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- Housing Crocodilians in Captivity: Considerations for Central America and Caribbean
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Attempts to develop and successfully operate facilities that commercially exploit crocodilians have always faced considerable challenges, especially in developing countries. However, there are guidelines that, if implemented, can increase chance of success and reduce crocodilian mortality. Combining captive breeding with ranching and tourism may be the best overall approach for linking conservation of crocodiles with economic benefits to local communities and governments. Crocodilian enclosures require careful planning and consideration of the aims of the facility. All enclosures must share similar minimal requirements of providing safe and secure confinement in a manner that also provides for the health and well being of crocodiles. The overall success of any facility holding crocodilians relies upon reducing amount of stress to individuals by providing and maintaining high water quality, adequate temperatures, appropriate cover, and a high standard of food quality and hygiene.
- Winter Drawdown: A Useful Management Tool for Mississippi Farm Ponds
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One of the most useful and most inexpensive pond management practices is called a "winter drawdown." This practice is the reduction of water levels in a pond to some predetermined level.
- Wild Turkey Management In Alabama
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This publication provides information on the wild turkey relating to its life history, habitat needs, and habitat management.
- Urban Wildlife and Wildlife Gardening Books
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Books about urban wildlife and wild gardens in general.
- University of Minnesota Libraries
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Indexes, databases and bibliographic citations
- Tree Decay: An Expanded Concept
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The purpose of this publication is to clarify further the tree decay concept that expands the classical concept to include the orderly response of the tree to wounding and infection-compartmentalization-and the orderly infection of wounds by many microorganisms-successions.
- The Bagworm in Missouri
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The bagworm can be a constant threat to evergreen and deciduous shrubs used for landscaping. Attacked plants usually are partially defoliated, weakened and rendered unsightly. It is not uncommon for complete defoliation to occur.
- Thanksgiving: A Forest Feast
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Forests have been, and remain, a critical cultural and economic foundation for this nation. Our close relationship with the forests that surround us can be demonstrated by the struggle and success of early European settlers. Thanksgiving is a holiday cele...
- Selling Walnut Timber
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Black walnut requires and deserves attention if maximum returns are to be earned. For many woodland owners, the opportunity to sell timber comes only once or twice during a lifetime. For those fortunate enough to own a well-managed woodland, timber can be harvested periodically. In either case, the success or failure of a timber sale usually will depend on the attitude and knowledge of the seller.
- Renovating Poor Pine Stands: Putting Land Back to Work
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Several aspects of pine stand renovation are presented here. The primary management objective covered in this publication is pine timber production and marketing.
- Quality Drying of Softwood Lumber
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Easy to use tools a kiln operator can use to maintain an efficient and profitable operation
- Predicting Potential Loss from the Southern Pine Beetle in the Coastal Plain of South Carolina
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Provides a system that allows users to rate both plantations and natural stands of loblolly and shortleaf pine in the Coastal Plain for the likelihood of a SPB spot (infestation) occurring, chance of a spot spreading, and potential for timber loss.
- Natural Resources and Environmental Management: A Program Focus of Virginia Cooperative Extension
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This bulletin describes a few of the pressing natural resource and environmental issues common in Virginia, and how the Virginia Cooperative Extension is addressing them through education.
- IDRC and the management of sustainable urban development in Latin America
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Today, the built environment is the most significant human environment. Globally, half of humanity now lives in urban settlements, while Europe and North America is 80% urbanized. These urban settlements have a disproportionate impact on the natural environment, consuming 75 percent of the world's resources and producing most of its waste (Sweet, undated).
- Hurricanes, Trees and Forests: A Selected Bibliography
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Hurricanes and trees do not mix well. This publication cites recent publications and journal articles which deal with various aspects of hurricane impacts on trees and forests. This not a comprehensive review but selected to provide a broad view of work a...
- Growing Christmas Trees on Reclaimed Surface-Mined Land
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Christmas tree production can be an excellent use for reclaimed mined lands in Virginia. Most species do quite well on mine soils because they are more tolerant of the acid, infertile, and droughty conditions than agricultural or horticultural crops, yet they do respond to active management.
- Frequently Used Forestry and Natural Resource Terms for Landowners of Oklahoma
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These pages provide definitions for terms that are frequently used in forestry and other natural resource management disciplines.
- 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.
- Forest Stewardship: Understanding and Conserving Biological Wealth in Our Forests
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Added: March 20, 2008This bulletin focuses on how our forests contribute to our biological wealth, why we need to conserve natural diversity, and how landowners, through proper use of stewarship, can help protect this biological treasure for future generations.
- Forest Resources One-liners with Georgia Highlights
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The purpose of this publication is to provide short notes of useful things to know about forestry. This forest resource educational information is for use in various formats, such as: presentations by educators, public officials, communication specialists...
- 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...
- 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.
- Assessing Construction Damage:Tree Damage Exposure Values and Recovery Time
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Tree-literacy is critical to living with and among trees in our built-up environments.
- Construction and Tree Protection
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This is an interactive desk reference section of the North Carolina Forest Extension.
- Tree-Literate Treehouses
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Added: November 05, 2008There is an attraction between trees and children. A tree's constant motion even in the stillest air, and its great size and reach make a tree fascinating. At some stage during child development, when motor skills and hand grip are refined and strong, tree climbing becomes a play task. The world is filled with trees to climb.
- SCFC-Timber Marketing Assistance
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Added: November 15, 2000Assistance includes advise concerning the marketing of forest products, the advantage of competitive bids, providing buyers list, sample sales announcement forms, and sample contract forms.
- Trees and Ice Storms: Ice Storm Resistant Urban Trees
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Susceptibility ratings of species commonly planted in urban areas are presented for use in developing and maintaining healthy urban tree populations. Includes information about what causes ice storms.
- Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda) and Drought: A Selected Bibliography
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Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) is critical to timber markets and to landscapes. Seasonal water shortages impact loblolly in a variety of ways. As part of tree health care and drought management, the following publications are listed to facilitate informat...
- Aquatic Weed Management in Citrus Canals and Ditches
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Aquatic plants are necessary for maintaining the balance of nature and offering food, protection, oxygen, and shelter to aquatic species. One reality of growing citrus in Florida flatwoods areas is that nearly every citrus grower will sooner or later experience aquatic weed control problems. Maintaining a balance in the aquatic system while sustaining crop success and avoiding loss of income can be a challenge. Over-abundant aquatic weed growth can also lower drainage rates following heavy rains, resulting in severe root pruning, increased disease incidence, and fruit drop. Therefore management of aquatic vegetation species should be an essential component of the overall water management strategy for most Flatwoods citrus groves.
- Tax Tips for Forest Landowners for the 1997 Tax Year
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The long term capital gains rate has been reduced significantly--if you sold your timber at the right time and you met the correct holding period requirements. These new rules, plus the information that follows, are some things to keep in mind.
