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

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

    Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences; Ohio State University Extension Ohio woodland owners have many ... different reasons for owning and managing their woodlands. Some desire woodlands that provide habitat for ... a variety of wildlife. Others want a woodland that supports particular types of recreation such as hiking, ...

  2. Getting the Most Return From Your Timber Sale

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

    Extension Approximately 84 percent of Ohio's forest land is owned by private nonindustrial woodland ... owners. Each year many of these individuals receive significant income from their woodlands by properly ... for other uses. However, some woodland owners sell their timber for only a fraction of its value ...

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

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

    objectives. Figure 1. Woodland owner evaluating financial maturity of white oak. Biological Maturity ... more favorable sites. Landowners desiring large, stately trees, or who want their woodland to ... contrast, forest owners wishing to maximize the financial returns they receive from their woodland will be ...

  4. Timber Theft in Ohio

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

    Ohio's woodland owners. Additionally, it is an unfortunate "black eye" for the responsible and ... legal requirement to verify ownership when logs change hands. Many woodlands in rural Ohio are owned by ... boundaries should be clearly and accurately delineated on a map and in the woodland with paint. In hardwood ...

  5. Using the Tree Measuring Stick

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

    industry, and can help woodland owners better understand and manage their forest resource.What can you ... a useful tool, it will not eliminate the woodland owner's need for the assistance of a professional ... forester. A woodland owner should utilize a professional forester to develop a management plan and to assist ...

  6. Measuring Standing Trees

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

    Environmental Sciences; Ohio State University Extension Woodland owners often need to measure the merchantable ... board-foot content (termed "volume") of certain trees in their woodland. In order to sell timber, ... methods described in this article, a woodland owner can estimate the board-foot volume in one or several ...

  7. Controlling Non-Native Invasive Plants in Ohio's Forests: Autumn Olive and Russian Olive

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/F-69-11

    native plants. Autumn and Russian olive are commonly found invading woodland edges, the interior of open ... woodlands, early successional woodlands, and abandoned agricultural fields. They do not grow well in dense ... in Your Woodland, F-45 Supplement-06. Environmental note: Many of the following herbicides are ...

  8. Timber Sale Contracts

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/F-38-02

    Approximately 84 percent of Ohio's forest land is owned by private, nonindustrial woodland owners. Each ... year many of these individuals receive significant income from their woodlands by properly marketing ... uses. However, some woodland owners sell their timber for only a fraction of its value because they ...

  9. Controlling Non-Native Invasive Plants in Ohio Forests: Privet (Ligustrum spp.)

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/F-103

    fields and rights-of-way. Dense thickets of privet can form and crowd out desirable native woodland ... "Controlling Undesirable Trees, Shrubs, and Vines in Your Woodland, F-45." Mechanical Control Infestations ... vines in your woodland. The Ohio State University Extension, Fact Sheet F-45-97. Huebner, C.D., C. Olson ...

  10. Controlling Non-Native Invasive Plants in Ohio Forests: Bush Honeysuckle

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/F-68

    of sites including abandoned fields, roadsides, right-of-ways, woodland edges, and the interiors of ... open woodlands. Honeysuckle out competes and shades out desirable native woodland species, and can form ... Your Woodland  Forestry Fact Sheet F-45 Supplement-06. Environmental note: Many of the following ...

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