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- The Shrinking and Swelling of Wood and Its Effect on Furniture
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The dimensional changes that accompany the shrinking and swelling of wood are major sources of both visual and structural problems in furniture.
- Spanish Association of Arboriculture
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Association of people who love the trees
- South Carolina Forestry Assocation Teacher's Corner
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This page provides links to various programs and resources for the classroom.
- Selling Walnut Timber
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Black walnut requires and deserves attention if maximum returns are to be earned. For many woodland owners, the opportunity to sell timber comes only once or twice during a lifetime. For those fortunate enough to own a well-managed woodland, timber can be harvested periodically. In either case, the success or failure of a timber sale usually will depend on the attitude and knowledge of the seller.
- Identify, Prevent, and Control Oak Wilt
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Oak wilt is an aggressive disease that affects many species of oak (Quercus spp.). It is one of the most serious tree diseases in the eastern United States, killing thousands of oaks each year in forests, woodlots, and home landscapes.
- Guidelines for Preparing a Timber Sale Contract
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The legal consequences resulting from cutting, purchasing and selling timber should be of major concern to all parties involved in a timber sale. Most any forestry professional will recommend that you always use a timber sale contract...and you should customize every contract around a sale's unique conditions.
- 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.
- Shaping Roads and Trails
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Water running down forest roads and trails can erode surfaces, moving soil and other pollutants into nearby lakes, wetlands, and streams. One way to prevent this is to shape road surfaces so water runs off of them into nearby vegetation, rather than pooling or flowing along the surface. This publication discusses options for road shaping.
- Georgia State and Private Forestry Fact Sheet
- 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.
- Endangered Plant Species of the Coastal Plain of Georgia
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Added: October 20, 2008The Endangered Species Act helps protect plants and animals in danger of extinction. Every federal agency and any activity or program funded, authorized or carried-out, such as the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) pesticide labelling program, must
- Cypress Management: A Forgotten Opportunity
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A Forestry Report by the USDA Forest Service on managing both pond and bald cypress.
- Constructing Wetlands During Reclamation to Improve Wildlife Habitat
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The purpose of this publication is to provide guidelines for use by mine operators in constructing wetlands on surface coal mines.
- Basic Estate Planning
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This publication explains the need for and describes the process of estate planning.
- Aquatic Weed Management in Citrus Canals and Ditches
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Aquatic plants are necessary for maintaining the balance of nature and offering food, protection, oxygen, and shelter to aquatic species. One reality of growing citrus in Florida flatwoods areas is that nearly every citrus grower will sooner or later experience aquatic weed control problems. Maintaining a balance in the aquatic system while sustaining crop success and avoiding loss of income can be a challenge. Over-abundant aquatic weed growth can also lower drainage rates following heavy rains, resulting in severe root pruning, increased disease incidence, and fruit drop. Therefore management of aquatic vegetation species should be an essential component of the overall water management strategy for most Flatwoods citrus groves.
- Identified Benefits of Community Trees and Forests
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Added: October 31, 2008Community trees and forests are valuable. To the 75% of the United States population that now live in urban and suburban areas, trees provide many goods and services. Values are realized by the people that own the trees, by people nearby, and by society.
- Forests and Our Environment
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This publication discusses the vital role that forests play in our lives.
- A Landowners Guide to Working with Recreationists
- Water Table Measurement and Monitoring for Flatwoods Citrus
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How to properly measure and manage the water table in flatwood citrus groves
- Evaluation and Management of Storm-Damaged Timber
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Homeowners often ask what can be done to save damaged shade and ornamental trees and forest landowners are interested in how to assess the damage to their timber. In addition to the direct damage caused by the wind, insects and fungi often cause additional losses.
- Commercial Hardwood and Pine Tree Crops
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Plantations of commercial hardwood and pine tree crops need proper nutrition for best growth and health. The native soils of Virginia are generally fertile enough to meet the nutrient demands of trees; however, there are exceptions.
- 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
- Defining Soil Compaction: Sites & Trees
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Added: November 05, 2008The health and structure of trees are reflections of soil health. The ecological processes which govern tree survival and growth are concentrated around the soil/root interface. As soils, and associated resources change, tree systems must change to effectively utilize and tolerate changing resources quantities and qualities, as well as the physical space available. Soil compaction is a major tree-limiting feature of community forest managers and arborists.
- Ecology & Biodiversity
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The Virtual Library of Ecology and Biodiversity division of The Virtual Library Project specializes in reviewing internet information sources pertaining to ecology and biodiversity based on their educational value.
- Why You Might Want Your Next Christmas Tree to be a Virginia Pine
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Not all Christmas trees are alike. Each type of tree has its own set of characteristics. Virginia Pine is a tree that will last longer than most other trees and allows you to extend the time you can display it.
- Trees for Wildlife
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This publication describes the management practices that Tennessee landowners should consider when managing their woodlots for wildlife and timber.
- The East Texas Pine Straw web site
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The mission of this site is two-fold. First it serves to enhance public awareness and perception to the uses and benefits of pine straw as a ground cover mulch. Second, the East Texas Pine Straw web site provides educational, networking, and informational opportunities about a promising new enterprise in Texas that can potentially provide supplemental income to Texas forestland owners during the years when no income will be received from a timber harvest.
- 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.
- Tax Deductions and Depreciation
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Landowners who can demonstrate a profit motive``can deduct 1) capital costs (which form the cost``basis of the property); 2) currently deductible``expenditures for man agement and protection; 3)``costs of sale.``expenses can be recovered when the timber is sold.
- Southern Pine Beetle
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Added: April 06, 2000Using this directory will enable you to become``better informed, better educated, and better equipped through the latest information on SPB biology, management and research.
