Callery Pear Control Best Management Practices – Controlling the Invasive Pyrus Calleryana
March 14, 2024 - Forestry topic information sheet provides best management practices for controlling the invasive Callery pear (Pyrus calleryana).
March 14, 2024 - Forestry topic information sheet provides best management practices for controlling the invasive Callery pear (Pyrus calleryana).
March 6, 2024 - Annual report on the implementation of BMP monitoring in Virginia, including the audit methods and results of audits over the course of a year.
February 15, 2024 - Forestry topic information sheet provides information about Department of Forestry’s Community Forest Revitalization Program available to help create and support forestry projects in underserved communities.
January 18, 2024 - Annual report provides an assessment of the challenges and opportunities faced in forestry, as well as agency highlights and accomplishments over the past fiscal year.
January 18, 2024 - For prescribed fires to be effective, they must positively influence oak regeneration at one or more critical life stages: pollination, flowering, seed set, germination, establishment, seedling development and release into the canopy. The authors propose a refinement in our thinking to improve the match between management tools and objectives and provide some guidelines for thinking more ecologically about when and where to apply fire on the landscape to sustain oak-dominated... Read More
January 3, 2024 - Report provides an update on current forest health issues, such as invasive species, wavyleaf grass, pine bark beetles, spongy moth, emerald ash borer, hemlock woolly adelgid, vascular streak dieback, heterobasidium, beech leaf disease and more.
December 12, 2023 - Report is published each year following camp and provides the highlights of camp, staff, programs, sponsors and announcement of dates for the following year’s camp.
October 5, 2023 - Manual provides guidance about proper tree care from planting a tree to maintenance and care through the life of the tree. Manual produced by USDA Forest Service, cover created by DOF. Limited printed copies available.
October 2, 2023 - This resource update is a brief look at some of the basic metrics that describe the status of and changes to forest resources in Virginia. This information is based on field data collected using the USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) annualized sample design, and it is updated yearly.
September 28, 2023 - Coloring book teaches Smokey’s 5 rules of fire prevention for children.