic materials (pine bark, peat moss, etc.) mixed with coarse builder sand or perlite to ensure adequate drainage is recommended.
- 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.
- Collecting Insects Pinning and Labeling
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This publication describes ways of pinning and labeling various insects for display.
- Basic Estate Planning
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This publication explains the need for and describes the process of estate planning.
- 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.
- Invasive Species of Concern in Georgia
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It is provided by The Georgia cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey Program in The Bugwood Network as a means of providing accurate and timely information to Georgia residents about SOD issues and activities in Georgia.
- Woodlands Protection
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This publication discusses the importance of recognizing dangers to woodland health and suggests ways of protecting it.
