Managing Your Woodlot:
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A series of video tutorials for landowners, teachers and others interested
in environmentally responsible woodlot management. Purchasing
videos
- How It Grows: Learn how forests get started, where different
types of trees grow best, what factors affect tree growth, and how woodlots
change over time. 23 minutes
- Building Roads: Demonstrates where to locate woodlot roads for
desirable access without adverse effect on other resources. The tape also
details the installation of water control devices, such as water bars,
culverts and broad-base dips. 19 minutes
- Helping It Grow: Provides guidelines for selecting the right
crop tree for your woodlot. This video also describes tree quality and
factors that affect tree and log grades. Defects are illustrated to show
the reasons why quality is reduced. 23 minutes
- Harvesting and Renewing It: Addresses anxieties that woodlot
owners have about the impact of cutting on their woodlot. Information
on how intermediate and reproduction cutting practices influence changes
in vegetation as well as impacts on wildlife, water, and aesthetics. 20
minutes
- Selling Timber: Offers an in-depth understanding of the timber
sale process. 26 minutes
- Best Management Practices: Demonstrates the guidelines known
as Best Management Practices (BMPs) to reduce impacts of timber harvesting
activities on soil erosion and water quality. 27 minutes
- Being a Good Forest Steward: Teaches the principles of modern
silviculture to help landowners maximize returns from forest resources
within the implied constraints of good stewardship. 26 minutes
- Water in the Forest: Provides a basic understanding of how water
moves through the forest ecosystem. Appropriate for high school science
programs, introductory college courses in natural resource management,
or introductory forest hydrology courses for professionals. 23 minutes
- The Changing Forest - Ecology & Silviculture: Presents basic
concepts of ecology that serve as the guiding principles of silvicultural
systems used to regenerate eastern hardwood forests. 36 minutes
Purchasing videos
In West Virginia contact: Appalachian Hardwood Center, West Virginia
University, P.O. Box 6125, Morgantown, WV, 26505; 304/293-7550 ext. 2450
or ext. 2458
Outside West Virginia contact: National Woodland Owners' Association,
Suite 210, 374 Maple Avenue East, Vienna, VA, 22180; 703/255-2700
Last modified
July 18, 2001
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