As a landowner you can conduct management activities that improve the health and quality of your forest. These activities focus on improving the quality of the trees by improving soil quality, reducing the number of trees competing for resources and other factors. These publications and resources are available for you to gain a better understanding of the activities that one may carry out related to forest productivity. Select the publication you want to read. Many of the publications are in pdf format and are available free for downloading. A free pdf reader can be downloaded from Adobe.

• Accomplishing Forest Stewardship with hand-Applied Herbicides (AG-530)
• Crop Tree Management in North Carolina (WON-33)
• Forests as an Alternative for Poultry Manure Application (AG-739W)
• Forests as an Alternative for Swine Manure Application (AG-740W)
• Forest Land Enhancement Practices for North Carolina
• Forest Soils and Site Index (WON-7)
• Nutrition Management for Longleaf Pinestraw (WON-30)
• Pruning Woodland Trees (WON-34)
• Thinning Pine Stands (WON-13)
• Using Animal Manures in Forest Fertilization (AG-738W)

OTHER LINKS

• Forest Productivity  provides information regarding the issues and factors that relate to the productivity of our nation’s forests
• NC State University Tree Improvement Program
• NC Forest Service Nursery & Tree Improvement Program