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Can I Turn My Urban Trees Into Usable Lumber? Check Out This New Publication!

For many different reasons, more and more people in larger cities want to reuse urban trees scheduled for removal. People who are part of the "green movement" want to turn urban trees into something more valuable than firewood, mulch or...

Book Now Available in The Education Store: Manufacturing and Marketing Eastern Hardwood Lumber Produced by Thin Kerf Band Mills

This full-color, soft-cover book brings together a lifetime of sawmill experience and technical training to help readers solve lumber manufacturing problems and save money. It includes chapters on wood quality and characteristics, softwood lumber grading, logs for fine face veneer,...

Is It Possible to Replant Trees in an Oak Wilt Disease-Infected Area?

Question: I just finished cutting down the last of my backyard oaks due to oak wilt. I have also lost several redbuds due to verticillium wilt. I would like to replant a tree in the spot where the oaks and redbuds...

Commercial Greenhouse and Nursery Production: Alternative Options for Invasive Landscape Plants

Ornamental plants provide many environmental and ecological benefits to landscapes and urban areas. They can be aesthetically pleasing, reduce stormwater runoff, lower carbon dioxide and pollutants, alleviate the urban “heat island” effect and provide habitats to pollinators, birds and mammals....

Indiana Community Tree Steward Training

The Community & Urban Forestry's Tree Steward Program is designed for homeowners, tree board members, municipal employees, community members, volunteers, students, Master Gardeners and anyone that has an interest in learning more about trees and giving back to their community...

Weeping Willow’s Leaves Dead, Bark Loose

Question: Weeping willow, six years old and 9" diameter. Wet, clay ground and thriving. Late last summer, I noticed the leaves were dead suddenly, and the bark on the trunk was completely loose and falling off. No other trees or shrubs...

Invasive Species Walnut Twig Beetle Detected in Indiana

"The Walnut Twig Beetle (WTB), Pityophthorus juglandis, the insect involved in Thousand Cankers Disease of Black Walnut (TCD), has been detected in Indiana for the first time at a Franklin County sawmill. The beetle was detected in a trap placed...

Bobcats, Bears and Wolves, Oh My!

Ever been to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula? I had the opportunity to go (first time visiting Michigan, yay!), and to make it even more awesome, I got the chance to touch yearling black bear cubs. Through Purdue’s Student Chapter of The...

‘Twas The Day Before Arbor Day

'Twas the day before Arbor Day, when all through the park, Not a creature was stirring, no chirp, squeak or bark. The birds were perched on the utility wires with care, In hopes that many trees soon would be there....

New U2U Tool Helps Farmers Understand Impact of Global Climate Patterns

The Useful to Usable climate initiative based at Purdue University has added an online tool enabling farmers and agricultural advisers to better assess how climate patterns in other parts of the world can influence local conditions and corn yields across...

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