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  • Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications by Thomas W. Judson

    Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications

    Thomas W. Judson

    Tom Judson's Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications is an open source textbook designed to teach the principles and theory of abstract algebra to college juniors and seniors in a rigorous manner. Its strengths include a wide range of exercises, both computational and theoretical, plus many nontrivial applications. Rob Beezer has contributed complementary material using the open source system, Sage.

    An HTML version on the PreText platform is available here.

    The first half of the book presents group theory, through the Sylow theorems, with enough material for a semester-long course. The second-half is suitable for a second semester and presents rings, integral domains, Boolean algebras, vector spaces, and fields, concluding with Galois Theory.

  • Basic Concepts in Forest Valuation and Investment Analysis by Steven H. Bullard and Thomas J. Straka

    Basic Concepts in Forest Valuation and Investment Analysis

    Steven H. Bullard and Thomas J. Straka

    This book was originally intended to supplement lectures in forestry economics at the undergraduate level. It’s currently used for that purpose in ‘Forest Resource Economics’ courses at several universities. The book is also intended, however, to serve as a basic reference for foresters with experience in valuation and investment analysis concepts and methods. It has proven to be a valuable resource in forest valuation and investment analysis workshops for practicing foresters, landowners, and others interested in forestry investments.

    Ideal for use in undergraduate and graduate forestry education programs, as well as in forest valuation workshops.

  • Forest Resources Institute by Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture

    Forest Resources Institute

    Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture

  • Growing Season Definition and Use in Wetland Delineation by Karen Malone and Hans Williams

    Growing Season Definition and Use in Wetland Delineation

    Karen Malone and Hans Williams

    The definition of growing season in the 1987 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wetland Delineation Manual is derived from the soil biological-zero temperature concept. Lacking direct information on soil temperatures, minimum air temperature thresholds are used as indicators of the beginning and ending dates for the growing season. The 1987 Manual regional supplements allow for field observations of above-ground plant growth to estimate the growing season period. Since acceptance of the 1987 Manual, the growing season concept has been controversial. Soil biological zero does not apply to large areas of the continental United States, minimum air temperature thresholds appear inconsistent with observations of above- and below-ground biological activity, and photoperiodism and thermoperiodism result in local, regional, and annual variations for determining the growing season period based on plant activity. Additionally, the belief that wetlands perform ecological functions year round supports the argument that defining the growing season is irrelevant. A literature review of the environmental factors that influence above- and below-ground biological activity is presented. Recommendations are made on the use of the growing season concept to support jurisdictional wetland delineation determinations.

  • A Regional Guidebook for Applying the Hydrogeomorphic Approach to the Functional Assessment by Hans Michael Williams, Adam J. Miller, Rachel McNamee, and Charles V. Klimas

    A Regional Guidebook for Applying the Hydrogeomorphic Approach to the Functional Assessment

    Hans Michael Williams, Adam J. Miller, Rachel McNamee, and Charles V. Klimas

    The Hydrogeomorphic (HGM) Approach is a method for developing and applying indices for the site-specific assessment of wetland functions. The HGM Approach was initially designed to be used in the context of the Clean Water Act Section 404 Regulatory Program permit review process to analyze project alternatives, minimize impacts, assess unavoidable impacts, determine mitigation requirements, and monitor the success of compensatory mitigation. However, a variety of other potential uses have been identified, including the design of wetland restoration projects, and management of wetlands.

  • Significant Accomplishments and Milestones: 2002-2005 by Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture

    Significant Accomplishments and Milestones: 2002-2005

    Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture

  • Development, Testing, and Implementation of the Temple-Inland, Inc. Sustainable Forest Management System (TINSMS), 2001 by Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture

    Development, Testing, and Implementation of the Temple-Inland, Inc. Sustainable Forest Management System (TINSMS), 2001

    Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture

  • Cutting Your Timberland Taxes, May 19-20, 2000 by Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture

    Cutting Your Timberland Taxes, May 19-20, 2000

    Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture

  • Forestland: A Good Investment April 9-10, 1999 by Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture

    Forestland: A Good Investment April 9-10, 1999

    Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture

  • Wilderness and Natural Areas in Eastern North America by David Kulhavy and Michael Legg

    Wilderness and Natural Areas in Eastern North America

    David Kulhavy and Michael Legg

  • Species Pools of Seed Plants in Eastern Asia and North America by Shiyou Li and Kent T. Adair

    Species Pools of Seed Plants in Eastern Asia and North America

    Shiyou Li and Kent T. Adair

    "In their monograph, Species Pools of seed plants in Eastern Asia and North America, Drs. Li and Adair present a comprehensive analysis of data collected during a ten-year study involving 10,000 plant species in east Asia and North America."

  • Xi Shu, A Promising Anti-tumor and Anti-viral Tree for the 21st Century by Shiyou Li and Kent T. Adair

    Xi Shu, A Promising Anti-tumor and Anti-viral Tree for the 21st Century

    Shiyou Li and Kent T. Adair

    "Drs. Shiyou Li and Kent T. Adair have prepared a monograph which reviews in a thorough manner the subsequent history of CPT and analogs from discovery to promising clinical drugs. In addition, the monograph provides a wealth of novel data concerning botanical, ecological, agronomical, and cultural information, much of it presented for the first time in this interesting monograph."

  • "What's past is prologue": our legacy - our future, 1990 National Interpreters Workshop by David Kulhavy and Michael Legg

    "What's past is prologue": our legacy - our future, 1990 National Interpreters Workshop

    David Kulhavy and Michael Legg

    "... the topics of the papers presented at the 1990 National Interpreters Workshop reflect a dynamic NAI membership. While firmly rooted to principles which have been developed in over a millennium, presenters show a healthy use of past knowledge as prologue to an active, vital present ..."

  • Potential for Biological Control of Dendroctonus and Ips Bark Beetles by David Kulhavy and Mitchel C. Miller

    Potential for Biological Control of Dendroctonus and Ips Bark Beetles

    David Kulhavy and Mitchel C. Miller

    Table of Contents

  • Wilderness and Natural Areas in the Eastern United States: A Management Challenge by David Kulhavy and Richard N. Conner

    Wilderness and Natural Areas in the Eastern United States: A Management Challenge

    David Kulhavy and Richard N. Conner

    Table of Contents

  • Southern Pine Beetle: Annotated Bibliography, 1868-1982 by David Kulhavy and Paul C. Johnson

    Southern Pine Beetle: Annotated Bibliography, 1868-1982

    David Kulhavy and Paul C. Johnson

    The FAMULUS computerized literature retrieval system was used to produce an annotated bibliography for the southern pine beetle, Dendroctonus frontalis Zimmermann. The bibliography contains 1,235 citations and is cross indexed by AUTHOR, TAXONOMY and KEYS to subject areas.

  • Understanding Color Infrared Photography by William H. Klein

    Understanding Color Infrared Photography

    William H. Klein

    Color infrared aerial photography has wide application in many aspects of forest management but Its potential may not be fully realized because many users do not understand the color process and consequently how to properly interpret it. This paper takes the reader through the entire photographic process, beginning with the principles of light and ending with the final positive transparency. The step-by-step sequence is supplemented with colored illustrations and color and color infrared paired photographs. Once the process is understood, the prospective photo interpreter will be able to Independently deduce the actual color of any image on color Infrared film.

  • Southern Pine Beetle Handbook: Woodpeckers and the Southern Pine Beetle by James Kroll, Richard N. Conner, and Robert R. Fleet

    Southern Pine Beetle Handbook: Woodpeckers and the Southern Pine Beetle

    James Kroll, Richard N. Conner, and Robert R. Fleet

    In 1974 the U.S. Department of Agriculture initiated the Combined Forest Pest Research and Development Program, an interagency effort that concentrated on the Douglas-fur tussock moth in the West, on the southern pine beetle in the South, and on the gypsy moth in the Northeast. The work reported in this publication was funded in part by the Program. This handbook is one in a series on the southern pine beetle.

  • Wood Products Industries in the Texas Economy by Ricardo Clemente

    Wood Products Industries in the Texas Economy

    Ricardo Clemente

    Forests, and the manufacturing plants which make wood products are widely dispersed over eastern Texas . Their dispersion tends to obscure their economic impact. Two federal agencies, the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Census of the Department of Commerce provide most of the available data on forest resources and the forest industry; isolation of some data is difficult, however, because some census categories combine data for non-wood manufacturing with that for wood products . This paper is an attempt to bring together the most pertinent data on the forest industries of Texas.

  • Key to the Wood-Decaying Polyporaceae of the East Texas Region by Steve Bishop and W. T. McGrath

    Key to the Wood-Decaying Polyporaceae of the East Texas Region

    Steve Bishop and W. T. McGrath

    The family includes those pore fungi whose fruiting bodies are tough, leathery or woody and whose pore layer usually cannot be separated easily from the context. The pores on the undersurface are only exterior openings of tubes bearing spores and in each species these tube mouths, or pores, are a definite shape and size. Occasionally pore walls will break up giving the appearance of teeth or gills. Fruiting bodies can be sessile, stemmed, effused-reflexed or resupinate (Fig . 2). Members of the family can be either perennial or annual, with the annual species growing during the summer and maturing that fall. All are typically wood-inhabiting, only rarely terrestrial. No other family of comparable size is more important economically than the Polyporaceae, causing 90 percent of the more important timber decays in the United States (Overholts 1967). Decay caused by the Polyporaceae can affect any part of the tree.

  • The Southern Pine Beetle, Dendroctonus Frontalis Zimm, 1961-1971 by Jack E. Coster

    The Southern Pine Beetle, Dendroctonus Frontalis Zimm, 1961-1971

    Jack E. Coster

    In the last decade, since the appearance of the comprehensive reviews of southern pine beetle (SPB), Dendroctonus frontalis Zimm. (Coleoptera :Scolytidae ) *, literature by Thatcher (1960) and Dixon and Osgood (1961), much research progress on the insect has been realized. This review condenses reports of research on the insect published since 1961.

  • Diseases of Forest Trees and Forest Products by A. F. Verrall

    Diseases of Forest Trees and Forest Products

    A. F. Verrall

 
 
 

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