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ABOUT FORESTRY N E W S L E TT E R
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Steve Nix’s Forestry Site at About.com
http://forestry.about.com
June 11, 2000
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IN THIS ISSUE
* New Feature: The Fair Maidenhair-tree
* New Quiz
* You Talk Back
* Best About Forestry Link: State Conservation Departments
* Site of the Week: Helicopter Loggers Association
* Tree of the Week: Overcup Oak
* Forestry News
* Related Guides
(AOL users: scroll to the bottom of this newsletter for AOL-friendly,
clickable links.)
------------------ New Feature ----------------
THE FAIR MAIDENHAIR-TREE
Ginkgo biloba is known as a “living fossil tree.” Also referred to as the
maidenhair-tree, ginkgo extract is marketed as a supplement that improves
memory. Read more about this fascinating tree:
http://forestry.about.com/science/forestry/library/weekly/aa061100a.htm
------------------ New Quiz ----------------
Try your hand at this new quiz about ginkgo biloba:
http://forestry.about.com/science/forestry/blqzbilo.htm
------------------ You Talk Back --------------
REGENERATING PAPER BIRCH AND OAK
“What is the easiest way to regenerate these trees?” asks a poster. Give your
opinion:
http://forums.about.com/ab-forestry/messages/?msg=1184.1
DOUBLE CANOPY
What is meant by the term “double canopy?”:
http://forums.about.com/ab-forestry/messages/?msg=1192.1
BROWN OR ASIAN BEETLE?
Which pest is attacking the red spruce in Nova Scotia?:
http://forums.about.com/ab-forestry/messages/?msg=1159.1
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POST YOUR OWN
Just click "Post New" on the Forestry Forum to start your own forestry
discussion and your post might end up in next week’s Newsletter or on the
Forestry home page.
http://forums.about.com/ab-forestry/start/
------------------ Best About Forestry Link ------------------
Here's a sample link added to my comprehensive collection of
Netlinks. Visit the complete directory at:
http://forestry.about.com/mlibrary.htm
STATE CONSERVATION DEPARTMENTS
I’ve compiled a set of links to conservation departments from around the United
States:
http://forestry.about.com/msubcon.htm
------------------ Site of the Week --------------
Each week I’ll highlight a forestry related site that I think you’ll enjoy
visiting.
The HELICOPTER LOGGERS ASSOCIATION is dedicated to environmentally sound timber
harvesting and exceptionally safe harvesting operations. Visit them at:
http://www.hla.org/
------------------ Tree of the Week ------------------
OVERCUP OAK (Quercus lyrata), a member of the white oak family, is very tolerant
of flooding and grows slowly on poorly drained flood plains and swamplands of
the southeastern United States. The acorn of this tree may be entirely covered
by a scaly cup, hence the common name “overcup.” Find out more about this
species at:
http://forestry.about.com/science/forestry/library/tree/blovero.htm
------------------Forestry News ----------------
Read a report on “The Changing Role of Timber Harvest in Our National Forests”
from USFS Chief Mike Dombeck. -- USFS
http://www.fs.fed.us/intro/speech/20000522-afpa.html
The Society of American Foresters and the National Association of State
Foresters have released a report questioning the Environmental Protection
Agency’s proposed water quality rules for forestry. -- SAF
http://www.safnet.org/archive/tmdl60900.doc
------------------Related Guides ----------------
Try some of these online weekend projects from Landscaping Guide Mary Anne
Lynch:
http://landscaping.about.com/library/weekly/aa051600.htm
Do you yearn for a low-maintenance lawn? Gardening Guide Deborah Simpson has an
idea on how to get one:
http://gardening.about.com/library/weekly/aa052100a.htm
-------- Clickable Links for AOL Users -------
<a href="
http://forestry.about.com/science/forestry/library/weekly/aa061100a.htm
">Fair
Maidenhair-tree</a>
<a href=" http://forestry.about.com/science/forestry/blqzbilo.htm">New
Quiz</a>
<a href=" http://forums.about.com/ab-forestry/messages/?msg=1184.1">Regenerating
Paper Birch and Oak</a>
<a href=" http://forums.about.com/ab-forestry/messages/?msg=1192.1">Double
Canopy</a>
<a href=" http://forums.about.com/ab-forestry/messages/?msg=1159.1">Brown
or Asian
Beetle?</a>
<a href=" http://forestry.about.com/msubcon.htm ">State Conservation
Departments</a>
<a href=" http://www.hla.org/">Helicopter Loggers Association</a>
<a href=" http://forestry.about.com/science/forestry/library/tree/blovero.htm
">Overcup Oak</a>
<a href=" http://www.fs.fed.us/intro/speech/20000522-afpa.html
">Harvesting
Report</a>
<a href=" http://www.safnet.org/archive/tmdl60900.doc ">EPA Proposal
Questioned</a>
<a href=" http://landscaping.about.com/library/weekly/aa051600.htm
">Weekend
Projects</a>
<a href=" http://gardening.about.com/library/weekly/aa052100a.htm
">Low-maintenance Lawns</a>
SPREAD THE WORD
If you enjoy this newsletter, tell a friend.
Yours,
Steve Nix
About.com Guide to Forestry
http://forestry.about.com
forestry.guide@about.com
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