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- ESRI GIS and Mapping Software
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Added: February 22, 2008
Rating: Votes: 15 Rate ItDesigner and distributor of GIS software, ArcView and ArcInfo.
- Federal Income Tax on Timber - Key to Questions
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This publication examines the most common situations noncorporate taxpayers face when calculating Federal income tax on their timber holdings. It addresses aspects of each situation using a three column format.
- Brown Blood Disease BROKEN
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Brown blood disease occurs in fish when water contains high nitrite concentrations. Nitrite enters the bloodstream through the gills and turns the blood to a chocolate-brown color.
- Planning for Stewardship: A Desk Guide
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This guide offers assistance to writers of plans and includes instructions, requirements and excerpts from well written plans.
- Layman's Guide to Private Access Road Construction
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Poorly constructed access roads often cause severe erosion and stream sedimentation that benefit no one.
- Pine Plantation Fertilization
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Added: February 17, 2008
Rating: Votes: 18 Rate ItMany acres of southern pines can potentially benefit from improved forest nutrition and result in sizeable investment returns.
- Understanding Log Scales and Log Rules
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This publication describes common methods of log scaling and log rules used in Tennessee.
- Trees for Wildlife
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This publication describes the management practices that Tennessee landowners should consider when managing their woodlots for wildlife and timber.
- Trees for Poorly Drained Soils in the Landscape
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This publication discusses the causes of poor soil drainage,ways of testing and repairing your individual soil, and provides a table of trees that are best able to tolerate poorly drained sites.
- The Southern Pine Beetle
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This publication helps landowners by explaining the symptoms of a Southern Pine Beetle attack, what to do about it, and how to prevent it.
- Quality Deer Management: Guidelines for Implementation
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Traditionally, deer management has concentrated on increasing the deer population by protecting the antlerless segment, and focusing on quantity. This publication discusses the shift in management efforts to now focus on quality.
- Managing Nuisance Animals and Associated Damage Around the Home
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If you have unwanted wild animals around your home or garden, you can be sure there is enough food, water and cover for them. The solution to the problem involves removing at least one of these.
- Management of Farm Fish Ponds in Tennessee
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Added: February 16, 2008
Rating: Votes: 21 Rate ItThis bulletin provides management information to help pond owners produce the best fishing possible through good management.
- Landowner's Guide to Timber Sale Contracts
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A written timber sale agreement or contract is generally the preferable and safest method of selling timber. A written contract is legally binding and protects both the buyer and seller.
- Gypsy Moth Management for Homeowners
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Soon, the gypsy moth will become a household word in Tennessee. This obnoxious new neighbor will be eating its way through our hardwood forests, leaving some forests bare.
- Forest Products Measurements and Values
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Added: February 16, 2008
Rating: Votes: 22 Rate ItThis publication explains common forest products measures used in Tennessee and how to estimate the current market value.
- Forest Practice Guidelines for Tennessee
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This publication identifies appropriate forest management practices and informs the Tennessee forest landowner about making wise policy decisions and establishing long-range goals.
- Earning Additional Income Through Hunt Leases On Private Land
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The demand for quality hunting areas has created a market that provides incentives for rural landowners to consider hunting as alternative income.
- Changing Colors of Leaves
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This publication explains what triggers the color change in autumn, which color each species becomes, and the causes of variation in color.
- WV Timber Severance Tax Considerations for Landowners
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This publication explains the application of severance tax to timber in the state of West Virginia.
- Woodlands Protection
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This publication discusses the importance of recognizing dangers to woodland health and suggests ways of protecting it.
- West Virginia's Property Taxes on Timberland
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This publication describes the taxation process of timberland in the state of West Virginia.
- West Virginia's Managed Timberland Tax Incentive Program
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Recognizing the impact of forestry as a renewable natural resource on West Virginia's economy, the state has allowed it to be appraised under the Managed Timberland Program, which serves as a tax incentive for owners of properly managed property.
- West Virginia Logging Sediment Control Act
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This publication describes West Virginia's Logging Sediment Control Act.
- Vegetation Control
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Regardless of the species of Christmas trees grown or the type of vegetation surrounding them, vegetation (brush, grass, weeds) control is the most important cultural practice during a plantation�s life. Control will ensure high quality tree production at a minimum cost.
- USDA Forest Service
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This is the USDA Forest Service homepage and it contains valuable links to the latest foresty related news stories as well as other informative sites.
- Tree Tips
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With so many different kinds of trees out there, how do you ever tell them apart? Here are some tips to help you.
- Timber Sales for Landowners
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The purpose of this publication is to guide the landowner through the steps to ensure receiving a fair price, encontering no legal difficulties, avoiding damage to the environment or to the future stand, and conducting the timber sale as smoothly as possible.
- Timber Basis for Federal Income Tax
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This article reviews considerations for recovering capital expenditures and briefly touches on smoothing income flows to minimize passive losses.
- Silvicultural Systems
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A silvicultural system is a planned process designed to tend immature trees and establish new trees in a forest stand. The type of silvicultural system selected depends on many factors.
