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“Roots, Shoots, Fruits and Flowers” is a landscape blog that invites homeowners to submit questions about their plant and garden concerns.
Program prioritizes enhancing longleaf pine ecosystems through prescribed burning and silvicultural treatments.
To assist landowners, we conducted a study to evaluate the accuracy and efficiency of smartphone-based LiDAR measurement applications.
Forest carbon programs act as intermediaries to connect landowners with organizations seeking carbon offsets.
In west-central Louisiana, where wildfires ravaged thousands of acres of drought-stricken forests during the summer of 2023, more has been lost than just trees.
(09/08/23) Pine forests that should be vibrant and green are now a striking image of dead, brown needles and charred, black bark.
Habitat needs for a variety of wildlife are generally comprised of some source of food, water and cover.
There are two kinds of spraying jobs requiring herbicide that most landowners will encounter over time.
West Nile Virus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne disease caused by a virus in the Flaviviridae family.
Understory vegetation represents an important part of forests, playing a key role in supporting ecosystem function and services.
Andrea De Stefano recently joined the LSU AgCenter as an assistant professor at Hill Farm Research Station.
Homeowners who aspire to add trees to their landscapes would be well advised to consider other potential issues.
The application of prescribed burning is a land management tool that benefits the safety of the public, the environment and the economy of Louisiana.
Sawmills play a crucial role in shaping the economy and landscape of Louisiana.
Homeowners tend to take the health of trees for granted until the tree fails and causes damage.
In 2002, an otherwise unremarkable brown beetle was detected for the first time in North America in an insect-monitoring trap near Port Wentworth, Georgia.
Homeowners may be familiar with the nuisance species of Cuban tree frogs. Here are observations.
Tree pests begin to flourish in the winter. One of the more aggressive pests of ornamental and landscape conifers is the evergreen bagworm moth.
Herbicides are one of many tools available to wildlife habitat managers.
In spring 2021, the LSU AgCenter, with the support of the Arkansas and Louisiana forestry associations, surveyed landowners from Arkansas and Louisiana.
Wildlife experts from the Midwest and Eastern U.S. have reported an increase in sick or dying birds in recent months.
Bossier and Webster parishes were host to an unwelcome pest this spring. Pine sawflies left their mark across hundreds of acres.
Here we provide some considerations for managing dove fields in Louisiana.
The 2020 Prescribed Burn Workshop almost did not happen due to the strange times we are in.
Root-feeding beetles have emerged as serious problems in conifer plantations and forests in the United States and Canada in recent decades.
Extension bulletin for testing forest nutritional health
