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Pest and pesticide management on southern forests

Federal law requires certification for all commercial pesticide applicators. The law also requires private applicator certification for the purchase or application of "restricted use" pesticides. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has set minimum competency standards for certification of pesticide applicators. These standards include a practical...

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James H. Miller; Ken L. McNabb; Brad Barber; Larry M. Bishop; Michael L. Thompson; John W. Taylor

Year:

1994

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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Region, Management Bulletin R8-MB 60.

Effects of site preparation on timber and non-timber values of loblolly pine plantations

This study evaluated the timber and non-timber values of the forest stands generated by four site preparation methods tested in the Tuskegee National Forest 15 yr earlier. The timber values of the forest stands were assessed with the timber yields predicted by the SE TWIGS model. Non-timber benefits were evaluated through the Contingent Valuation Method. Two hundred...

Author(s):

Jianbang Gan; Stephen H. Kolison; James H. Miller; Tasha M. Hargrove

Year:

1998

Keywords:

Economic analysis, Contingent valuation, Multi-attribute assessment, National forest, Regeneration

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Forest Ecology and Management. 107: 47-53.

Public Preferences of Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda) Stands Generated by Different Site Preparation Methods

In recent decades, the public's demand for non-timber products and services from forests has dramatically increased. To meet these diverse demands, particularly from public forests, has called for the critical evaluation of non-timber as well as timber benefits of forest resources. However, it has been a challenge to elicit and quantify public preferences for non...

Author(s):

Jianbang Gan; Stephen H. Kolison; James H. Miller

Year:

1998

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Wagner, RG. and D.G. Thompsou (camp.). 1998. Third International Conference on Forest Vegetation Ma~agcmcnt: Popular summaries. No. 141.

A Regional Study on the Influence of Woody and Herbaceous Competition on Early Loblolly Pine Growth

A common study design has been installed at 14 locatoins Southwide to track the growth of loblolly pine established with four different competition control treatments: (a) no control, (b) woody control, (c) herbaceous control, and (d) total control after site preparation. This regionwide investigation is the Competition Omission Monitoring Project (COMP). During the...

Author(s):

James H. Miller; Bruce R. Zutter; Shepard M. Zedaker; M. Boyd Edward; James D. Haywood

Year:

1991

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Southern Journal of Applied Forestry 15 (1991) : 169-179

Developing and evaluating rapid field methods to estimate peat carbon

Many international protocols (e.g., REDD+) are developing inventories of ecosystem carbon stocks and fluxes at country and regional scales, which can include peatlands. As the only nationally implemented field inventory and remeasurement of forest soils in the US, the USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis Program (FIA) samples the top 20 cm of organic soils...

Author(s):

Rodney A. Chimner; Cassandra A. Ott; Charles H. Perry; Randall K. Kolka

Year:

2014

Keywords:

Peat, Coring, Carbon, Sampling, Soil

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Wetlands. 34(6): 1241-1246.

Wisconsin's forest resources, 2005

The annual forest inventory of Wisconsin continues, and this document reports 2001-05 moving averages for most variables and comparisons between 2000 and 2005 for growth, removals, and mortality. Summary resource tables can be generated through the Forest Inventory Mapmaker website at http://ncrs2.fs.fed.us/4801/fiadb/index. htm. Estimates from this inventory show a...

Author(s):

Charles, H. (Hobie) Perry; Gary J. Brand

Year:

2006

Keywords:

annual inventory, forest land, timberland, forest type, volume, biomass, growth, removals, mortality

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Resour. Bull. NRS-2. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 32 p.

An indicator of tree migration in forests of the eastern United States

Changes in tree species distributions are a potential impact of climate change on forest ecosystems. The examination of tree species shifts in forests of the eastern United States largely has been limited to simulation activities due to a lack of consistent, long-term forest inventory datasets. The goal of this study was to compare current geographic distributions of...

Author(s):

C.W. Woodall; C.M. Oswalt; J.A. Westfall; C.H. Perry; M.D. Nelson; A.O. Finley

Year:

2009

Keywords:

climate change, tree migration, United States, forest, seedlings, latitude

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Forest Ecology and Management. 257: 1434-1444.

A field guide for the identification of invasive plants in southern forests

Invasions of nonnative plants into forests of the Southern United States continue to go unchecked and only partially unmonitored. These infestations increasingly erode forest productivity, hindering forest use and management activities, and degrading diversity and wildlife habitat. Often called nonnative, exotic, nonindigenous, alien, or noxious weeds, they occur as...

Author(s):

James H. Miller; Erwin B. Chambliss; Nancy J. Loewenstein

Year:

2010

Keywords:

Alien plants, exotic weeds, forest noxious plants, invasive exotic plants, invasive nonindigenous plants

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General Technical Report SRS–119. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 126 p.

The Dynamic General Vegetation Model MC1 over the United States and Canada at a 5-arcminute resolution: model inputs and outputs

Land managers need to include climate change in their decisionmaking, but the climate models that project future climates operate at spatial scales that are too coarse to be of direct use. To create a dataset more useful to managers, soil and historical climate were assembled for the United States and Canada at a 5-arcminute grid resolution. Nine CMIP3 future climate...

Author(s):

Ray Drapek; John B. Kim; Ronald P. Neilson

Year:

2015

Keywords:

MC1, Dynamic Global Vegetation Model, climate change, carbon, fire, streamflow.

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Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-904. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 57 p.

Physical properties of forest soils

Why Are Physical Properties of the Soil Important? The soil quality indicator, when combined with other data collected by the FIA program, can indicate the current rates of soil erosion, the extent and intensity of soil compaction, and some basic physical properties of the forest floor and the top 20 cm of soil. In this report, two particular physical properties of the...

Author(s):

Charles H. Perry; Michael C. Amacher

Year:

2007

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In: Forest health monitoring: 2005 national technical report. General Technical Report SRS-104. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station.

Chemical properties of forest soils

Why Is Soil Chemistry Important? The soil quality indicator was initially developed as a tool for assessing the current status of forest soil resources and predicting potential changes in soil properties. Soil chemistry data can be used to diagnose tree vigor and document the deposition of atmospheric pollutants (e.g., acid rain). This chapter focuses on two chemical...

Author(s):

Charles H. Perry; Michael C. Amacher

Year:

2007

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In: Forest health monitoring: 2005 national technical report. General Technical Report SRS-104. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station.

Estimating leaf area and above-ground biomass of forest regeneration areas using a corrected normalized difference vegetation index

The objective of this study was to investigate the regression relations between vegetation indices derived from remotely-sensed data of single and mixed forest regeneration plots. Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) seedlings, sweelgum (Liquidambar styraciflua L.) seedlings and broomsedge (Andropogon virginicus L.)...

Author(s):

Tommy L. Coleman; James H. Miller; Bruce R. Zutter

Year:

1992

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In: Proceedings of the ASPRS/ASCM/RT 92 Convention - Monitoring and Mapping Global Change. Vol. 4. Remote Sensing and Data Acquisition. 3-8 August 1992. Washington, D.C. [Bethesda, MD]: Am. Sot. Photogram. & Rem. Sens.: 214-230.

Alabama's timber industry-an assessment of timber product output and use, 2005

In 2005, roundwood output from Alabama?s forests totaled 1.14 billion cubic feet. Mill byproducts generated from primary manufacturers amounted to 432 million cubic feet. Almost all plant residues were used primarily for fuel and fiber products. Pulpwood was the leading roundwood product at 563 million cubic feet; saw logs ranked second at 425 million cubic feet;...

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