Forest landowners interested in learning more about their land's potential, its maintenance needs, and its unique characteristics, can get very good information from their state forestry agencies, and their service forester, extension forester or consulting forester. In addition to these sources, the internet also offers landowners a vast amount of information on forest land management.
http://www.conservation.state.mo.us/forest/private/index.htm
The Missouri Department of Conservation offers a wide array of assistance to
private landowners on this web site. Included are wildlife habitat development,
forest management recommendations and insect/disease identification. You can
follow the links from this site to find out how to get in touch with the MDC
in your area.
http://www.conservation.state.mo.us/forest/products/guide.htm
This Missouri Department of Conservation web site offers free information on
how to conduct a timber sale, including how to determine what you have to sell,
a sample of a sale contracts and assistance in understanding tax implications
of a timber sale.
http://www.ianr.unl.edu/pubs/forestry/
This internet site, run by the Nebraska Forestry Extension, includes a large
number of publications on forestry: planting and care of newly planted trees;
planting for specific benefits, such as windbreaks; marketing your timber; and
Christmas tree management information.
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/forst2/
This site contains publications by the Kansas State University Extension on
forestry topics. All of their publications at this site are free for
downloading. They include good papers on chemical and fiber mat weed control,
chain saw safety, wood as a source for heating, living snow fences, as well as
many others.
http://www.aces.edu/department/extcomm/publications/anr/anrfo.html
For those interested in pine management, this site, run by the Alabama
Cooperative Extension, can provide helpful information from prescribed burns
and the use of herbicides, to publications on identifying diseases in your
pine plantings.
http://www.na.fs.fed.us/pubs/misc/ir/index.htm
The Forest Landowner's Guide to Internet Resources, was developed to
help landowners better understand the extent and type of information currently
available.
The guide is organized in three sections:
Part 1: Publications, Brochures and Fact Sheets
This section of the web site organizes internet resources (publications,
documents, fact sheets) by topic. These include:
Part 2: Internet Resources by State
Here, landowners can find forestry/land management information specific to
their particular state. The guide focuses on resources of interest to
landowners in 20 states of the Northeast, although much of the information is
relevant to Missouri.
Part 3: Other Resources
This section of the Guide provides links to other resources of interest:
government agencies, newsletters, and organizations.
The guide can be viewed and consulted on line. A printable (PDF) version of the guide is also available at this site.
The web site will be updated every six months to include newly available resources and to correct any changes in web site addresses.