Category: Forestry

I will attach pdf please make sure you follow the layout line the one they did for Mississippi State and Oklahoma State you can combine the two. include a pic or 2 with a chart maybe and try to use a farm in Columbus ga or close to it since thats where Im from. Web Soil Survey link: What is a forage plan? A forage plan, or grazing management plan, is a carefully and meticulously crafted tool that allows producers to organize their land, account for and improve forage production capabilities, determine livestock sustainability, allocate budget resources, and determine the time and effort needed to achieve production goals. Through Extension, we (in academia) encourage all forage or livestock producers to develop a forage plan in order to provide a clear direction for the health and sustainability of the operation. You can find more information about forage plans through Mississippi State University Extension Links to an external site. and through Oklahoma State University Extension Links to an external site.. Your assignment is to develop a forage plan for a forage-livestock operation. I am giving you relatively free reign with this assignment. You are free to choose any property/land you wish to develop; there are no restrictions on size or forage base. I would assume most, if not all, of you will choose your home farm. Your plan should be written like a narrative, as if you were going to hand this over as a guidebook to your farm manager. I expect (at a minimum) the following elements to be present in your plan: An inventory of the current state of forage and livestock resources A list of short- and long-term goals for the operation A satellite image of the property with pastures and land boundaries delineated A description of the soil resources on the property (use Web Soil SurveyLinks to an external site.) Management decisions to achieve your goals (planting, fertilizing, harvesting, grazing, etc.) A perpetual calendar for implementing management decisions While this is a guideline of the minimum requirements for the assignment, understand that a good forage plan will go beyond these basic details and provide more and more detailed information. I am not assigning a minimum or maximum page length to your forage plan. Use the space necessary to convey the pertinent information.

Bernhard Eduard Fernow was influential in the early days of forestry in the United States. He was the third chief of the USDA’s Division of Forestry of the United States from 1886 to 1898, preceding Gifford Pinchot. He was instrumental in the development of the United States Forest Service in 1905. He founded the Journal of Forestry and has often been called the Father of professional forestry in the United States. In addition, he was one of several people who pushed for legislation to stop the wasteful harvesting in the Lake States. Fernow gave a series of lectures to the School of Mining in Ontario, Canada, in 1903. Those lectures are attached as a .pdf in this weeks assignment. Assume you were a student at the School of Mining in 1903, and your professor tells you that you are to attend two of the lectures and summarize them for a grade. Please provide those summaries and your thoughts on the lectures for this weeks assignment.

Please briefly summarize some aspects of forest forensics and how it can be used to determine a forests history. Search the literature for an article on forest forensics for an area of interest to you. Provide the citation and an overview of the article. (20 pts.) 2. Describe The Pine Tree Riot of 1772 and the events that led to it. (10 pts.) 3. Please describe three reasons forests were cleared in New York and New England states during the period from 1800-1830. (15 pts.) 4. Settlers would often give up on clearing the forest for farms in New England and move west into the prairies of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Minnesota. What were some problems they encountered once they moved to the prairies? (10 pts.) 5. Describe the lumbering process in the early 1800s. (10 pts.) 6. What is a log brand, and why was it used? (10 pts.) 7. Please describe the location and significance of the Erie Canal to the forest industry in the early and mid-19th century. (15 pts.) 8. Any thoughts about a semester project? (10 pts.) attached are files from class that may help dont worry about citing my work