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    Crop Tree Management: A Tool to Help You Achieve Your Woodland Goals

    Mar 13, 2025

    Each landowner has their own goals for owning woodlands. Some desire habitat for a variety of wildlife while others desire recreation such as hiking, hunting, and bird watching. Still others want to harvest timber and non-timber products from their woods for home and farm use or to provide periodic income. Most aspire to maintain or improve the health, vigor, and attractiveness of their woodland.
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    Enhancing Food (Mast) Production for Woodland Wildlife in Ohio

    Mar 11, 2025

    The term ‘mast’ was probably first used to describe a food source for domestic livestock. Webster defines mast as “fruits, seeds, or nuts (such as berries, pine seeds, or acorns) of trees or shrubs that serve as food for wildlife or domestic animals and typically accumulate on the ground” (Merriam-Webster, n.d.). When foresters and wildlife biologists use the term, they are referring to the woody plant (trees, shrubs, or vines) fruit used by wildlife for food. All woody plants produce some type of fruit.
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    Attributes and Considerations for the Use of Cereal Rye as a Cover Crop

    Mar 11, 2025

    The use of cover crops in Ohio has been an important focus of existing and newly created conservation efforts to improve water quality in both the Lake Erie and Ohio River watersheds. One of the more popular cover crop species is cereal rye. This fact sheet reviews cereal rye characteristics, such as the growth habit of the species, differences between cereal rye and other small grains, ideal growing conditions and tolerance for poor conditions, and how to identify the species and avoid its potential negative consequences.
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