Conservation Tools

This U.S.D.A. website has databases on plant pest regulated by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), federal noxious weeds, regulated by APHIS and the North American Non-Indigenous Arthropod Database (NANIAD).

This publication includes information regarding reducing weeds during road maintenance.

The purpose of this handbook is to provide professional land managers and planners with the latest information on the functions, design, establishment, and management of riparian forest buffers. This handbook is intended for use by: agencies and private concerns that provide technical assistance in the field, local governments who want to use the handbook as a technical basis for decision making, policy makers, public/consulting or service/private foresters and professional land managers, both industrial and public.

The American Farmland Trust compared the costs and benefits of purchasing easements on two farms, one in PA and one in CT. In CT, the benefits of a $44,000 easement include $327,496 of local goods and services are purchased annually and a total local economic impact of the farm operation of $863,315. The benefits of the $393,330 PA easement include $133,964 annualy spent at local businesses for goods and services for the farm, $804/year in recreation benefits and $2,107 /year in direct sales of farm products.

An Ecological Perspective of Plant Invaders of Forests & Woodlands. The purpose of this particular field guide is to give a scientific synthesis of what is known about the behavior of such species in managed, disturbed, and pristine forested systems in addition to key information for accurate identification.

Between 2000 and 2003, hunters, fishers and wildlife watchers traveling to U.S. Forest Service (USFS) managed lands specifically for those activities spent $1.7 billion within 50 miles of the USFS unit. As these expenditures were spent and re-spent by businesses, additional economic impacts were created for state and national economies and supported 42,342 jobs and $194.0 million in annual federal income tax receipts.