These CD's may be purchased by any governmental, school, non-profit organization, or university. The acreage represents almost a 90-percent decrease from an estimated 2.1 million acres in 1935. For economic, aesthetic, and other reasons, Mississippi landowners are becoming increasingly interested in restoring longleaf pine to those sites where it originally grew. This offers a greater challenge than regenerating loblolly or slash pines because of the exacting conditions required by longleaf. A publication written by Dr. Glenn Hughes of the Mississippi State University Extension Service focuses on factors that led to longleaf's decline, reasons for the renewed interest in longleaf, and landowner options in regenerating longleaf pine.
Many timberland owners value their land for more than just timber.
They realize that the land can provide many benefits and that management plans can be designed to achieve these benefits. A North Carolina survey shows that aesthetics is the primary reason many people own timberland. Other benefits include recreation, timber production, water quality protection, and wildlife preservation. This publication, prepared by Dr. Robert Bardon of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service will help woodland owners become familiar with these steps, with the concepts of woodscaping, and with ways to integrate concerns for wildlife, beauty, and resource management in a manner that is compatible with current land-use activities. Pesticides and the Forest Environment Conference Scheduled Pesticides are important tools in the management of forests, tree nurseries and seed orchards.