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Diseases
  • Annosus Root Rot
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  • Prescribed Burning for Disease Control
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Endangered Species
Red Hills Salamander, photo credit USGS
  • Rare Species Inventory List
  • Amphibians
  • Black Warrior Waterdog
  • Dusky Gopher Frog
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  • Birds
  • Eastern Black Rail
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  • Red-cockaded Woodpecker
  • Red Knot
  • Wood Stork
Piping Plover, photo credit USFWS
  • Crustaceans
  • Slenderclaw Crayfish
  • Fish
  • All Endangered Fish
  • Invertebrates
  • All Endangered Invertebrates
  • Mammals
  • Alabama Beach Mouse
  • Gray Bat
  • Indiana Bat
  • Northern Long Eared Bat
Whorled Sunflower, photo credit
Dr. Christopher Brown
Georgia Gwinnett College
  • Plants
  • Alabama Canebrake Pitcher Plant
  • Alabama Leather Flower
  • Alabama Streak Sorus Fern
  • American Chaffseed
  • American Hart's Tongue Fern
  • Fringed Campion
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  • Gentian Pinkroot
  • Harperella
  • Georgia Rockcress
  • Green Pitcher Plant
  • Kral's Water Plantain
  • Leafy-Prairie Clover
  • Little Amphianthus
  • Louisiana Quillwort
  • Lyrate Bladder-pod
  • Mohr's Barbara's Buttons
  • Morefield's Leather Flower
  • Pondberry
  • Price's Potato Bean
  • Relict Trillium
  • Tennessee Yellow-eyed Grass
  • White-Fringeless Orchid
  • Whorled Sunflower
  • Reptiles
  • Alabama Red-bellied turtle
  • Black Pine Snake
  • Eastern Indigo Snake
  • Flattened Musk Turtle
  • Gopher Tortoise
  • Sea Turtles
Fire Publications
  • 2012 Nation Prescribed Fire Use Survey Report
  • 5 Ways to Protect your Forestland from Wildfire
  • 50 Ways to Protect Your Woodland Home from Wildfire
  • Fire in the South
  • Fire Management and Invasive Plants
  • Living with Fire
Herbicides
  • Herbaceous Weed Control
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Insects
  • Aphids
  • Bagworm
  • Black Turpentine Beetle
  • Deodar Weevil
  • Emerald Ash Borer
  • Eastern Tent Caterpillar
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  • Fall Webworm
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  • Ips Bark Beetle
  • Nantucket Pine Tip Moth
  • Pine Sawflies
  • Pine Weevils
  • Scalping for the Control of White-fringed Beetle
  • Southern Pine Beetle Biology and Prevention
  • Southern Pine Beetle Control Methods
Invasive Plant Species
  • Autumn Olive
  • Bamboos
  • Chinaberry Tree
  • Cogongrass
  • Eastern Baccharis
  • Japanese Climbing Fern
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  • Kudzu
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  • Stop Cogongrass Hitchhikers
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Life History
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Management Publications
  • 100 Forest Trees of Alabama
  • Alabama's Forests, 2015
  • Backyard Woods: Make a Master Plan
  • Profitable Farms and Woodlands
  • Southern Forests: A Legacy of Nations
  • Stewardship Handbook for Family Forest Owners
  • Woodlands Management Course Order Form
Recreation & Aesthetics
  • Forest Trails
  • Landscaping for Songbirds
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  • Protecting Sensitive Areas
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Resources
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Storm Recovery
  • Assessing Timber Damage
  • Casualty Loss Deductions for Timber
  • Casualty Loss Tax Deduction 2011
  • Establishing Priorities for Salvaging
  • Evaluating Storm Damaged Landscape Trees
  • Forest Health Concerns Resulting from Storm Damaged Timber
  • Salt Spray Damage from Hurricane Winds
  • Utilization of Storm Damaged Timber
Tax Tips & Investment
  • Estate Planning for Forest Landowners: What Will Become of Your Timberland
  • Federal Income Tax on Timber
  • Forest Landowners' Guide to the Federal Income Tax
  • Forest Management Investments
  • Management Journal
  • Tax Tips 2018
Timber
  • Harvest
  • Harvesting for Natural Pine Regeneration
  • Harvesting Options
  • Selling Timber
  • Selling Your Timber
  • Shade Tolerance
  • Thinning Pine Stands
  • Regeneration
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  • Hardwood Regeneration
  • How to Purchase Seedlings
  • Planting Hardwood Seedlings
  • Planting Pine Seedlings
  • The Need for Regeneration
  • Site Preparation
  • Bedding
  • Bushhogging Light Disking or Mowing
  • Combination 3-in-1 Plow Specifications
  • Mechanical Site Preparation
  • Prescribed Burning for Site Preparation
  • Roller Drum Chopping
  • Scalping
  • Shearing and Raking into Windrows
  • Site Preparation and Natural Regeneration
  • Site Preparation Methods
  • Subsoiling
  • Timber Stand Improvement
  • Hardwood Crop Tree Release
  • Keys to Successfully Planting & Establishing Longleaf Pine
  • Permanent Firebreaks
  • Precommercial Thinning
  • Prescribed Burning
  • Prescribed Burning Longleaf Pine
  • Pruning Pines
  • Site Preparation and Competition Control Guidelines for Hardwood Tree Plantings
  • Southern Pine Beetle Prevention Thinning Specifications
  • Timber Stand Improvement Practice Options
Wildlife Management
  • Bobwhite Quail Call Count Surveys
  • Calculating Wildlife Opening Sizes
  • Dove Field Management
  • Eastern Cottontail Rabbit
  • Hunting Leases and Permits
  • Managing Beaver Ponds for Waterfowl
  • Managing Cropland for Upland Wildlife
  • Managing for Eastern Wild Turkey
  • Managing for White-tailed Deer
  • Moist Soil Management for Waterfowl
  • Permanent Wildlife Plantings
  • Quailbook
  • Roadside Management for Wildlife
  • Strip Disking Grasslands and Old Fields
  • Tree Squirrel Life History and Management
  • Wood Duck Box Construction

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