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- Bottomland Hardwood Management: Species/Site Relationships
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Some of the most demanding tasks of managing forestlands involve the management and regeneration of desirable trees on different sites. This is true for all species but is especially true for hardwoods.
- Wood Identification for Hardwood and Softwood Species Native to Tennessee
- Understanding and Minimizing Veneer Checking on Furniture Panels
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Added: February 12, 2008This report presents a brief explanation of the causes of veneer checks, and discusses some of the major factors which have been shown to correlate with veneer checking.
- Considering Clearcutting CRP Trees and Converting Land Use to Annual Crops
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Concern has been expressed that Conservation Reserve Program tree acres will be converted for annual crop production when CRP contracts expire.
- Planting and Care of Fine Hardwood Seedlings
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Added: October 20, 2008This brochure discusses the most important topics to consider in establishing a plantation of healthy fast-growing hardwoods.
- A Simple Timber Cruising Template
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Added: March 18, 2008Here is a handy template that can help you inventory your forest. The spreadsheet was designed by forester Bruce Springer and is a quick and easy way to generate general forest inventory data. It was created with simplicity in mind and can be used by either a tree owner or a forester.
- Strip Disking and Other Valuable Bobwhite Quail Management Techniques
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In the South, habitats, whether open fields or wooded areas, that are allowed to grow up longer than three to four years without some type of soil or vegetative disturbance quickly grow out of good bobwhite habitat. Typically, management practices for open fields include prescribed burning annually or every two years, bush-hogging, disking, planting agricultural crops, and protection of some areas that grow up into brushy escape cover.
- Best Management Practices
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Most of the BMPs in this manual address the protection of water quality or the requirements of Section 404 (dredge and fill) of the Clean Water Act. The BMPs in this manual have been designed to be consistent with the management measures as described in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) publication entitled Guidance Specifying Management Measures for Sources of Non-Point Pollution in Coastal Waters, January 1993.
- Goldline Darter (Percina aurolineata)
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Goldline darters are slender, medium-sized fish about 3 inches long (7.6 cm) that exhibit sexual and seasonal differences in coloration. In the spring and early summer, males have numerous bright yellow areas in the fins, along the upper parts of the body.
- Pine Wilt: A Fatal Disease of Exotic Pines In the Midwest
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This bulletin explains how pine wilt is caused, how it spreads in the landscape, and measures that can be taken to manage the disease.
- Animal Waste Management and the Environment:
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Animal waste includes livestock and poultry manure, bedding and litter, plus such things as dairy parlor waste water, feedlot runoff, silage juices from trench silos and even wasted feed. These wastes can affect water quality if proper practices are not followed. These protective practices are very often referred to as best management practices (BMPs) and includes facilities or structures, management practices or vegetative cover.
- Forest Taxation
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Assuring that Non-Industrial Forest Landowners Have Access to the Best Available Information on Forest Related Tax Law.
- Control of Phytophthora Root Rot in Fraser Fir Christmas Trees BROKEN
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Phytophthora root rot is the only serious disease of Fraser fir Christmas trees in western North Carolina. It is caused by a fungus that inhabits the soil and infects many woody plants through the roots. It can lie dormant in the soil for several years waiting for a susceptible host such as Fraser fir and the right environmental conditions, including warm soil temperatures (above 54 degrees F.) and soils saturated with water to infect plant roots.
- Verticillium Wilt of Shade Trees
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Verticillium wilt is a serious vascular wilt disease that affects a broad array of shade tree species. This publication describes the symptoms of this disease, along with methods of controlling it.
- How to Identify Your Property Boundaries
- Disaster Relief: Safety Precautions With Snakes
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After a flood, storms, or hurricane, snakes are forced into places where they usually are not found. This publication provides a few precautions that should be taken in areas where poisonous snakes are common.
- Forest Stewardship: Timber Harvesting: An Essential Management Tool
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This bulletin discusses the benefits of harvesting timber and its importance in woodland stewardship.
- Dead Wood for Wildlife in the Wild Garden
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We humans think of dead things as useless. But in the wild world, many dead things have just begun to be valuable. Dead wood is an example. You can use it in woodpiles for wildlife. I like a woodpile outside a window under a tree.
- Forest Products Measurements and Values
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Added: February 16, 2008This publication explains common forest products measures used in Tennessee and how to estimate the current market value.
- Managing Your East Texas Forest
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Managing pine forest for the production of pine straw is a promising new enterprise in East Texas that can potentially provide substantial``supplemental income to Texas forestland owners. Use of pine straw as a ground cover mulch in landscaping around trees and in flowerbeds has recently seen rising popularity in Texas because it is clean, attractive, and provides exceptional value for most landscaping situations.
- Kentucky's Timber Harvesting BMP Implementation Study: Preliminary Results
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This publication contains the preliminary results of a study performed to provide information on non-point source pollution issues as they relate to timber harvesting operations in Kentucky.
- Aquatic Weed Identification and Control: Pondweed and Bladderwort BROKEN
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This publication describes pondweed and bladderwort, and it provides information on treatments that may be used to control the two aquatic weeds.
- Flatwoods Citrus Best Management Practice: Riser-Board Structures
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Added: November 16, 2011details the use of riser-boards to control water table levels and surface water levels in drainage and irrigation ditches
- Phosphorus in Mississippi Soils
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Phosphorus management and nutrition have both economic and environmental implications. This publication examines phosphorus in soils, plant uptake, soil fertility and testing, and management of phosphorus fertilizers.
- Green Certification and the Future of Family Forests
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Forest certification is a hot topic; it is difficult to pick up a forestry publication without reading about it. Most writers view it positively and think America's forests "need" certification. This is cause for concern because it is a huge assumption. It also happens to be wrong.
- U.S. Timber Production, Trade, Consumption, and Price Statistics: 1965-1997
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This report presents statistical information on production, trade, consumption, and prices of forest products in the United States.
- Calibrating Hand-Held and Backpack Sprayers for Applying Pesticides
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This article is a fantastic guide for using hand-held backpack sprayers whics are inexpensive tools used to apply pesticides on small acreage.
- Help Frogs Survive the Winter
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With the arrival of chilly fall nights, I've been getting calls from ornamental pond owners who are wondering what to do for their frogs and turtles during winter.
- Georgia's Wetlands: 200 Years of Change
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The ecological, biological and social values of wetlands are being altered rapidly in today's world. Over the past two centuries wetlands have been changed greatly. Through development and land-use changes, wetlands will continue to be altered. Large numb...
- Community Forestry Grants
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Added: November 15, 2007Urban and Community Forestry Grants ``Program Guidelines.
