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Climate Changes Impacts on the Hydrology and Productivity of a Pine Plantation

This study examines the effects of future climate changes on drainage and forest productivity.

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Why Leaves Change Color
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Added: July 26, 2008

If you are lucky, you live in one of those parts of the world where Nature has one last fling before settling down into winter's sleep. In those lucky places, as days shorten and temperatures become crisp, the quiet green palette of summer foliage is transformed into the vivid autumn palette of reds, oranges, golds, and browns before the leaves fall off the trees. On special years, the colors are truly breathtaking.

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Use of Treated Wood

This article provides a listing of questions and answers that are designed to provide greater insight into the proper use and benefits of treated wood.

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Tree Growth Rate Table: Annual Percentage Growth

Trees grow in diameter every year. From the farthest reach of the woody roots to the tips of the twigs, trees expand in girth. This annual growth increment allows trees to respond to changing environmental conditions and react to injuries. The ability of

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Things to consider to repair or replace storm-damaged yard trees

When a storm strikes, clearing damaged trees and branches is the first response, but the care you give your trees before and after a storm can be the key to their survival or loss. This fact sheet summarizes some key points to consider in assessing and repairing damaged trees and replacing those that must be removed. Also listed are people to call for advice or assistance and publications available in your area that can provide more detailed information.

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Shaping Virginia Pine Christmas Trees

One of the more important cultural practices in growing quality Virginia pine Christmas trees is shaping. Shaping is any process which removes limbs, branches, or new growth with the purpose of improving overall tree quality.

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Selecting Preservative Treated Wood

This bulletin will provide the purchaser of treated wood with the information necessary to select treated wood with a special emphasis on landscape timbers.

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Power Lines and Trees

This publication discusses the dangers of trees growing too close to power lines and methods for managing the problem.

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Kiln Drying Lumber: Some "Whys" and "Hows"

For almost all uses, wood must be dried before it can be used effectively. Dry kilns are excellent means of controlling the drying process to ensure greatest success with the most economy.

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Soil Compaction Impacts on Tree Roots
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Added: October 31, 2008

Compaction impacts trees in many ways. Generally, compaction associated physiological dysfunctions cause systemic damage and decline, as well as failures in dealing with additional environ- mental changes. Physical / mechanical constraints negatively modify responses in the tree resulting in inefficient use of essential resources. The symptoms we see in trees under compacted soil conditions have causes stemming from disruptions of the internal sense, communication, and response process.

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Fertilizer Application Best Management Practices for Citrus Grove Workers

Details how to analyze for best fertilization application/use, safety, essential elements information, and possible environmental issues. Sections include quizzes over given information.

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Control of Shoot-root Balance in Trees

This publication is a synthesis of the tree growth regulation and correlation literature. General processes and systems presented here represent educational models which professionals can use to better appreciate and understand basic tree functions.

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USDA Forest Service

This is the USDA Forest Service homepage and it contains valuable links to the latest foresty related news stories as well as other informative sites.

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Species for Christmas Tree Planting in Virginia

Christmas tree production in Virginia has steadily increased over the last several years. Favorable climate, soils, and proximity to markets place Virginia growers in a highly desirable marketing situation. Selection of the proper species, however, is important.

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Reducing Erosion and Runoff

This publication explains how controlling erosion can make a significant contribution to the control of water pollution, along with providing ways to detect and reduce erosion and runoff.

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Managing Your Timberland
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Added: September 24, 2003

Forestland owners always face a variety of alternatives regarding managemen of their lands. Each landowner tends to be unique in the way he or she chooses to manage. Some manage intensively for maximum production of the timber resource. Others manage for a variety of benefits in addition to timber maximization, such as production of wildlife habitat or aesthetics. Some do not manage at all.

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Tree Crops for Marginal Farmland: Christmas Trees With A Financial Analysis

This publication describes the most effective practices used to grow Christmas trees in the southern United States and the cost of those practices. It includes a financial analysis with typical costs and expected returns.

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Black-spored Quillwort (Isoetes melanospora)
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Added: October 20, 2008

Aquatic plant 3-8 centimeters (1.2-3.2in) tall that reproduces by spores. Has five to 10 pointed, stiff and needle-like leaves, about 5-7 centimeters (2-2.8 in) long and 1 millimeter (0.04 in) wide. Leaves have light green tops that yellow toward the base...

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Plant the Right Tree in the Right Place
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Added: July 19, 2008

Trees planted in the wrong place can cause property damage and become a detriment rather than an asset. Planning the location and species of a tree will ensure that the tree will be an asset and not grow into a hazard or a nuisance.

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Littleleaf Disease on Loblolly Pine: Symptom Outline

Littleleaf disease is a soil, pathogen, and tree management syndrome. Littleleaf can destroy pockets of mature and over-mature loblolly pines (Pinus taeda) over a period of 5-15 years.

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Capital District Community Gardens

Welcome to Capital District Community Gardens (CDCG) of upstate New York. Established in 1972, CDCG is a private non-profit community service organization that has been helping residents of Albany, Rensselaer, and Schenectady Counties improve their neighborhoods through community gardening and urban greening programs for more than 25 years

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Fungicide Injection to Control Dutch Elm Disease: Understanding the Options

In some situations, injecting trees with fungicides is an effective treatment for the management of Dutch elm disease (DED). Several injection products are on the market, and various means of application are recommended. Each product and method has pros and cons. The "best" product depends on the individual tree its current condition, the objectives of the treatment, and the resources available.

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Evacuation Plan is More Than You May Think

suggested evacuation plans (due to fire, storm, etc) for families living in wooded areas

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Tree Roots in Urban Landscapes

The top of the tree is easy to see, thus any problems there are quickly noted. But did you know that much of the tree decline you see above ground is due to problems originating below ground?

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Forest and Insects Disease Leaflets, Alphabetic List

Forest and Insects Disease Leaflets, Alphabetic List.

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Your Florida Dooryard Citrus Guide - Pruning

Although large machines prune closely planted trees in commercial citrus groves on a regular basis, dooryard citrus need not be pruned at all. There are exceptions: aesthetic purposes, to prevent shading of other plants, to prevent soilborne diseases, to remove cold-damaged limbs, and to rejuvenate old trees with reduced vigor, twig and small branch dieback, and small fruit.

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Arson Alert Association

brochure for the AAA, a nonprofit group dedicated to ending wildland arson, encouraging the public to turn over arsonists to the police

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Wood Fuel for Heating
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Added: February 26, 2008

The heating value of properly prepared fuel wood compares favorably with other fuels. When you can get fuel wood from a woodland through timber-stand improvement, the woodland also benefits.

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Wildlife Plantings And Practices

Three of the most important requirements for game and non-game wildlife are food, water, and shelter. Increasing or decreasing wildlife populations is primarily a matter of altering these basic requirements.

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Using Herbicides Safely and Herbicide Toxicity

Herbicide accidents in Florida have affected both man and the environment. Almost all herbicide accidents have been due to carelessness and could have been prevented by reading and following the label instructions given on the herbicide container.

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