The following sheets are information on various aspects of the life of a forest that a landowner may need to understand the management of their lands. They generally describe various stages of the growth of a forest stand from: the selection of a tree species, site preparation, planting, growing the trees over time, thinning, pest management problems that might occur, wildlife considerations, and harvesting. This information will not replace the need for advice from a professional but will aide in understanding the language in a Management Plan. If you need professional assistance please contact the Alabama Forestry Commission office located in your county. . Diseases Tree ID Annosus Root Rot Tree Identification Brownspot Needle Blight Leaf Arrangement and Composition Fusiform Rust Leaf and Twig Characteristics Hardwood Decays Leaf Forms, Tips and Bases Littleleaf Disease Leaf Margins and Types of Fruits Prescribed Burning for Disease Control Families and genera of trees Tree of Alabama Endangered Species Allegheny Chinkapin Birds American Beech Bald Eagle American Chestnut Piping Plover American Holly Red Cockaded Woodpecker American Hornbean Wood Stork American Smoke-Tree Fish American Sycamore Fish Ash Invertebrates Blue Ash   Invertebrates Carolina Ash   Mammals Green Ash Alabama Beach Mouse White Ash Gray Bat Atlantic White Cedar Indiana Bat Baldcypress Plants Black Cherry Alabama Canebrake Pitcher Plant Blackgum Alabama Leather Flower Black Walnut Alabama Streak Sorus Fern Black Willow American Chaffseed Boxelder American Hart's Tongue Fern Buckeye Eggert's Sunflower Ohio Buckeye Green Pitcher Plant Yellow Buckeye Harperella Butternut Kral's Water Plantain Carolina Silverbell Leafy- Prairie Clover Common Persimmon Little Amphianthus Cucumbertree Louisiana Quillwort Downy Serviceberry Lyrate Bladder Eastern Cottonwood Mohr Barbara's Buttons Eastern Hemlock Morefield's Leather Flower Eastern Hophombeam Price's Potato Bean Eastern Redbud Relict Trillium Eastern Red Cedar Tennessee Yelloweyed Grass Elm Reptiles American Elm Alabama Red-bellied Turtle September Elm Eastern Indigo Snake Slippery Elm Flattened Musk Turtle Winged Elm Flatwoods Salamander Flowering Dogwood Gopher Tortoise Hackberry Red Hills Salamander Hickory Sea Turtles Bittemut Hickory Mockemut Hickory Herbicides Nutmeg Hickory Herbaceous Weed Control Pignut Hickory Individual Tree Injection Sand Hickory Pine Release Using Herbicides Shagbark Hickory Site Preparation Using Herbicide Shellbark Hickory Use of Forest Chemicals Locust Black Locust Insecticides Honey Locust Dragnet - Insecticide for Bark Beetles Loblolly-Bay Onyx - Insecticide for Bark Beetles Magnolia Bigleaf Magnolia Insects Fraser Magnolia Aphids or Plant Lice Southern Magnolia Bagworm Maple Black Turpentine Beetle Red Maple Eastern Tent Caterpillar Silver Maple Elm Leaf Beetle Sugar Maple Fall Webworm Oak Forest Tent Caterpillar Black Oak Ips Bark Beetles Blackjack Oak Nantucket Pine Tip Moth Bluejack Oak Pine Sawflies Bur Oak Pine Weevils Chestnut Oak Scalping to Control White-fringed beetles Chinkapin Oak SPB Biology and Prevention Cherrybark Oak SPB Control Methods Durand Oak Live Oak Invasive Species Overcup Oak Autumn Olive Post Oak Bamboos Northern Red Oak Cogongrass Scarlet Oak Stop Congongrass Hitchhikers Shumard Oak Japanese Climbing Fern Southern Red Oak Japanese Privet Turkey Oak Kudzu Water Oak Princess-Tree White Oak Privet Willow Oak Sacred Bamboo Osage Orange Silktree Mimosa Pecan Tallowtree Tropical Soda  Apple Wisteria         Recreation and Aesthetics Pine Forest Trails Longleaf Pine Landscaping for Songbirds Loblolly Pine Pond Management Pond Pine Protecting Sensitive Areas Sand Pine Songbird Boxes Shortleaf Pine Wildflower Establishment & Maintenance Slash Pine Resources Spruce Pine Consultant Foresters Virginia Pine Cost-share Programs in Alabama Redbay Landowners Associations Red Mulberry Natural Resource Contacts River Birch Sassafrass Sourwood Tax and Investment Southern Catalpa Tax Tips 2007 Sugarberry Forest Management Investments Swamp Cottonwood Management Journal Swamp Tupelo Sweetbay Sweet Birch Sweetgum Timber Water Tupelo Harvest White Basswood Harvesting Options Witch Hazel Harvesting for Natural Pine Regeneration Yellow Poplar Selling Timber Shade Tolerance Wildlife Thinning Pine Stands Game Management Calculating Wildlife Opening Sizes Regeneration Conducting A Summer Bobwhite Call Count Direct Seeding of Pine Dove Field Management Direct Seeding of Oak Eastern Cottontail Rabbit Hardwood Regeneration Hunting Leases and Permits How to Purchase Seedlings Landscape Management for Waterfowl Planting Hardwood Seedlings Managing Beaver Ponds for Waterfowl Planting Pine Seedlings Managing Cropland for Upland Wildlife The Need for Regeneration Managing for Eastern Wild Turkey Managing for White-tailed Deer Site Preparation Permanent Wildlife Plantings Bedding Roadside Management for Wildlife Bush hogging, Light Disking, or Mowing Strip Disking Grasslands and Old Fields  Combination 3-in-1 Plow Specifications Tree Squirrel Life History and Management Mechanical Site Preparation Wood Duck Box Construction Prescribed Burning for Site Preparation Life History Roller Drum Chopping Bobcat Scalping Coyote Shearing and Raking Into Windrows Gray Fox Site Preparation & Erosion Considerations Northern Bobwhite Quail Site Preparation Methods Raccoon Site Preparation for Natural Regeneration White-tail Deer Subsoiling Wild Turkey Wildland Disking Timber Stand Improvement Hardwood Crop Tree Release Permanent Firebreaks Precommercial Thinning Prescribed Burning Prescribed Burning Longleaf Pine Pruning Pines Timber Stand Improvement Practice Options TREASURE  TREASURE Forest Program The Wildland-Urban Interface Top