Forestry
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Rolling Stone magazine had an excellent article this week about the Pine Barrens in New Jersey and how they have the greatest potential for a forest fire catastrophe for anywhere in the United States. Most people think of New Jersey as an urban area and don’t realize how much of the southern part of the…
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Clemson University has announced a meeting May 4 for Southeastern timber growers on how to grow more profitable crops. The meeting announcement is below. LEESVILLE — South Carolina timber growers can learn from experts how to grow more profitable crops at a May 4 meeting. The Growing Our Future meeting takes place at T and S…
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A new web site which contains links to resources on climate and forestry from Extension is now available. The site is https://climateforestswoodlands.org/resources/. When I looked at it yesterday, the clickable map to get resources specific to the Southeast was not working properly, but you can find them directly at https://articles.extension.org/category/southeast.
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The Southern SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education) has released a new guide to agroforestry, the “Sustainable Agroforestry Practices in the Southeastern United States: Training Handbook for Training Field Extension and Technical Assistance Personnel”. Here is what they say about it: “This handbook has been developed to train field-level Extension and technical assistance personnel, who are…
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Southernloggintimes.com posted an article today from the Georgia Forestry Commission that Georgia Tech has put out a new report about logging in Georgia which shows how valuable forestry is to the state. According to the report, “Employees working in forestry earned more in wages and salaries in 2014 than people in any other Georgia manufacturing industry….Georgia’s forest…
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SERCH announced in their newsletter today (see earlier post) that their next installment on the climate vulnerabilities of loblobby pines is now available at https://globalchange.ncsu.edu/serch/climate-vulnerabilities-of-loblolly-pine-part-ii-precipitation/. The first part discussed the impacts of rising temperatures; this part describes the impacts of variable precipitation on the trees in the Southeast.
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The US Department of Agriculture has just released a new report on the impacts of drought on forests and rangelands. It includes descriptions of the types of drought, impacts on water supplies and vegetation, and includes information on how to deal with the impacts effectively. You can find it at https://www.fs.fed.us/sites/default/files/DROUGHT_book-web-1-11-16.pdf.