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- Ecoplex Form, Structure and Function: Ecological Renovation Targets
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One concept that must be developed and appreciated in ecological renovation of community sites is how we delineate space. Where are the edges of a management unit? We must clearly understand the impacts of defining and visualizing biotic islands, corridor...
- Ecological Renovation in Communities: Conceptual Underpinnings
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The places where we live remain connected to natural life support processes. With land development, safety, and cultural issues, these lifelines become more strained. As we cleanse and sterilize our environment, the connections with other life, and associ...
- Ecological Renovation: Assessment Steps for Development Sites
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Once a management unit has been defined, and we understand how it functions at the most basic level, we can then begin a site assessment process. To ecologically renovate an ecoplex, an assessment process must be used that can identify resource inputs and...
- Drought Conditions Which Affect Fish and Ponds
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Continued drought and high temperatures can become critical to both commercial fish producers and sportfish pond managers. As ponds lose water, the fish become more crowded and confined in a smaller volume of water and are stressed. Adding to this stress
- Drought and Trees: A Selected Bibliography
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Research shows that almost 80% of the growth variability in trees and forests is associated with water availability. Drought remains one of the most biologically damaging and ecologically limiting of all environmental constraints. To better understand d...
- Don't Destroy Your Wild Garden: Leave Some Natural Habitat
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A woman called the other day for advice about some ``wild land'' she and her husband had bought. They would be moving there from their house on a microscopic lot in Athens.
- Deer in the Wild Garden
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The wildlife in your yard aren't just squirrels and rabbits anymore. University of Georgia county extension agents now answer thousands of questions a year on backyard problems deer cause.
- 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.
- County Timber Harvesting Regulations and Ordinances in Georgia
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Find which counties in Georgia have timber harvesting ordinances or regulations, and what they are.
- County Ad Valorem Taxes Affecting Agriculture and Forestry in Georgia
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A presentation of where we are with ad valorem taxes, how and why we got here, and the legislation that safeguards property owners' rights in Georgia.
- Controlling Kudzu in CRP Stands
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Several strategies that can be employed to eradicate kudzu include herbicides, prescribed burning, mowing, and livestock grazing.
- Controlled mass pollination in loblolly pine to increase genetic gains
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Rating: Votes: 18 Rate ItControlled mass pollination (CMP) is one way to increase genetic gains from traditional wind-pollinated seed orchards. Methodology is under development by several forestry companies in the southern USA. Costs of CMP depend on the efficient installation, pollination, and removal of inexpensive paper bags.
- Considering Leasing Contracts for CRP Trees
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At expiration of the CRP contract the forest landowner may be interested in long term management of his/her timber resources by leasing their timber land. Leasing remains an important option and can be a win/win experience for landowners and lessees.
- Conifer Sawflies
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This publication describes eleven conifer sawflies by their distinctive markings, their hosts, the time of year they are present, and their distribution. Magnefied and to-scale drawings of each are also provided.
- Components of a Backyard Wildlife Habitat
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Rating: Votes: 23 Rate ItWildlife need food, water, cover and space. To help you plan how to provide these in your backyard habitat, this fact sheet introduces you to 16 components.
- Christmas Tree Shearing
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This fact sheet is prepared to assist growers in mastering the art of shearing to produce quality salable trees.
- Christmas Tree Management: Shearing and Pruning Safely with Hand Tools
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In managing a Christmas tree operation, shearing Christmas trees is one of the most important cultural activities for the grower.
- Channel Catfish Production
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This provides production requirements and marketing strategies for catfish farming as the fastest growing segment of the aquaculture industry in the United States.
- Changing of the Birds
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Fall is on the way. During the hot, dull days of August and September it seems that summer isn't changing. Day follows monotonous day. Summer seems as if it will last forever.
- Catching and Trapping Armadillos
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Armadillos, since their successful invasion of the southeast, have become renowned as pests of lawns and gardens. It's their endless digging in search of their insect food that does the damage.
- Calculating Lease Value Ranges for CRP Trees
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A lease value based on the income potential of the established tree crop uses the estimated tree growing costs and incomes to calculate an annual rental rate.
- Bring Ducks To Your Land
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Ponds and other wetlands provide habitat for ducks and other wildlife seldom seen elsewhere. Simple management methods can change a barren pond to one that produces several good duck hunts a year.
- Black-spored Quillwort (Isoetes melanospora)
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Rating: Votes: 25 Rate ItAquatic 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...
- 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.
- Bird Feeding: Tips for Beginners and Veterans
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This booklet is a basic guide for the beginner just embarking on the hobby of feeding birds, but it should also help veterans improve their feeding stations.
- Best management practices for riparian areas
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This chapter will describe the management issues of concern, water bodies that are addressed by traditional BMPs, RMZ options, and approaches to the development of RMZ guidelines that move beyond BMPs and address issues other than the protection of water quality.
- Basic Ecological Renovation: Problems and Activities
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In ecological renovation, assessment is a critical first step. Once the assessment has been properly completed, a renovation program can be designed to restart, accelerate, or broaden ecological processes, enrich or maintain biological units, and conserve...
- Baitfish Production in the United States
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This provides production requirements and marketing strategies of baitfish, including golden shiners, fathead minnows, goldfish, and white suckers as an alternative to traditional fish farming.
- Bachman's Warbler (Vermivora bachmanii)
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Bachman's warbler is the rarest native songbird in the United States. This tiny bird is about four inches long (10.2 cm). The male is yellow below and dark olive green above with a black bib and cap. The female is yellow below and olive above and is diffi...
- Autumn Forest and Landscape Color
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It is not necessarily the single tree and its colored leaves we most appreciate. As annual flowers may be massed together to yield a spectacular color show, trees can be seen as massed across a landscape in fall. The large swathes of tree colors blanke...
