Publications

Stewardship/Management

• Best Management Practices for Water Quality - Field Guide
• Do You Own Forestland? (brochure)
• Enhancing Forest Stewardship
                    (includes articles about forest planning, foresters, wildlife, timber sales, etc.)
• Ecologically Based Forest Management
• Forestry BMPs
• Gas information
• Getting started with Forestry Series
• Keeping Records of Forest Management Activities
• Regenerating Hardwood Forests: Managing Competing Plants, Deer, and Light
• Selecting a forester
• Understanding Forest Ecosystems
• The Northeastern Forest Regeneration Handbook
• Working in Your Woodlot – Suggestions for Getting Involved and Improving Your Property

Forest Pesticides and Vegetation Management

• Herbicides and Forest Vegetation Management
• Controlling beech sprouting through limited use application of herbicides
• Controlling Beech Root and Stump Sprouts Using the Cut-Stump Treatment

Forest Health and Management

• Private Woodland Management in Anticipation of Emerald Ash Borer
• Forest Management with Emerald Ash Borer - 2006 Ohio State University Extension
• Insects that look like Emerald Ash Borer
• References for Disease and Insects

ForestConnect - Fact Sheet Series

• Controlling Invasive Species in Woodlots
• Enhancing Wildlife Habitat
• Forest Gardening
• How to Choose Firewood Trees
• The Stewardship Ethic: A Guide for Using Your Land
• Tree and Forest Health

Conservation Circulars

• Accelerated Seasoning of Firewood
• Assistance for New York Forest Owners
• Forest Management by Compartments
• NY Woodlands, Real Property Taxation and Section 480-a
• Selling and Scaling Sawlogs

Liability

• Liability Considerations for NY Woodland Owners
• Recreational Access and Owner Liability

Logging/lumber

• A Guide to Logging Aesthetics
• BMPs during Timber Harvesting Operations
• Call Before You Cut
• Crop Tree Management Quick Reference
• Crop-tree Release Thinning in 65 - year old Commercial Cherry Maple Stands
• Diameter-Limit Cutting and Silviculture in Northeaster Forests:
              A Primer for Landowners, Practitioners, and Policymakers
• Firewood From Woodlot to Woodpile
• Heating with Wood and Coal
• Just Say No
• Lumber from Local Woodlots
• Method for Applying Group Selection in Central Appalachian Hardwoods
• Selling timber
• Timber Management for Small Woodlands
• Timber Sale Contract Example
• Timber Sale Prospectus - Example
• Woodlot thinning

Maple

• Maple Syrup Production for Beginners (booklet)
• Sugarbush thinning

Miscellaneous

• An Assessment of Family Forest Owners in New York State, 2007
• Forest equipment list
• Forest Stewardship Terminology - Glossary
• Forester and Landowner Contract Example
• Balancing Ecology and Economics - A Start-up Guide for Forest Owner Cooperation
• Income opportunities
• Know Your Trees
• Nature Trails Guides to Environmental Understanding
• Nursery listing
• Tree Planting attachment for a Tractor
• 2007 New England Guide To Chemical Weed and Brush Control in Christmas Trees
• Cut stump herbicide control of beech, Kochenderfer et al. 2006, Northern Journal of Applied Forestry

Wildlife

• Attracting Hummingbirds to Your Yard
• Enhancement of wildlife habitat on private lands
• Managing Small Woodlands for Wildlife
• New York State Wildlife
• Resistance of Woody Ornamental Plants to Deer Damage
• Wildlife Habitat Enhancement

Online Forestry Publications at Other Land Grant Universities

• Michigan State University
• Penn State University
• Perdue University
• University of Maryland
• University of Tennessee

Miscellaneous
U.S. Forest Service’s Northern Research Station

You can view and print the online versions or order paper copies of the publications.
http://nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/updates/

NYS DEC

NYS Forestry Best Management Practices for Water Quality