Published Library Resources

This virtual library holds a wide range of urban forestry resources including: research abstracts and full text journal articles, trade magazine articles, CDs, other technology transfer resources, books (or chapters of books), patents, ordinances, theses and dissertations, and conference proceedings.

Forest landowners' guide to the Federal income tax

This publication is the latest in a series of income tax handbooks for nonindustrial private forest owners that extends back over 45 years. It represents a major revision of Agriculture Handbook No. 708, Forest Owners' Guide to the Federal Income Tax. It updates that publication to include tax ...

Forest fragmentation of southern U.S. bottomland hardwoods

The magnitude and character of forest fragmentation are evaluated for bottomland hardwoods in the southern United States. Fragment size class is significantly associated with the frequency of bottomland hardwood species, stand size and ownership classes, and land use attributes. Differences in the ...

Forest fires and smoke - impacts on air quality and human health in the USA

Scientific and regulatory interest in the air quality impacts of forest fire smoke (both prescribed and wildfires) followed the implementation of the 1970 Clean Air Act amendments. Attention on forest fires became more focused as a series of new amendments were enacted to protect the air quality ...

Climate change impacts on the hydrology and productivity of a pine plantation

There are increasing concerns in the forestry community about global climate change and variability associated with elevated atmospheric CO2. Changes in precipitation and increases in air temperature could impose additional stress on forests during the next century. For a study site in Carteret ...

A world wide web human dimensions framework and database for wildlife and forest planning

The paper describes a human dimensions framework (HDF) for application in wildlife and forest planning. The HDF is delivered via the world wide web and retrieves data on-line from the Social, Economic, Environmental, Leisure, and Attitudes (SEELA) database. The proposed HDF is guided by ten ...

A knowledge-based information management system for watershed analysis in the Pacific Northwest U.S.

The Pacific Northwest Research Station (USDA Forest Service) is developing a knowledge-based information management system to provide decision support for watershed analysis. The system includes: (1) a GIS interface that allows users to navigate graphically to specific provinces and watersheds and ...

Implications of this assessment

Outdoor recreation is complex and difficult to summarize fully. It includes a wide variety of activities and interests, ranging from canoeing to watching wildlife. Many outdoor activities often occur in a variety of settings. These settings may have different characteristics and thus provide ...

Impacts of historic land use on trout habitat in the Southern Appalachians.

Land use has had a major impact on habitat structure in the Southern Appalachians. One of the most conspicuous changes has been the loss of large woody debris (LWD). Human use has so changed the structure and composition of most forested watersheds that is difficult for average citizens to ...

The effects of population growth on timber management and inventories in Virginia

Expanding human populations may have important effects on the availability of timber from private lands in the South. To examine the effects of development on timber supply, the authors compared the density of populations and various site variables with expert opinions on the future location of ...

The dynamic nature of sediment and organic constituents in TSS

The Chattooga River Watershed, located in NE Georgia, NW South Carolina, and SW North Carolina, contains some of the most scenic and valuable water resources in the region. The Chattooga River is designated as a wild and scenic river and serves as the headwaters for water supplied to numerous ...

The challenge of managing for healthy riparian areas

The challenge of managing for healthy riparian areas means coming to grips with our heritage, understanding how the land and streams change, dealing with diverse and divisive issues, learning to read the land and rivers, expanding our set of management tools, and, most important, seeing with the ...

Southern forest resource assessment - summary report

The Southern Forest Resource Assessment was initiated in 1999 as a result of concerns raised by natural resource managers, the science community, and the public regarding the status and likely future of forests in the South. These included changes to the region’s forests brought about by ...

Medicinal and dietary supplements: specialty forest products with a long tradition

Over the last five years forest products other than timber-based products have received a great deal of attention. The markets for medicinal plants that are collected from the forests are growing rapidly. Some reports suggest this segment of the non-timber forest products industry is expanding ...

Longleaf pine forests and woodlands: old growth under fire!

The author discusses a once widespread forest type of the Southeast longleaf pine dominated forests and woodlands. This system depends on fire more or less frequent, and often of low intensity. Because human-mediated landscape fragmentation has drastically changed the behavior of fire on longleaf ...

Use of fish community data to evaluate restoration success of a riparian stream

From 1985 to 1988, stream and riparian habitats in Pen branch and Four Mile branch began recovering from deforestation caused by the previous release of hot water from nuclear reactors. The Pen branch corridor was replanted with wetland trees in 1995 to expedite recovery and restore the Pen branch ...

An integrated environmental assessment of the US mid-Atlantic region

Many of today's environmental problems are in scope and their effects overlap and interact. We developed a simple method to provide an integrated assessment of environmental conditions and estimate cumulative impacts across a large region, by combining data on land-cover, population, roads, ...

Agriculture and wildlife: ecological implications of subsurface irrigation drainage

Subsurface agricultural irrigation drainage is a wastewater with the potential to severely impact wetlands and wildlife populations. Widespread poisoning of migratory birds by drainwater contaminants has occurred in the western United States and waterfowl populations are threatened in the Pacific ...

Understanding community-forest relations

Improved understanding of the relationship between human communities and forests is necessary to understanding how alternative forest management policies and practices can affect different communities. This knowledge also enhances our ability to formulate plans that are responsive to the needs and ...

Sources and practices contributing to soil contamination

The term soil contamination can have different connotations because anthropogenic sources of contaminants have affected virtually every natural ecosystem in the world; a commonly held view is that contamination occurs when the soil composition deviates from the normal composition (Adriano et al., ...

Soluble sugar composition of pond-cypress: a potential hydroecological indicator of ground water perturbations

Pond-cypress, a deciduous conifer, is a dominant canopy species in depressional wetlands of the southeastern Coastal Plain (SCP). Extensive premature decline and death of pond-cypress trees in central Florida have been attributed to hydroperiod alterations due to excessive withdrawals of ground ...

Smoke management: toward a data base to validate PB-Piedmont - numerical simulation of smoke on the ground at night

The use of fire for controlled burning to meet objectives for silviculture or for ecosystem management carries the risk of liability for smoke. Near-ground smoke can degrade air quality, reduce visibility, aggravate health problems, and create a general nuisance. At night, smoke can locally limit ...

Sludge fertilization of state forest land in northern Michigan

A five-year research-demonstration project to examine the logistic, economic, environmental and sociological aspects of municipal wastewater sludge application was conducted on State Forest land occupied by forest types of major commercial importance in northern Michigan. The procedures utilized ...

Signal-transfer modeling for regional assessment of forest responses to environmental changes in the southeastern United States

Stochastic transfer of information in a hierarchy of simulators is offered as a conceptual approach for assessing forest responses to changing climate and air quality across 13 southeastern states of the USA. This assessment approach combines geographic information system and Monte Carlo ...

The role of indicator species: neotropical migratory song birds

Southern Appalachian forests support some of the richest avian diversity in North America, including some 75 species of Neotropical migrants, birds that perform the remarkable feat of making much of the Western Hemisphere their home. This diverse group includes the swallows, kingbirds, and other ...

The role of fire in nongame wildlife management and community restoration: traditional uses and new directions: Proceedings of a special workshop

Contains 16 papers and 4 abstracts on the use of fire for nongame wildlife management and rare plant community management in restoration in the United States with emphasis on forested systems.

The revival of a failed constructed wetland treating a high Fe load AMD

Acid mine drainage (AMD) from abandoned mines has significantly impaired water quality in eastern Kentucky. A small surface flow wetland constructed in 1989 to reduce AMD effects and subsequently failed after six months of operation was renovated by incorporating anoxic limestone drains (ALDs) and ...

Responses of tree crown conditions to natural and induced variations in throughfall

Concentrations of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane, and oxides of nitrogen, in the atmosphere are predicted to double in the next one hundred years. Forecasts of climatic variation across the southeastern United States resulting from these increases range from higher average ...

The view from the road: the urban forest and our freeways

Every year Americans spend more time in their cars. In recent decades, trips and mileage have increased by up to 85 percent. Today Americans travel 2.3 billion miles daily on urban freeways and highways. They pass slices of landscape — called freeway roadsides — which are valuable land ...

The truly disadvantaged: the inner city, the underclass, and public policy

“The Truly Disadvantaged” challenges liberal orthodoxy in analyzing inner-city problems; discusses in candid terms the social pathologies of the inner-city; establishes a case for moving beyond race-specific policies to ameliorate inner-city social conditions to policies that address ...

Regional forest resource assessment in an ecological framework: the southern United States

Information about forest resources grouped by ecologically homogeneous area can be used to discern relationships between those resources and ecological processes. The author used forest resource data from 0.4-ha plots, and data on population and land area (by county), together with a ...

Public attitudes and knowledge about ecosystem management on Department of Defense land in Florida

New ecosystem management policies at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, emphasize the need for public education and involvement in the changing focus of natural resource practices. To collect baseline information for ecosystem management, we measured and compared the knowledge, attitudes, and interests ...

Protecting people and homes from wildfire in the interior west: Proceedings of the symposium and workshop

Objectives of the Symposium and Workshop on Protecting People and Homes from Wildfire in the Interior West were to examine the problems of protecting wildland homes from fire; reveal the threat of wildfire damage to life and property and the high cost to every taxpayer through increased taxes and ...

Protecting and restoring America's watersheds: status, trends, and initiatives in watershed management

This report considers challenges to watershed health, recent successes of the watershed approach, and obstacles that remain. It was developed by a federal interagency team that worked with local, state, and tribal partners. The report™s descriptions and recommendations represent the opinions ...

Proceedings of the 2003 national urban forest conference

The goal of the 2003 National Urban Forest Conference was to create a conference environment that would teach us how to "engineer green" into our cities. These proceedings capture the growing body of reference materials available for anyone interested in improving the quality of urban environments ...

Proceedings of the 19th Tall Timbers fire ecology conference: Fire in wetlands: a management perspective

The steering committee adopted the topic of this conference, fire in wetlands, because we had heard from a number of public and private land managers who were wrestling with the complex ecological, social, and practical factors related to the burning of wetlands. The purpose of this conference is ...

Private landowner attitudes concerning public access for outdoor recreation: cultural and political factors in the United States

In this article issues concerning national commonalities and regional differences in the United States regarding private land and outdoor recreation are reviewed. Based on the particular cultural and political backgrounds of each region, it is hypothesized that landowners will exhibit degrees of ...

Prescribed fire in the interface: separating the people from the trees

Land managers in Florida rely on prescribed fire to prepare sites for regeneration, improve wildlife habitats, reduce vegetative competition, facilitate timber management activities, and mitigate wildfire risk. More than one million acres of land is scheduled for prescribed fire each year in ...

Prescribed fire and wildlife in southern forests: Proceedings of a symposium

The considerations of fire effects were, by-in-large, restricted to prescribed fire in this Symposium. This was because fire is prescribed for land management purposes to a greater extent in the South than in any other region of the United States. It has been traditional to cite improved ...

Prescribed fire and public support: knowledge gained and attitudes changed in Florida

Florida residents’ knowledge of and attitudes toward wild and prescribed fires were elicited before and after receiving educational information. The results indicate that Florida residents exhibit knowledge and tolerance of prescribed fire similar to respondents of past surveys. Florida ...

Examination of the home destruction in Los Alamos associated with the Cerro Grande Fire

The homes were destroyed as the main body of the Cerro Grande Fire burned past Los Alamos to the north-northeast and then toward the northeast between about 1700 on 5/10 to the early morning hours of 5/11. About 200 single and multi-family structures were totally destroyed or irreparably damaged. ...

Estate planning for forest landowners: what will become of your timberland?

This book has been written to assist nonindustrial private landowners in addressing the considerations enumerated above. It is designed to provide a working knowledge of the Federal estate and gift tax law as it relates to estate planning for timberland owners. The unique character of timber assets ...

Edge-ucation

The problem is that where schools go up development inevitably follows. This seems an obvious point, but it has been only within the past few years that the issue has taken wing around the country. Driven in part by concerns about stemming urban sprawl, in part by movements promoting smaller, ...

Design under fire

Over the years, many landscape architects, planners, and architects around the country have designed residences and communities without consideration for the natural role of fire in the landscape. Regular cycles of fire have been absent from American forests over the past one hundred years, causing ...

Deer habitat in western Costa Rica: impacts of changing technology and land use

White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) numbers on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica probably peaked in the nineteenth century as native dry tropical forest was converted to shrubland and secondary forest. Overhunting and conversion of forest to crops and exotic grasses led to declines in deer ...

Decision support for ecosystem management and ecological assessments

In the face of mounting confrontation and after almost 20 years of increasingly contentious public unhappiness with the management of National Forests, the USDA Forest Service officially adopted ecosystem management as a land management paradigm (Overbay, 1992). Other federal forest land management ...

Current status and trends in timber severance tax legislation in the South

Severance tax programs currently exist in eight States in the South. These laws have been enacted primarily to encourage better forest management and to provide revenues for a variety of forestry initiatives. In most States, either the severer or the primary processor of forest products is ...

Assessing the impacts of forests on human welfare: preliminary results from the Mid-Atlantic Integrated Assessment

This paper presents results from the first phase of the socio-economic assessment of forest ecosystems in the Mid-Atlantic Integrated Assessment (MAIA). First, we present results of the analysis of changes in the distribution of human population and forest land use in the region. Then, trends in ...

Land ownership and land-cover change in the southern Appalachian highlands and the Olympic Peninsula

Social and economic considerations are among the most important drivers of landscape change, yet few studies have addressed economic and environmental influences on landscape structure, and how land ownership may affect landscape dynamics. Watersheds in the Olympic Peninsula, Washington, and the ...

Kudzu in Alabama: history, uses, and control

Almost anyone living in a rural area of Alabama knows what kudzu is and knows that it is a pest. Kudzu in Alabama has also been called 'porch vine, telephone vine, and wonder vine. It is only the visitor or tourist who asks the name of the aggressive and highly visible green vine. Landowners know ...

Is all your rain going down the drain? Look to bioretainment - trees are a solution

Trees are the new technology to retain water on site, some permanently, some temporarily, to slow the flow to waterways. Trees protect water and soil resources. Healthy trees can reduce the amount of runoff and pollutants in creeks, ponds and other receiving waters in three primary ways: leaves, ...

[In press]. Youth and mental health: work projects in urban green space

Thousands of youth participate in forestry and urban greening projects in the United States. Communities are improved, and youth gain benefits. Youth development and mental health research is reported.

[In press]. A site-specific approach for assessing the fire risk to structures at the wildland/urban interface

The essence of the wildland/urban interface tire problem is the loss of homes. The problem is not new, but is becoming increasingly important as more homes with inadequate adherence to safety codes are built at the wildland/urban interface. Current regulatory codes are inflexible. Specifications ...

Perceptions of grass-roots leaders of the agricultural community about wildlife damage on their farms and ranches

I surveyed grass-roots leaders of the agricultural community to assess their perceptions of wildlife damage to their farms and ranches. Their concerns about wildlife damage and perceptions about wildlife are important not only as a means to gain a national perspective of wildlife damage but also ...

Fuel treatments at the wildland-urban interface: common concerns in diverse regions

Forest fuels reduction has the best chance of success if managers understand the factors that influence public acceptance of fuel management. This article reports an analysis of focus group interviews with wildland-urban interface residents at sites selected to provide variation in fire regime, ...

Freeway roadside management: the urban forest beyond the white line

A national survey was conducted in the United States to learn more about public preferences and perceptions regarding forest and vegetation planning and management in urban freeway roadsides. In response to images depicting a visual continuum of landscape management treatments, drivers most ...

Forest-user attitudes toward alternative fire management policies

The formulation and implementation of new fire policies in the national forests depend upon public acceptance. A national survey of organized groups of forest users indicates that, contrary to the concern of many forest managers, considerable support exists for flexible fire suppression policies. ...

Forest ecosystem analysis using a GIS

Forest ecosystem studies have expanded spatially in recent years to address large scale environmental issues. We are using a geographic information system (GIS) to understand and integrate forest processes at landscape to regional spatial scales. This paper presents three diverse research studies ...

Fire in the wildland-urban interface: selecting and maintaining firewise plants for landscaping

One of the major issues in the southern wildland-urban interface is the loss of homes to wildfire. For homeowners who live in an area with a medium to high risk of wildfire, this document provides useful information for protecting your property. While fire control agencies play an important role in ...

Cooperative wildlife management units: achieving hunter, landowner, and wildlife management agency objectives

We surveyed participants in Utah’s alternative, fee-access program for hunt management, Cooperative Wildlife Management Units (CWMUs), during 1994 to determine if the program created satisfying hunting opportunities, improved hunting access to private lands, and increased wildlife habitat. ...

Chinese privet and the feeding ecology of white-tailed deer: the role of an exotic plant

Exotic plants and overabundant wildlife are apparent indicators of disturbed habitats, yet few studies have investigated their interactions. Chinese privet (Ligustrum sinense) is an abundant, exotic shrub in the southeastern United States, yet little is known about its forage value to the ...

How cities use parks to . . . improve public health

People value the time they spend in city parks, whether walking a dog, playing basketball, or having a picnic.Along with these expected leisure amenities, parks can also provide measurable health benefits, from providing direct contact with nature and a cleaner environment, to opportunities for ...

How cities use parks to . . . create safer neighborhoods

For those concerned that green spaces may foster crime and illegal activity, evidence now exists that the opposite may be true. When adjacent to residential areas, green spaces have been shown to create neighborhoods with fewer violent and property crimes and where neighbors tend to support and ...

How cities use parks for . . . green infrastructure

Just as growing communities need to upgrade and expand their built infrastructure of roads, sewers, and utilities, they also need to upgrade and expand their green infrastructure, the interconnected system of green spaces that conserves natural ecosystem values and functions, sustains clear air and ...

How cities use parks for . . . economic development

Parks provide intrinsic environmental, aesthetic, and recreation benefits to our cities. They are also a source of positive economic benefits.They enhance property values, increase municipal revenue, bring in homebuyers and workers, and attract retirees. At the bottom line, parks are a good ...

How cities use parks for . . . community revitalization

Parks are complex elements of a city.They can serve scores of different uses, may be specialized in their function, or can simply provide visual appeal for residents. However they work, they act to define the shape and feel of a city and its neighborhoods.They also function as a conscious tool for ...

How cities use parks for . . . community engagement

Community engagement is the process of working collaboratively with individuals and groups to achieve specific goals. For parks and open spaces, community engagement allows mayors and public officials to directly involve their constituencies in the ongoing design, planning, and management of these ...

Homeowner perspectives on fire hazard, responsibility, and management strategies at the wildland-urban interface

Following a survey of forest homeowners in rural Michigan to assess the value of reducing the risk of damage from wildfires at the wildland-urban interface, focus-group discussions were conducted with a subset of survey participants to learn about their perceptions concerning specific components of ...

The effects of the federal estate tax on nonindustrial private landowners: Proceedings of the Society of American Foresters national convention

The federal estate tax is designed to tax the accumulation and transfer of wealth. Between 1987 and 1997, the estate tax was as high as 55% of assets above $600,000. Timber and land values have increased significantly in many areas of the U.S. in recent years, and in some circumstances heirs ...

The effects of population growth on timber management and inventories in Virginia

Expanding human populations may have important effects on the availability of timber from private lands in the South. To examine the effects of development on timber supply, the authors compared the density of populations and various site variables with expert opinions on the future location of ...

Modeling potential structure ignitions from flame radiation exposure with implications for wildland/urban interface fire management

Residential losses associated with wildland fires have become a serious international fire protection problem. The radiant heat flux from burning vegetation adjacent to a structure is a principal ignition factor. A thermal radiation and ignition model estimated structure ignition potential using ...

Using population data to address the human dimensions of environmental change

In recent years researchers and policy makers have identified population-environment interactions as crucial to issues of ecology, economic development, and human welfare. It seems clear that human populations and demands on the environment are driving ecological change in such areas as global ...

Trees, parking and green law: strategies for sustainability

This report is intended to be a resource tool for concerned citizens and professionals in communities who are acting on one facet of sustainability - urban parking lots. The report contains scientific information about environmental impacts of paving in cities, and provides an overview of legal ...

Wildlife conservation in urban greenways of the mid-southeastern United States

Goals related to wildlife conservation are stated or implied in many urban greenway plans, but the actual wildlife conservation value of urban greenways is unclear. We surveyed 72 km. of greenway consisting of 38 different greenway segments in six cities in the mid-southeastern United States to ...

Socio-economic characteristics of prospective nonindustrial private timber sellers in east Texas

Data provided by 317 nonindustrial private forest owners suggest that in the East Texas region, future timber sellers will tend to exhibit the following characteristics: (1) their forest holdings will be 100 or more acres in size; (2) they will have owned forest land for 10 or more years; (3) they ...

How cities use parks to . . . help children learn

Childhood is a holistic process, different for each individual child. Many children do not learn effectively exclusively within a classroom.They need alternative, hands-on learning environments to match their varied learning styles. Test-driven education mandates often do not emphasize children's ...

The smoke dilemma: a head on collision!

A head-on collision is imminent! The drivers are people. The vehicles are special interests. The road is smoke! Those concerned about air quality ride in the first car; those concerned about natural resource management ride in the second. In this paper, the authors look at what smoke is and why it ...

The legal environment for forestry prescribed burning in the South: regulatory programs and voluntary guidelines

Southern States vary widely in their approaches to regulation and liability protection for prescribed burning. Most State air quality laws exempt prescribed burning from many open burning rules; however, monetary penalties are established for the rules that do apply. Forest protection laws address ...

Regional assessment of ozone sensitive tree species using bioindicator plants

Tropospheric ozone occurs at phytotoxic levels in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. Quantifying possible regional-scale impacts of ambient ozone on forest tree species is difficult and is confounded by other factors, such as moisture and light, which influence the ...

Reducing the wildland fire threat to homes: where and how much?

Understanding how ignitions occur is critical for effectively mitigating home fire losses during wildland fires. The threat of life and property losses during wildland fires is a significant issue for Federal, State, and local agencies that have responsibilities involving homes within and adjacent ...

Psychological contributions to achieving an ecologically sustainable future for humanity

The most serious long-term threat facing the world is the danger that human actions are producing irreversible, harmful changes to the environmental conditions that support life on Earth. If this problem is not overcome, there may be no viable world for our descendants to inhabit. Because this ...

Protection of water resources, water quality and aquatic ecosystems

This fact sheet addresses the relevance of Chapter 18 of Agenda 21 for state governments. Chapter 18 discusses protection of the quality and supply of freshwater resources and subsequently, the application of integrated approaches to the development, management, and use of water resources.

Protecting water quality form urban runoff: clean water is everybody's business

In urban and suburban areas, much of the land surface is covered by buildings and pavement, which do not allow rain and snowmelt to soak into the ground. Instead, most developed areas rely on storm drains to carry large amounts of runoff from roofs and paved areas to nearby waterways. The ...

Prescribed fire impacts on recreational wildlands: a status review and assessment of research needs

The existing literature on wildland fire is assessed in terms of both the biological and social impacts of prescription fire on recreational wildands. Gaps in the literature are noted and future areas of needed research are suggested, with particular emphasis on the Rocky Mountains and adjacent ...

Place of intensive forestry in ecosystem management

As population increases, the needs for products from the forest increase, along with the needs for recreation, wildlife, and aesthetics. Although some of these products can also be produced by substitutes, such as plastic, steel, or aluminum, forest products have the desirable property of coming ...

Fertile ground for community: inner-city neighborhood common spaces

Research suggests that the formation of neighborhood social ties (NSTs) may substantially depend on the informal social contact which occurs in neighborhood common spaces, and that in inner-city neighborhoods where common spaces are often barren no-man’s lands, the presence of trees and grass ...

Expanding and evaluating motives for environmentally responsible behavior

This article contends that while striving to promote environmentally responsible behavior, we have focused attention too narrowly on just two classes of motives. There is a need to expand the range of motives available to practitioners and to provide a framework within which motives can be ...

Estimating the profitability of your non-timber forestland enterprise

The purpose of this publication is to introduce the landowner to the financial concepts necessary to properly evaluate alternative forestry enterprises. This publication emphasizes the financial benefits and costs. However, landowners often undertake projects for a variety of reasons other than ...

Environment and crime in the inner city: does vegetation reduce crime?

Although vegetation has been positively linked to fear of crime and crime in a number of settings, recent findings in urban residential areas have hinted at a possible negative relationship: Residents living in “greener” surroundings report lower levels of fear, fewer incivilities, ...

Effects of fuels treatment on wildfire severity

We investigated the severity of four recent wildfires that burned into existing fuel treatment areas. Treatments included repeated prescribed fires, single prescribed fires, debris removal, and mechanical thinning both with and without slash removal. All treatments were accomplished less than 10 ...

Ecosystem management education for public lands

An ecosystem management education program targeted at specific audiences was designed for Eglin Air Force Base in northwest Florida. The program was developed through a comprehensive, adaptive model, which incorporated data form baseline surveys and input form natural resource managers and key ...

Ecological, political and social challenges of prescribed fire restoration in east Texas pineywoods ecosystems: a case study

The effectiveness of prescribed fire restoration of forested sites in three state parks in east Texas, USA was studied. Two sites consisted of mixed shortleaf (Pinus echinata Mill.) or loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) and broadleaf overstoreys. The third site was a longleaf pine (Pinus palustris ...

California wildfire landscaping

California Wildfire Landscaping is the first attempt to cover all the essential factors in one handbook written in language understandable to homeowners. It also deals with the aesthetic factors that are so important to residential sites, and where firescaping ordinances are in effect, it sheds ...

Benefits of urban trees

Trees are major capital assets in America's cities and towns. Just as streets, sidewalks, sewers, public buildings and recreational facilities are a part of a community's infrastructure, so are publicly owned trees. Trees-and, collectively, the urban forest-are important assets that require care ...

Assessing forest scenic beauty impacts of insects and management

The paper discusses relationships between scenic beauty perceptions and certain forest characteristics such as the presence and dominance of large trees, tree species composition, and stand age. Stand treatments such as burning, harvesting, treating slash, and regenerating harvested stands also ...

Introduction to urban and community forestry programs in the United States

Urban forestry is the science and management of forest resources in cities and urbanizing areas ranging from single trees to groves, on public and private property. Urban forestry in the United States has evolved from a street tree focus in the early 20th century, to sophisticated tools and ...

[In press]. Ergonomics of the city: green infrastructure and social benefits

Infrastructure systems dependably deliver diverse products and services. Green infrastructure should include ergonomics, thus delivering social AND environmental services. Ergonomics of the city can expand impact and appeal of green infrastructure.

Nonmarket economic impacts of forest insect pests: a literature review

This report summarizes the results of research on the nonmarket economic impacts of forest insect pests. The majority of the research reports are journal articles or fulfillment of three USDA Forest Service research contracts. This report also reviews the foundations for methodologies used and ...

Non-timber forest products enterprises in the south: perceived distribution and implications for sustainable forest management

Forests of the southern United States are the source of a great diversity of flora, much of which is gathered to produce non-timber forest products (NTFPs). These products are made from resources that grow under the forest canopy as trees, herbs, shrubs, vines, moss and even lichen. They occur ...

Forests, hydrology, and water quality: impacts of silvicultural practices

This paper explains the potential effects of forest management practices on water quality and hydrology, and presents effective ways to minimize or eliminate these effects, including Best Management Practice (BMP) compliance.

Flagler horticulture: making your landscape more resistant to wildfires

Prescribed, controlled burning still is the best method of removing fuel buildup to help prevent catastrophic fires in the wildland-urban interface and to increase the safety of residents and structures when a fire occurs. There are also suggested practices individual homeowners can take on their ...