Silviculture Program

Silviculture Field Tip Sheets

Silviculture field tip sheets are used to highlight current or newly tried field practices that are considered useful for field staff statewide. This page lists the dozen or so field tip sheets submitted by field staff since the mid-1980s.

 photo of Aspen leaves

All tips sheets are downloadable PDF's

  1. Birch quick-Tach scalpers (1.11mb)
  2. Planting site videos (765kb)
  3. Seedling storage boxes (300kb)
  4. Seedling storage boxes (287kb)
  5. Hardwood planting for CRP: recommendations and experiences of field foresters (1.14mb)
  6. Protect pine tree seedlings from deer browsing with paper caps (1.13mb)
  7. Beaver bars (309kb)
  8. Use of tape recorders for date gathering (1.05mb)
  9. Use of panama paint guns (1.83mb)
  10. White Pine: How to prune for blister rust (619kb)
  11. Minimizing gypsy moth damage (257kb)
  12. Protect oak tree seedlings from deer browsing using balloons for budcaps (2.23mb)

If you have a practice you think would be useful to others discuss it with your region silviculture program leader for development and posting as a silviculture field tip sheet.