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- Landscape and Human Health Laboratory
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A multidisciplinary research laboratory dedicated to studying ``the relationships between people and the environments they inhabit
- Glossary of Forestry Terms
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This glossary contains many useful forestry terms.
- Water Resources in Urban Ecosystems
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Water Resource in Urban Ecosystems
- Tree Planting Area Size: Futuring Resource Availability and Constraints
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Added: November 05, 2008The success of tree plantings in communities and yards is dependent upon many features of species, site, and planting procedure. One component of site which directly affects new tree success, continued low maintenance growth, and relatively long life span is the open soil surface area and volume of soil colonized by roots. Selecting new planting sites for the availability of adequate resources, now and into the future, as trees expand their resources will maximize the chances of producing a great, long-lived tree.
- Some Facts About Soil Basics
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This publication is an introduction to the origins of soils and how they influence capabilities and uses of soils.
- Make a Stone Pile in Your "Wild Garden"
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Added: October 20, 2008A stone pile in an old fence row is a fascinating detail in a rural landscape. A sunny, springtime day is a good time to go stealthily along your favorite paths and creep up on a rock pile. Its picturesque, lichen-covered rocks seem to date to antiquity.
- Hurricane-damaged Shade, Ornamental, and Fruit Trees
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A brief guide to single tree care after catastrophic weather events.
- Evacuation Plan is More Than You May Think
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suggested evacuation plans (due to fire, storm, etc) for families living in wooded areas
- Dwarfing and Freeze Hardiness Potential of Trifoliate Orange Rootstocks
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Details the usefulness of freeze-hardy rootstocks in citrus growing.
- Pentastomid Infections in Fish
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The pentastomes are a group of worm-like parasites that infect many different species of fish. Infections have been found in several families of fish including the Cichlidae (tilapia), Cyprinidae (danios), Cyprinodontidae (flagfish), and Poecilidae (mosquitofish, swordtails, mollies, platies).
- 4-H Project Record: Wetlands
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Wetlands 4-H Project Record (4H MER 70) is a marine 4-H project record in environmental education for 4-H members age 10 and up. This record book is used in conjunction with the Wetlands 4-H Project Manual (4H MEM 70). The activities in this book help youth to learn and record the types of swamps in Florida and which plants and animals live in this environment.
- Your Home in the Line of Fire
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Precautions you can take to protect your home.
- Urban biodiversity, urban sustainable environment
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Welcome to the Belgian Clearing-House Mechanism, the portal site set up by Belgium to promote technical and scientific cooperation in the field of biodiversity and to provide information on matters related to the Convention on Biological Diversity.
- Trend-Spotting in the Garden
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I did a survey of University of Georgia Extension Service agents recently to see what kinds of wildlife management are in demand. Surveys help spot trends to see what people want to know.
- Thinning Your Timber for Profit
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Thinning is a process in which a certain number of trees are removed from a stand to increase the growing space available to the residual stand of timber (the trees that are left to grow) and sold to make some money from the timber that is removed.
- The Value of Landscaping
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The Value of Landscaping
- The Bugwood Network
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The Mission of The Entomology and Forest Resources Digital Information Work Group is to gather, create, maintain, promote the use of, and economically distribute digital information both as resources and as tools to enhance and complement information exchange and educational activities primarily in the fields of entomology, forestry, forest health and natural resources.
- Selecting Firewood
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Whether you buy or gather your own firewood, you will likely have a choice from among the many species of trees grown in the state. Pound for pound all wood burns about the same.
- Protecting Trees During Construction
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The decision to protect and preserve trees on a construction site is an important one. Many sites are chosen for residential or business use simply because the site contains a beautiful shade tree or offers a wooded environment. Often the very trees which are highly valued for their contribution to the aesthetic appeal of a site are inadequately protected or cared for during construction
- Practice and Potential of Agroforestry in the Southeastern United States
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The purpose of the following instructional document—officially called a white paper—is to help farmers, landowners, extension professionals and policymakers develop solutions to some of the problems they or their clients face, using agroforestry as a land management tool.
- 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.
- Overview of Wood-Fired Boiler Use in West Virginia
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The objective of this fact sheet is to provide an overview of the amount of wood residue used for fuel in wood-fired boilers and of changes in the use of wood residue for process heat and steam generation between 1992 and 1997.
- Natural Regeneration Using Seed Trees
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Seed-tree regeneration presents an excellent opportunity for most of the forestland owners in Mississippi who want to grow pine or other light-seeded species, but regeneration is not free and landowners should not try to use this method if they currently do not have a good quality stand of trees.
- Measuring Woodland Timber
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Forest products, like other agricultural commodities, must be measured before they are sold. Few woodland owners, however,understand the reasons for or the methods of measuring woodland timber.
- Managing Hybrid Sunfish in Mississippi Farm Ponds
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Much has been written about hybrid sunfish, but not all of it is accurate. Although these fish have great potential for growth and are a desirable stocking option in many ponds, there are certain disadvantages and limitations involved in stocking hybrids in farm ponds.
- Kudzu Eradication Guidelines
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This report summarizes current guidelines for controlling kudzu with herbicides. It is based on research conducted by Dr. Jim Miller, a research forester for the USDA Forest Service, George W. Andrews Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Auburn, Alabama.
- Insect and Plant Disease Control Manual
- Initiating Fall Leaf Colors
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Spring flower colors are raised in fall to crown the trees. The pigments are the same but the colored containers have changed from dainty petals to coarse, broad leaves. Fall tree colors are composed of pigments that can be divided into oil paints, wate...
- Hawksbill Turtle (Eretmochlys imbricata)
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The hawksbill turtle's shell is covered with glossy brown and tan overlapping scutes, or horny plates. It reaches 2 feet (65 cm) long and weighs an average of 90 pounds (40 kg). The scales of the hawksbill were once used to make combs and curious.
- Hawks Visit the Wild Garden
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Jay Shelton, a biologist friend, recently reported seeing a sparrow hawk try to take a small bird from near his bird feeder the other day. The hawk missed, but it was worth watching.
