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  1. Crop Tree Management: A Tool to Help You Achieve Your Woodland Goals

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/f-50

    woodlands to provide these and many other values can be enhanced through crop tree management. Figure 1. ... Crop tree after release. Crop trees are trees that produce or have the potential to produce the desired ... produces abundant acorns would be a valuable crop tree. If increased economic value is an important ...

  2. Financial Maturity: A Guide to Increasing Financial Returns From Your Woodland

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/f-48

    a forest is harvested using either the individual tree or group selection method 1, trees to be cut or ... from other trees, health and vigor, non-timber value (e.g., wildlife, aesthetics, etc.), risk of loss ... Biological maturity, as used here, refers to the age when a tree begins to decline in vigor and health and ...

  3. Hobby Maple Syrup Production

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/f-36

    when maple producers in Ohio and other parts of northeastern North America tap maple trees to collect ... north. If you have access to a few maple trees, whether growing in your yard or in a woodland, you can ... maple. Maple Identification Before you start tapping trees, you need to be sure the tree you want to tap ...

  4. Exploring Ticks and Tick Borne Illness in Tuscarawas County

    https://tuscarawas.osu.edu/news/exploring-ticks-and-tick-borne-illness-tuscarawas-county-0

    cases of human and animal infections rise. Most notable among these illnesses is Lyme Disease, which is ... the most common vector-borne disease in the U.S., representing over 400,000 human cases each year. ... Join us to learn more about ticks, the diseases they carry, and ways you can prevent tick-borne ...

  5. Using the Tree Measuring Stick

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/F-62

    tree measuring stick is a useful tool for measuring trees and logs. Although not as precise as more ... specialized tools, it is inexpensive, easy to carry, and accurate enough for most of your tree and log ... measure with this stick? The stick is primarily used to measure the diameter of standing trees in inches, ...

  6. Measuring Standing Trees

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/F-35-02

    board-foot content (termed "volume") of certain trees in their woodland. In order to sell timber, ... for example, an estimate is needed of the quantity to be sold. If trees are to be cut to provide ... lumber, an estimate of volume is needed to determine what size and how many trees to cut. Using the ...

  7. Getting the Most Return From Your Timber Sale

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/f-37

    marketing timber. In addition, by following management guidelines in selecting those trees to be harvested ... can provide assistance in selecting trees that should be harvested and can recommend related timber ... private woodlands: Determine the reasons for selling timber. Determine the specific trees to cut. Estimate ...

  8. Controlling Non-Native Invasive Plants in Ohio Forests: Ailanthus

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/f-65

    Ailanthus (Ailanthus altissima), also known as tree-of-heaven, is a moderate sized (60 to 80 feet in ... height), deciduous tree first introduced into the United States from Asia in the late 1700s for use as an ... urban landscape tree and in strip mine reclamation in the Eastern United States. In many ways ailanthus ...

  9. CFAES News | 4.10.2024

    https://vp.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/email/cfaes-news-4102024

    year's Tree Hero Award, Chadwick Arboretum Collaborator Awards, and the Aesculus Lifetime Achievement ... Award. Be inspired by insightful remarks on the significance of trees, and don't miss the chance to ... enjoy a tree-themed art exhibition and delicious refreshments as we come together to celebrate ...

  10. Timber Theft in Ohio

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/F-97

    person's property and knowingly cuts and removes a tree or trees without the permission of the landowner it ... variable, but it can be as high as a few thousand dollars per tree or tens of thousands of dollars per acre. ... logger or operator. Without a well-written contract that makes it absolutely clear which trees are to be ...

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