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- Recycling Municipal Trees
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Added: July 18, 2008
Rating: Votes: 16 Rate ItThe purpose of this guide is to make officials of municipalities aware of an alternative strategy for using their street tree removals; a "recycling" strategy which can potentially turn a cost-burden scenario into an income-generating opportunity. The strategy involves merchandising sawmill-size logs from street tree removals to sawmills or other companies that have unique uses for street tree logs.
- Recommended Trees for Urban Landscapes:Performers for Difficult Sites
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The following list of recommended trees includes a variety of plants that have demonstrated particular resistance to harsh growing conditions, diseases, and insects in North Carolina.
- Qualifiers for Quagmires: Landscape Plants for Wet Sites
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Wet, poorly drained soils present one the most difficult challenges for growing plants in the landscape. Excessive moisture displaces oxygen in the soil and plant roots can suffocate as a result.
- Pruning Trees
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This site provides a step-by-step guide to pruning trees with topics including how to prune, when to prune, and how much to prune.
- Pruning shade trees in the landscape
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Pruning is a double-edged sword, either helping or hurting according to if, where, when, how, and why it is applied. When properly executed, a variety of benefits can occur. Benefits include reducing risk of branch and stem breakage, better clearance for vehicles and pedestrians, improved health and appearance, enhanced view, and increased flowering. When improperly performed, pruning can harm the tree's health, stability, and appearance and make matters worse.
- Pruning deciduous Trees and Shrubs
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Pruning is essential for attractive, healthy trees and shrubs and improves the quality of flowers, fruit, and foliage. The best way to avoid difficult pruning jobs is to plan ahead; select plants that will fit available space after the plants have matured to their maximum size.
- Protecting Trees from Construction Damage: A Homeowner's Guide
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This publication explains some things that landowners can do to minimize the impact of construction on trees. It describes landscape protection plans, special construction techniques, symptoms of damage, and treatment strategies.
- Power Lines and Trees
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This publication discusses the dangers of trees growing too close to power lines and methods for managing the problem.
- Potential Allelopathy in Different Tree Species
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Allelopathy is a significant tree health care issue. Allelopathy is the chemical modification of a site to facilitate better tree growth, and control ecological volume and essential resources. The proportion of allelopathy within each species' interferenc�
- PLANTS National Database
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The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.
- Planting Trees In Your Landscape
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Good landscape plants can increase property value, save energy, and provide privacy and beauty around your home. This publications provides helpful information on planting, watering, and fertilizing your new trees.
- Planting Techniques For Trees and Shrubs
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A properly planted tree or shrub will be more tolerant of adverse conditions and require much less management than one planted incorrectly. Planting technique impacts water quality as it minimizes water, fertilizer and pesticide use.
- Oaks n Folks Newsletter
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Oaks 'n Folks is the regular newsletter of the Integrated Hardwood Range Management Program.
- Northeast Center for Urban and Community Forestry
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The Georgia Urban Forest Council is a non-profit organization offering educational and other opportunities to promote excellent community forestry policies, programs and practices throughout Georgia.
- Newly Planted Trees: Strategies for Survival
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Hundreds of thousands of trees are planted along city and community streets and on other public property throughout the United States each year. Unfortunately, many of these trees, perhaps 50 percent or more, do not survive beyond one or two years.
- Natural Resource Skills Introduction to Tree Identification
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When you feel that you are ready, simply click here for a practice leaf test, or on the word twigs for a practice winter i.d. test. You can also go to the introduction to tree identification lecture to review terminology or just to visit.
- National Association of State Foresters (NASF)
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WHO WE ARE: The National Association of State Foresters is a non-profit organization that represents the directors of the State Forestry agencies from all fifty states, eight U.S. territories (American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, the Northern Marianas Islands, Palau, Puerto Rico, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands), and the District of Columbia.
- Mulching for a Healthy Landscape
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For as long as trees have grown in forests, leaves and needles have fallen to the ground and formed a natural protective layer over the soil. This same protection can be given to the plants in our landscapes by mulching.
- Maintaining Tree/Turfgrass Associations: A Plant Health Care Approach
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The common association of trees and turf in landscapes is plagued by competition for scarce water, nutrient, and sunlight resources. In the following article you will find an explanation of the problems that arise from this incompatibility and how to overcome them to achieve healthy, attractive trees and turfgrass.
- Large Trees For North Carolina
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Large trees are dominant features in the landscape. Many plans rely on trees for several design functions: to provide background, enclosure, define spaces, help reduce noise and unsightly views. Trees also provide needed shade, channel breezes, and break forceful winds. They also help the environment by filtering pollutants and exchanging oxygen for carbon dioxide.
- Landscape Plantings for Energy Savings
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The high cost of home heating and air conditioning prompts efforts to reduce home energy consumption. Although outdoor landscape plants are pleasing in themselves, they can also play a large part in controlling energy use indoors.
- International Union of Forest Research Organizations
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UFRO is a non-profit, non-governmental international network of forest scientists. Its objectives are to promote international cooperation in forestry and forest products research. IUFRO's activities are organized primarily through its 277 specialized Units in 8 technical Divisions.
- IDNR Urban Forestry Websites and References
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National urban forestry organizations.
- Green Infrastructure: The Conservation Fund
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Green Infrastructure is our Nation's natural life support system - an interconnected network of protected land and water that supports native species, maintains natural ecological processes, sustains air and water resources and contributes to the health and quality of life for America's communities and people.
- Forestry AgNIC
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Links to forestry-related web sites; part of the National Agricultural Library's Agriculture Network Information Center.
- Fertilizing Trees and Shrubs
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In urban or suburban neighborhoods, trees and shrubs often need fertilizing. Modern home- building methods create adverse growing conditions for plants. Often, good topsoil is completely removed and not replaced. Heavy machinery scrapes and compacts fertile soil, reducing its aeration and drainage. Plants are crowded by streets and sidewalks, and must compete with grass for nutrients. Proper fertilization is especially important to landscape plants in this type of environment.
- Fertilizing Landscape Trees and Shrubs
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Tree and shrub fertilization is especially important in urban and suburban areas of Virginia where soils have been altered due to construction. These urban soils tend to be heavily compacted, poorly aerated, poorly drained, and low in organic matter. Even where soils have not been affected, fertilization may be needed as part of a maintenance program to increase plant vigor or to improve root or top growth.
- Diversified Urban Plantings
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This publication discusses ways of diversifying urban landscape through the selection of various tree species.
- Create A Certified Wildlife Habitat
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Go out in your backyard and look around! Watch the butterflies and hummingbirds dance in search of nectar. Listen to the trill of songbirds. Hear the plop of a frog jumping into a pond. This isn't your yard, you say? It could be. It's not hard, and it doesn't matter where you live or how much space you have.
- Conserving Energy with Landscaping
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Well-placed plantings can significantly temper the microclimate around a home, resulting in a more comfortable environment and big savings in heating and cooling costs over time.
