Of Interest to Forest Landowners
Online forestry publications: Click on the title to access the full publication.
The
Southern Timber Market to 2040
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Timber market
analysis of the South's predominantly private timberland finds that the 13
southern states produce nearly 60 percent of the nation's timber, an increase
from the mid-1900s. Projections with the Subregional Timber Supply model show
that, despite a 60 percent increase in the area of pine plantations, the South
will experience a 1 percent decline in private timberland area as other forest
types shrink. Because of expected productivity gains for plantation forests and
conversions of some agricultural lands to natural forests, the South's
industrial wood output is projected to increase by more than 50 percent between
1995 and 2040.
A
Guide to the Care and Planting of Southern Pine Seedlings
- (R8-MB39 Revised 1996)
This booklet is designed to encourage landowners, land managers, county foresters, forestry
consultants, and nursery managers to
be certain that their seedlings receive proper care. As a reminder, it
reviews the elements of seedling
care in an idealized reforestation
system. For our purposes here, the
system begins with lifting and
packing in the nursery, includes
transportation and storage, and
ends when the seedling roots are in
proper contact with the soil.
Pristine
Version - 20MB
Captured
Version
- 12MB (Subject to OCR - Optical Character Recognition)
Romancing
the Crop Tree
Foresters and landowners alike desire
alternatives to traditional silvicultural techniques. For example, many
landowners are unwilling to clearcut their forest. They want economic return,
but not at the expense of removing the entire forest. Yet, in the South, most
knowledgeable foresters are reluctant to recommend selection cutting because it
too readily drifts into "high grading" if done improperly. In
addition, on public lands, society often places a higher value on forest
amenities other than commercial timber production.
Guidelines
for producing quality longleaf pine seeds
Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.)
seeds are sensitive to damage during collection, processing, treatment, and
storage. High-quality seeds are essential for successfully producing nursery
crops that meet management goals and perform well in the field. Uniformity in
the production of pine seedlings primarily depends on prompt and uniform seed
germination, early seedling establishment, and a variety of cultural practices
that are applied as the seedlings develop. The best collecting, handling, and
processing methods maximize performance attributes and reduce the need for
extensive nursery cultural practices to compensate for poor seed quality.
Guidelines are presented that will help seed dealers, orchard managers, and
nursery personnel produce high-quality longleaf pine seeds and improve the
efficiency of nursery production.
Greenery - An Opportunity for Forest Landowners
Forest Landowners' Guide to the Federal Income Tax -- Agriculture Handbook No. 718
Updates, expands, and supersedes Agric. Handbook 708. 171 pages.
Controlling
exotic plants in your forest
The author discusses the impacts of exotic
plants and suggests control and rehabilitation measures. Trees, shrubs, and
vines addressed include silk tree or mimosa, Chinese and Japanese privet, kudzu,
multiflora rose, Japanese honeysuckle, and Chinese wisteria.
Southern Pulpwood Production: 1998
In 1998, the South’s production of pulpwood declined 2 percent to 74.7 million cords. Roundwood production dropped to 52.7 million cords and accounted for 71 percent of the total pulpwood production. The use of wood residue increased to 21.9 million cords. Alabama leads the South in total production, number of mills, and pulping capacity. Currently, 103 mills are operating and drawing wood from the 13 Southern States. Southern mills’ pulping capacity of 140,610 tons per day accounts for more than two-thirds of the Nation’s total pulping capacity.
The results of a half-century of experience and research with uneven-aged silviculture within the loblolly-shortleaf pine type of the Southern United States are summarized, and silvicultural guidelines for developing and managing uneven-aged stands are provided in this publication.
Loblolly pine ranks as a highly valuable tree for its pulp, paper, and lumber products. In the South, loblolly is planted more than any other conifer. Loblolly Pine: The Ecology and Culture of Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda L.) adds to the technical foundations laid by Ashe (1915) and Wahlenberg (1960). Agriculture Handbook 713 encompasses genetics, tree improvement, field inventory and analysis, and international forestry, as well as ecology, direct seeding, and planting. Loblolly Pine: The Ecology and Culture of Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda L.) highlights individual tree, stand, and land management alternatives useful to resource managers, students, researchers, and others.
Information gathered from 2,713 permanent Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) sample plots showed that over 1.0 million acres, or 15 percent of the nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) timberland in Florida is in forested tracts £ 10 acres. Forested tracts ranging from 11 to 100 acres accounted for the largest proportion of NIPF timberland.
America's Wood Basket -- Southern Forest Facts: The majority of the forest landownerships in the South are in holdings of less than 100 acres.
Conversion Table between Metric Units and English Units
Useful Links for Landowners
Southern Research Station - Publications -- a database with over 8970 publications online that you can download and print.
SRS-4801, Forest Inventory and Analysis.
This Research Work Unit headquartered in Knoxville, TN, develops, analyzes, and
maintains forest resources information for Southern States and conducts research to
provide improved inventory and evaluation techniques.
SRS-4801 Website:
http://srsfia2.fs.fed.us/
Search the Southern Research Station Site
Electronic Forest Resources Library (Southern Extension Forester)
Forest Health Protection - Southern Region
Cooperative Forestry -- USDA Forest Service
Virginia Cooperative Extension -- Forestry, Fisheries, Wildlife
Private Forest Landowners Site from The Nature Conservancy
USDA Forest Service is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Provider
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