vegetation. Selective timber harvest can be used to remove hardwood trees that may be undesirable to many types of wildlife, while favoring trees that produce hard mast (oaks...

to protect sensitive environmental features and aesthetics. The most valuable tree in a forest is one that is intentionally reserved. Aesthetic buffer strips, wildlife corridors, den... trees or selective harvest for a future homesite(s) or subdivision can maintain or create significant values that landowners or their family's may need in the future. RMA initiated...

trees are some of the tools that can be incorporated on most properties to improve habitat. Hunting programs can be designed to maximize recreational uses while concurrently improving...

Publications: 1995Special Land Stewardship Issue, Seeing the Forest through the Trees, VA 1996Feature Article: Natural Resource Management on VA's Eastern Shore 1997b.Forest Inventory...