Forests
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The latest US Forest Service monthly newsletter was released this week. It contains links to a number of interesting stories, including a video on how fire benefits forests and how climate change will impact forest hydrology. You can view the newsletter here.
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I’ve seen a few forestry-related resources in my email today that you might find useful or interesting. I may add to the list later today once I get through all my email. Extension.org has a series of educational videos on proper tree planting techniques at https://articles.extension.org/pages/73966/tree-placement-and-planting-video-series. Information on taxes for forest landowners are available at https://timbertax.org/.…
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USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture announced yesterday that PINEMAP (The Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project) has received a 2016 Partnership Award for their Mission Integration of Research, Education and Extension. The PINEMAP team from the University of Florida enabled Southern pine landowners to manage forests for increased carbon sequestration and adopt forest…
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The USDA’s Southern Research Station posted an article discussing the replacement of loblolly pines with longleaf pines after damage by hurricanes or other strong wind events. Longleaf pines are more resilient to wind and forest fire damage and are also less affected by pine beetles, but have been largely replaced by loblolly pines grown in…
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The NC Forest Service and the the NC Wildlife Resources Commission have teamed up with NC State University Extension Forestry, with support from the USDA Forest Service, to offer forest landowners these special 2-hour workshops with dinner. If you have managed forestland in the areas around Holly Shelter Game Lands, Angola Bay and Bear Gardens…
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Now that cooler temperatures have finally returned to the Southeast, it is time to think about fall and the change of colors. There are a number of websites available to help you find times and places to see peak colors. Country Living highlighted a map which shows how peak color moves from north to south…
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Since Hurricane Hermine is coming onshore soon, there is bound to be a lot of damage to trees across the Southeast. Here is an interesting article from Inside Science on how and why trees break. In the case of a hurricane, a lot of tree damage also comes not from the tree breaking but being…
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