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- BRANCHING OUT: The North Carolina Forest Stewardship Activity Guide
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Added: October 06, 2004
Rating: Votes: 18 Rate ItBranching Out is your guide for helping youth appreciate and understand our forest and natural surroundings. Easy to follow classroom and outdoor activities link youth to the forest. Soil and water, wildlife, trees, recreation and natural beauty are the topic areas used to develop the concept of stewardship.
- Working Forest Conservation Easements
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A Working Forest Conservation Easement, like a conventional conservation easement, is a legal agreement between a``landowner and a nonprofit conservation organization or governmental entity that``permanently limits the uses of the land in order to protect specified conservation values.
- Measuring Standing Trees and Logs
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Virginia's guide to measuring existing stands of trees and or logs.
- Why Leaves Change Color
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Added: March 29, 2004
Rating: Votes: 27 Rate ItA good explaination of this wonderful event that takes place every fall.
- Selecting and Shipping Samples To Help Determine Cause of Fish Kills
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A guide to fish kills.
- Measuring Standing Sawtimber
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Added: March 29, 2004
Rating: Votes: 19 Rate It - Coyote Control in the Eastern United States BROKEN
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Coyote Control in the Eastern United States
- Fertilizing Pine Plantations
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Fertilization of pine plantations in the South has increased dramatically with over 1,000,000 acres fertilized in 1997 alone. Fertilization is used to correct inherent site nutrient deficiencies such a limited phosphorus on wet flatwoods sites and on some upland coastal plain sites, to boost growth of established plantations, and to replace nutrients removed in pine straw harvests.
- Thinning Pine Stands for Top Returns
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It generally takes from 30 to 40 years to grow a stand of pine sawtimber to economic maturity. However, it is usually necessary to cut some of the trees before the stand reaches maturity. Cuttings made in immature stands to stimulate the growth of the remaining trees and thereby improve the yield of the stand are called thinnings.
- 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.
- First, see a forester
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More than 60 percent of North Carolina is forested, but much of this valuable resource is not actively``managed. Properly managed forests can generate extra money from the sale of timber products; improve wildlife habitat, aesthetics, recreation, and``water quality; and increase land value. By seeking the assistance of a professional forester, you can maximize``the return on your forestlands.
- Fertilizing Honeysuckle For Deer
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Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica) is a woody evergreen vine that is very nutritious for deer. It can constitute a major portion of the seasonal diet and in some cases the year-round diet of white-tailed deer in the Southeast. The leaves and seeds also are eaten by cottontail rabbits, northern bobwhites, and eastern wild turkeys.
- Cool-Season Food Plots For Deer
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Would you like to improve your chances of harvesting more deer and turkey during the hunting season? You might improve your hunting success by providing deer with high-quality winter food plots. In most cases, your turkeys will readily use these plots, too.
- Storing, Handling, and Planting Southern Pine Seedlings
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Pine seedlings should also carry this label. They are fragile. Many landowners spend large sums of money on site preparation and planting of their pine seedlings, only to see many of their seedlings fail to survive. There can, of course, be many causes for a low survival rate. However, among the most common causes are improper handling and planting. The following information is provided to assist you in properly caring for pine seedlings in your planting operation.
- Southern Pine Beetle
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Added: September 25, 2003
Rating: Votes: 26 Rate ItSouthern pine beetle (SPB) is a serious pest of yellow pines, including loblolly, shortleaf and Virginia pines.
- Natural and Artificial Regeneration of Loblolly Pine
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Landowners frequently ask professional foresters how to manage their timberlands. The answers they get always vary according to the different situations and purposes of the landowners. Management begins with regeneration. Unfortunately, many acres harvested in Alabama are not regenerated adequately by natural means, by planting, or by seeding.
- 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.
- Growing Shiitake Mushrooms
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Added: September 25, 2003
Rating: Votes: 16 Rate ItShiitake is an edible mushroom that grows on wood from a variety of tree species. Due to its ease of cultivation and its pungent flavor, Shiitake is being considered as an``alternative crop in many areas of the United States.
- A Key to Common Trees of Alabama
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Added: September 25, 2003
Rating: Votes: 26 Rate ItThis key can help you easily identify any of the 66 most common trees found in Alabama. Keys such as this one, which is based on a series of choices between two statements, are called dichotomous keys. This key was designed for use during the growing season. Leaf and bark characteristics are the primary features used for identifying trees.
- Managing Your Timberland
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Added: September 24, 2003
Rating: Votes: 17 Rate ItForestland 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.
- Dimensional Changes in Wood
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From early Paleolithic times, wood has been one of``the most important raw materials for making everything``from furniture to weapons to art. The availability``of metal tools about 5000 BC gave Egyptians the ability to``improve the art of cutting veneer pieces to use in construction``of various products. Although wood uses and processing``techniques have been developing for millennia, the science of``wood technology is relatively new.
- Forest Pests of North America: Integrated Pest Management CD
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Added: April 02, 2003
Rating: Votes: 15 Rate ItThree Volume Set - 100 images per Volume in Kodak Photo CD format. One hundred and fifty forest disease and one hundred and fifty forest insect images.
- Selection and Care of Christmas Trees for the Home
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Live Christmas trees have been brought into homes and decorated``during the holiday season for more than 500 years. Each year, more``than 33 million live Christmas trees are used in households across``the United States. Live Christmas trees have an attractiveness,``fragrance, and tradition that cannot be matched with artificial``substitutes.
- Natural Resource Enterprises: A Checklist of Considerations for Landowners
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Added: November 11, 2002
Rating: Votes: 27 Rate ItThis checklist and accompanying explanations should be helpful to landowners in making decisions before they initiate and make investments in such an enterprise.
- Land Planner's Environmental Handbook
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Technical reference manual brings together technical information from published texts, reports, and manuals as well as hindsight dramatization of many of the negative impacts of the nation's past and present land use planning efforts. Most of the nation's pressing environmental issues are covered, including landfilling, incineration, composting, leaking underground tanks, AIDS, radon, Lyme disease, medical waste, ocean pollution, and wildlife protection.
- Ecologically Based Municipal Land Use Planning
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The solution to the urban sprawl is not to be found in more legislation, rules, and regulation, says Honachefsky, but in local communities and how they develop their municipal master plans. His strategies include restoring the municipal master plan as the dominant planning document, incorporating recent scientific research studies, applying geographic information systems, and designating the protection of the community's ecological infrastructure as the premier priority
- Estate Planning Opportunities and Strategies for Private Forest Landowners
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The purpose of this book is to educate readers about the tax and property law issues involved in planning the transfer of property after death. It is not intended to be and should not be considered as legal advice to those who read it.
- The Global Positioning System
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GPS is a satellite-based radio navigation system. Users anywhere``on the surface of the earth (or in space around the earth)``with a GPS receiver can determine their geographic position``in latitude (north-south), longitude (east-west), and elevation.
- Wood Explorer
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an Internet virtual library; The Wood Explorer CD contains the largest directory of over 1,600 commercial wood species
- Smart Communities Network - Creating Energy Smart Communities
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We're finding that more and more cities, villages, neighborhoods and regions are using sustainable development as a guiding principle not only for near-term projects, but also for planning their futures.As your community makes its development decisions with all of the attendant impacts on transportation patterns, building efficiency, industrial productivity and so on you affect national energy security, as well as the nation's economic and environmental health.
