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- Forestry/Wildlife Myths and Misconceptions
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Many forestry/wildlife myths and misconceptions have been passed down through the years from misinformed individuals. Forestry myths and misconceptions can cause forest landowners to be hesitant about managing their forest land properly, and they are damaging to Mississippi's timber industry.
- Forestry Terms for Mississippi Landowners
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This publication is meant to help you better understand special terms and abbreviations commonly used in forestry.
- Forestry Income Tax Series: Handling Reforestation Expenses
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Forest landowners who spend money on reforestation can take advantage of two federal income tax incentives.
- Forestry Income Tax Series - Basics of Basis
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Basis is the amount of your invested money or the cost of your property such as timber or land. Basis is not the current value of your property.
- Forestry Aesthetics Guide
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Added: October 05, 2008
Rating: Votes: 19 Rate ItThis publication is written as a guide for foresters, loggers, landowners, and other resource managers. The practices recommended are designed to be used as voluntary guidelines to improve and enhance the aesthetics of forest operations in the South.
- Forest Roads and Construction of Associated Water Diversion Devices
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Roads provide access to forest resources, but poorly designed roads increase maintenance costs, restrict access, and create environmental problems.
- Forest Roads
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A well-planned and constructed forest road system is important for the management of your forest, and is a vital link between people and the forest.
- Forest Management Planning
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Added: October 05, 2008
Rating: Votes: 14 Rate ItThis page provides the basic ingredients needed for preparing a sound forest management plan.
- Forest Herbicide Safety: Environmental Concerns and Proper Handling
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The increasing use of herbicides in forests and other agricultural areas has caused concerns about the damage these compounds can do to humans and to the environment. This publication presents suggestions on environmental safety and on proper procedures for handling, storing, transporting, and applying herbicides.
- Fluid Fertilizers
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Rating: Votes: 15 Rate ItFluid fertilizers offer ease of use. Movement is by pump, and they usually require less labor to handle.
- Firewood: How to Obtain, Measure, Season, and Burn
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This fact sheet discusses the acquisition of firewood and the characteristics of different woods, along with the precautions that should be taken to properly burn wood in homes.
- Fertilization of Christmas Trees in Oklahoma
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Christmas trees, like any plant material, need nutrients to increase growth and maintain vigor.
- Erosion Control & Wildlife Plantings for Forestry Operations
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Timber management creates openings in the form of roads, stream crossings, log decks, skid trails, and firebreaks. Establishing vegetative cover on these areas reduces soil erosion and prevents offsite sediment. The purpose of this publication is to provide forest land managers with a variety of seeding mixtures that will stabilize sites and provide benefits to many species of wildlife.
- Ecology & Management of the Northern Bobwhite
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This publication provides information that will help with the successful management of the bobwhite quail.
- Eastern Cottontail Rabbit BROKEN
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The Eastern Cottontail rabbit is one of the most popular game animals in the country. It is found in many parts of the United States, and in parts of the Northeast and Midwest, it is the number one game species.
- Domestic Rabbits And Their Care
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This publication discusses the proper ways to care for a domesticated rabbit.
- 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.
- Direct Seeding: A Forest Regeneration Alternative
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Direct seeding is one method of starting a crop of trees by artificial means. It is an option often overlooked by private landowners when they consider how to regenerate forest lands.
- Development and Implementation of Fisheries Bycatch Monitoring Programs...BROKEN
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Fishery resources are harvested from Gulf of Mexico waters using a variety of gears and methods. With few exceptions, most of the fisheries have an element of bycatch associated with them.
- Determining Fish Pond Balance BROKEN
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This publication will provide information to help pondowners assess their bass/bream populations and to make informed decisions regarding pond management.
- Cutting Firewood Safely
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Cutting your own firewood can be a very worthwhile and rewarding experience if done properly. However, if it is done improperly without regard to safe cutting techniques, serious injury or death can result.
- Concerning Pen-Raised Quail
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Stocking pen-raised bobwhites to increase breeding populations of quail is generally considered unjustified by most biologists due to low survival rates, and has been implicated in the decline of native quail populations because of the potential for disease introduction, food and/or mate competition, displacement of wild quail, increasing wild quail mortality, and dilution of the native gene pool or reduction of brood rearing ability through cross-breeding.
- Competition Control for Cottonwood Plantation Establishment
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This publication discusses recent developments in competition controls used in cottonwood plantations.
- Commercial Rabbit Production
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Rabbits have been produced for 3,000 years. Today they are raised for meat, research, pets, show, and pelts.
- Collecting Insects Pinning and Labeling
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This publication describes ways of pinning and labeling various insects for display.
- Building Homes for Squirrels
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When natural cavities are hard to find, squirrels will readily use man-made dens--sometimes they even prefer them. This preference may be because the dens are dry and protect the squirrels from most of their enemies.
- 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.
- Border Irrigation System
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Border irrigation is an old irrigation system used in the western part of the United States to irrigate alfalfa, wheat, other small grains, and sometimes row crops. It is a system where a large volume of water is put in a defined border or bay at the top of the field and guided by the borders down the slope in a uniform wetting pattern to the end of the field.
- Bobwhite Quail Management
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Added: October 05, 2008
Rating: Votes: 16 Rate ItThis publication provides management techniques to increase quail populations.
- Biology and Control of Christmas Tree Insects BROKEN
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This guide is divided into two sections. The first section presents information on pest biology, damage, cultural controls, and special application considerations; the second section lists recommended insecticides and rates for each pest.
