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- Identified Benefits of Community Trees and Forests
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Added: October 31, 2008Community trees and forests are valuable. To the 75% of the United States population that now live in urban and suburban areas, trees provide many goods and services. Values are realized by the people that own the trees, by people nearby, and by society.
- Marketing and Selling Your Timber
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Your forest may be more valuable than you know. This publication outlines points to consider when marketing/selling your timber.
- Urban Parks - on-line
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The Urban Parks Institute was established in 1996 to help improve the quality of urban parks, especially in underserved neighborhoods, by educating public, private and nonprofit sector leaders about best practices in urban park revitalization.
- Tree Planting Objectives and the Seedling Selection Process
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This publication discusses ways to increase seedling survival and achieve an established, well stocked forest stand.
- 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 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.
- Pounce on Weevils to Protect Pine Seedlings
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A new pyrethroid insecticide known as Pounce has been registered in the State of Texas to protect newly-planted pine seedlings from damage or loss to regeneration weevils. The insecticide is applied to seedlings in the nursery just prior to lifting.
- NSA ONLINE
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National Sportsman Association (NSA) leases hunting rights from landowners who have properties in VA, MD and WVA. NSA has managed hunting leases since 1974 and conducts its activities in a manner which not only benefits wildlife but also provides a means of income to landowners and provides recreational opportunities to responsible sportsmen.
- Measuring Standing Trees
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Woodland owners often need to measure the merchantable board foot content (termed "volume") of certain trees in their woodland. This publication teaches you how.
- Iowa Urban and Community Forestry Council
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Added: July 18, 2002Sixty-one percent of the roughly 2.7 million Iowa residents live in urban and community settings. Trees, whether growing along our community's streets, parks, riparian areas or within private properties, benefit climate, energy conservation, economics, social issues, landscape and aesthetics.
- Fire in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Defensible Space
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The purpose of this report is to provide information on the properties of some common California landscaping plants that can be used to determine how a particular plant will behave when burned. It is a referenced database that compiles the information found in available lists and supplements information on plant characteristics that are known to affect fire performance.
- Dealing With Timber Theft
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Forestland can provide countless hours of recreational benefits as well as an important source of income. Many landowners take careful steps to ensure that their property is managed to maximize the benefits they receive. However, all of this work can be easily eradicated by one of Virginias most dreaded forest pests: timber thieves.
- Tree Selection Guide for South Carolina
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This site includes a list of considerations necessary to be made before selecting a tree, including use, site, and aesthetics.
- Woodlands Protection
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This publication discusses the importance of recognizing dangers to woodland health and suggests ways of protecting it.
- Understanding Lightning and Associated Tree Damage Protection
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Added: October 20, 2008Lightning severely damages of kills thousands of trees a year. Many of these trees line community streets and are around homes and schools. Lightning strikes ground somewhere on Earth 9 million times a day--6,200 times a minute--100 times per second.
- Tree Photos
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Click on the name of a tree to see photos.
- The Response of Ohio's Native and Naturalized Trees to Construction Activity
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The American public generally has a love affair with trees. One manifestation of that love affair is the willingness of homeowners to pay 10 to 30 percent more for similar sized, wooded lots in the same subdivision. The assumption by the general public is that trees are trees. Surprise, surprise! Various trees species respond differently to construction.
- The Balsam Twig Aphid
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The balsam twig aphid (Mindarus abietinus Koch) (BTA) is a small, pale green aphid that feeds on fir trees in the spring. BTA feeding on the new growth of Fraser fir often results in permanently curled needles.
- South Carolina Forest Law Handbook
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A reference for law enforcement officers and forestry fire managers.
- Selecting and Caring For Your Cut Christmas Tree
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No matter where or how the tree is obtained, the Christmas tree experience will be more enjoyable if the tree selected is the appropriate species, is the proper size, is clean and fresh, and is provided the proper care during the holiday season and disposed of in an effective manner once the holiday is over.
- 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.
- Prescribed Burning Assistance
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WHY Do Good Forest Managers Burn the Woods?
- Pond Fertilization and Liming
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Proper fertilization and liming can increase three to four times the pounds of fish a pond will support. Unfertilized ponds stocked with bream, bass and catfish usually have about 100 pounds of fish per surface acre. Ponds receiving adequate amounts of fe...
- Pine Tortoise Scale
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One of the more difficult insects for Christmas tree growers to control is the pine tortoise scale (Toumeyella parvicornis).
- Pests That Affect Human Health: Poisonous Spiders and Scorpions
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Spiders and scorpions have long been looked upon with fear as loathsome and venomous creatures, but in their natural habitats, spiders and scorpions are beneficial to humans.
- Pest Alert: Gypsy Moth
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Added: July 26, 2008The gypsy moth has been an important pest of hardwoods in the Northeastern United States since its introduction in 1869. Established populations exist in all or parts of 19 states from Maine to Wisconsin and south to Illinois and generally in a southeasterly line from Illinois to northeastern North Carolina.
- North Carolina Extension Home Page
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A wealth of information on managing forest in the Southeast
- Marketing Your Timber: The Bidding Process
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Timber is a multi-million dollar business in Mississippi. Many landowners, however, do not receive the full value when they sell their timber, because selling timber properly is a complicated task.
- How to Identify Your Property Boundaries
- Forest Pest Control Perspective
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Many of the pest problems in forests are present because of past forest practices. Exploitive harvesting has left nonmerchantable trees, brush, and nonstocked lands covered with weeds that prevent regeneration of desired species. Present forest managers are now adopting management methods that minimize the creation of new pest problems.
