When preparing sites for planting, an effective land manager should consider the merits of prescribed fire, mechanical, and herbicidal treatments.  Go to the FRI Landowner briefs to find out more.

The most recent landowner brief that was published on the Forest Resource Institutes (FRI) webpage discusses the methods on estimating total tree age from the rings in a major limb. This article provides the necessary equations and information that one would use to calculate a tree’s age without inflicting further injury.

Did you miss the interview about the Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture’s Forest Resources Institute (FRI)?  If yes, then go to  www.fri.sfasu.edu.  Click on “ABOUT FRI”, scroll to the bottom of the page, play the video, and learn about FRI.   If no, then you probably are among the almost 4,000 visitors that have turned to the new homepage since September for the latest in FRI’s forestry-related research.

Please join the SFA Chapter of Ducks Unlimited for the 4th Annual Waterfowl Hunter's Party. There will be over 60 boxes of decoys, firearms, layout blinds, calls, Avery gear, yeti cooler, and more raffled away. Also there will be a free dinner and drinks. Free beer if you are 21 or older. Wear a camo shirt or pants to get a free raffle for the door prize.
Where: Banita Creek Hall
When: December 2nd, 2011. Doors open at 5:00pm
Presale Tickets: Students $20, Non-students $30
Reserved tables $300 (8 seats)
All tickets at the door are $35
For more info or tickets call Ron at 940-597-9382

Please join us to hear Dr. David Hyink, 2011 SFA Outstanding Alumnus & retired Weyerhaeuser Biometrician, discuss three important topics for forest management: 1) planting density and tree-size relations in young spacing trials, 2) plateau in Douglas-fir annual volume increment, and 3) height versus age curves for estimating site productivity.

Friday, November 11, 2011
10am to 12pm
Room 117 in Forestry Building