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- Georgia Conservation Use Tables of Value for 1996
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Rating: Votes: 17 Rate ItThis newsletter presents the 1996 Conservation Use tables of values as developed by the Georgia Department of Revenue (DOR).
- Fusiform Rust (Cronartium quercuum f. sp. fusiforme)
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Fusiform rust, is the most damaging disease of slash and loblolly pines throughout the southeastern United States. This disease causes stem, branch and trunk cankers (galls) to form on infected trees.
- Fringed Champion (Silene polypetala)
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Showy, ground hugging perennial herb. Cultivars are found in the horticultural trade as a ground cover and used for color accents. Most stems recline along the soil surface and form new rootlets. Stems are hairy and can be up to 30 centimeters.
- Freshwater Mussels On Georgia's List of Federally Protected Species
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Rating: Votes: 17 Rate ItOn April 16, 1993 eleven species of freshwater mussels were given protection under the Endangered Species Act. Nine of these mussel species have ranges that extend into northwest Georgia.
- Forests and Our Environment
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This publication discusses the vital role that forests play in our lives.
- Forestry Situation and Outlook with Implications for Agriculture, 1998
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Rating: Votes: 18 Rate ItIt is the objective that through this paper agricultural economists and others working in the forestry area will have the resource materials necessary to answer most questions concerning the major issues of the forestry situation and outlook in the United...
- Forest Stewardship: Wildlife
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This publication will provide the landowner with the basic knowledge necessary to begin wildlife stewardship on his or her property.
- Forest Stewardship: Planning Your Forest's Future
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If you are a forest landowner, you should have a management plan that organizes your personal objectives into a comprehensive strategy for attaining what you want from your woods.
- Forest Resources One-liners with Georgia Highlights
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The purpose of this publication is to provide short notes of useful things to know about forestry. This forest resource educational information is for use in various formats, such as: presentations by educators, public officials, communication specialists...
- Forest Pest Control Perspective
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Many of the pest problems in forests are present because of past forest practices. Exploitive harvesting has left nonmerchantable trees, brush, and nonstocked lands covered with weeds that prevent regeneration of desired species. Present forest managers are now adopting management methods that minimize the creation of new pest problems.
- Forest Health Issues Affecting CRP Plantations Ten years and Beyond
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This publication contains a list of the most common diseases and insects that cause damage to CRP plantations, including fusiform rust, annosus root, and pitch canker. Insects listed are five species of Pine Bark Beetles.
- Forest Ecology Map Pack
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Rating: Votes: 18 Rate ItMaps depicting the major soil areas of Georgia, major watersheds of Georgia, solar radiation zone analysis in Georgia, temperature zone analysis in Georgia, average days above 90F, average cooling degree days, average days below 32F, average heating degree...
- Forest Dependence and Community Well-Being: A Segmented Market Approach
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This article examines the relationship between forest dependence and county per capita income and poverty in rural Georgia.
- Flying Squirrels in the Wild Garden
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Everybody knows that blue birds nest in spring and summer. The rest of the year bird boxes are empty. Really? Ever thought of going out on a winter's day and checking your blue bird boxes? Carefully open the top and look inside.
- Florida Torreya (Torreya taxifolia)
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Small to medium-sized evergreen tree with a pungent, aromatic odor. Horizontal and spreading branches have drooping tips. Mature height is 10.6 meters (35 ft) and mature diameter is 18 centimeters (1.5 ft). Needles are stiff, pointed, about 2.5 - 4 centim...
- Flathead Borers on Hardwoods
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Flatheaded borers are some of the most common of wood borer in the United States. They occur throughout the United States and Canada. There are more than 150 species and varieties of flatheaded borers east of the Mississippi.
- Financial Maturity: A Guide To When Trees Should Be Harvested
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Financial maturity is the point in the life of the tree beyond which the expected value increase no longer equals or exceeds the net return which would be obtained if the tree were sold and the cash value were invested elsewhere. This publication discusses methods of determining financial maturity.
- Federally Protected Plants of Georgia
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Everyone is aware of the plight of endangered animals but few know about our endangered and threatened plants (Federally listed). Many people do not know or care where these plants live and how they grow.
- Federally Listed Endangered Species in Georgia
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Endangered and threatened species of animals and plants are given federal protection under the Endangered Species Act. Federal protection includes individuals of a listed species, habitats essential for their survival, and limitations on pesticide use. Th...
- Federal Listing: Candidate Species in Georgia
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Candidate species are identified for listing as a federally protected species under the Endangered Species Act. These species are not currently under federal protection but are being considered for inclusion if the scientific data supports listing. Some o...
- Falling Tree Leaves: Leaf Abscission
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Trees loose their leaves by design. When leaves become inefficient and unable to produce food and growth regulators, a process of shutting-down and sealing-off begins. Trees shed many parts besides leaves, including fruit, flowers, bud scales, trichomes,
- Fall Tree Color Pigments
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Rating: Votes: 19 Rate ItAutumn tree colors grace our landscapes. The palette of potential colors are as diverse as the natural world. The climate-induced senescence process trees use to pass into a winter rest period, can present many colors to the eye. The color pigments pro...
- Fall Tree Color Outline
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Leaf color formation is a natural process. Short, cool days of fall bring changes to trees. Green light-capture systems must be closed-down for winter. Turning-off leaves reveal fall colors. Best colors come with cool, dry, and bright sunny days. Frosts,
- 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...
- Evaluating WINYIELD v. 1.11 and GaPPS v. 4.20
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Two Windows-based personal computer software systems are examined and compared when used to model and evaluate forest management options on stand volume growth, product class and yield, and financial transactions and profitability.
- Evaluating Pine Regeration and Economic Opportunities
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The purpose of this publication is to provide landowners with information about regeneration options by examining the management and economic opportunities of three pine regeneration methods.
- Estimating Stocking Conditions in Your Timber Stand
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Rating: Votes: 20 Rate ItStocking is an important measure foresters need to manage stands. Ideally, forest managers want a level of stocking that produces maximum yields of the products they want to grow.
- Estimating Returns from Forest Investments
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Rating: Votes: 16 Rate ItThe tools reviewed in this publication can help landowners judge the consequences of investments and provide comparison with other alternatives.
- ESA Candidate Species for Federal Protection
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Candidate species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973, as amended, are species about which there is sufficient supporting scientific information for listing. Because of confusion about the significance of the candidate list and candidate specie...
- Endangered Plant Species of the Coastal Plain of Georgia
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Rating: Votes: 17 Rate ItThe 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
