Cogongrass: A New Threat to South Georgia
Cogongrass is a major invasive grass spreading through open lands and forests across the southeastern United States. Mississippi, Florida, and Alabama already have large infestations that damage both natural ecosystems and land?management efforts. Native to Southeast Asia, it was brought to the U.S. in the early 1900s for erosion control ...
Pine Bark Beetles
Pine bark beetles cost Georgia landowners from $100,000 to more than $25 million each year. Bark beetle populations and their subsequent damage vary tremendously between years and locations (Figure 1). Their attacks are not limited to timber production stands: they also attack and kill many high-value yard, ornamental, seed orchard ...
Southeastern US Coastal Plain soil series lists by modified Cooperative Research in Forest Fertilization (CRIFF) soil groups for use in loblolly and slash pine site index estimation
This paper lists the soil series within each CRIFF soil group and modified CRIFF soil groups to aid forest landowners, practicing foresters and land managers in decision-making in their site prepared, planted loblolly and slash pine stands in the southeastern US Coastal Plain.
Gypsy Moth in the United States: An Atlas
This atlas includes 52 maps that document the historical spread of gypsy moth from 1900 to the present, historical forest defoliation in the Northeast from 1984 to the present, and the distribution of susceptible forests in the conterminous United States. These maps should be useful for planning activities to limit ...
Plant Parasites of Tree Roots
The impact of parasitic plants on stand and tree growth is not known in detail, except for a few species which attack young trees. Young slash pine in at least one Florida plantation have been killed by the root parasite senna seymeria (Seymeria cassioides). Commandra umbellata can parasitize roots of ...