A Set of Units within www.LastingForests.com

 This is a Secondary Web site or home page of Great Oak within the Lasting Forests web site. The site and its oak-related hypertext attempts to become one of many means to improve wildland and natural resource management by providing information, concepts, ideas, software, and links for students, practicioners, and landowners for the oak trees and forests of the southeastern United States.

The site is a minor element in an important project.

Consider working from the Contents unit.

Hopefully you will want to click to one of the major Units of of www.Lasting Forests.com. (A detailed list of the contents of that site, over 900 files, is also available.)

Management suggestions have been assembled for many animal species of the southern Appalachian forests. You can link to any of them with a simple click.

1. Wildlife-Intro
2. Species Intro-1
3. Amphibian_Intro
   1. Amphibian Recommendations
   2. Salamander-Biology
   3. Salamander-Intro
   4. Salamander Survey
   5. Hellbender (revised)
4. Reptiles-Intro
   1. BoxTurtle
5. Mammals-Intro
   1. Bats (under development)
   2. Black Bears
   3. Beaver
   4. Beaver (References)
   5. Chipmunk
   6. Coyote
   7. Feral Cats
   8. Fisher
   9. Foxes
   10. Fox Squirrel
   11. Gray Squirrel
   12. Groundhog
   Birds-Intro
   1. Raptors
      • Vultures
      • Accipiters
      • Barred Owl
      • Great-Horned Owl
      • Buteos: Broadwinged Hawks
      • Falcons
   2. Bluebird
   3. Cardinal
   4. Catbird
   5. Cerulean Warbler
   6. Chat
   7. Chickadee
   8. CowbirdsCrows, Ravens, and Jays
   9. Cuckoos
   10. GnatcatcherGreat Blue Heron
   11. Warblers
   12. Wood Ducks
6. Linkable general units
   • People Management
   • Feedback
   • Feedforward
   • References
   • Nutrient Pool
   • Soil Fauna

My thanks are given in Kudos to all who have assisted in creating and storing this website. The Conservation Management Institute (CMI)of Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources temporarily houses this website.

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Lasting Forests.com is a large web site. The following are its major elements waiting for your use. Detailed Contents are also provided in an alphabetical list.

Major Elements of the Site

• The Units of the Lasting Forests Enterprise
• Dynamic Planning System Units
  • The Trevey - A Dynamic Planning System for Forests and Wildlands Emerging from Guidance
  • Guidance - A Dynamic Planning System for Military and Other Areas
• Books
  • The Dickenson Departure - Implications of Lasting Forests Within the Virginia Coalfield and Elsewhere
  • Forest Faunal Systems - A Systems Approach to Managing the Large Wild Animals of the Forests - A Text Used in the Gamma Theory Course
  • Peculiar Manor - Essays from a Virginia Log Cabin - Concepts Used within Lasting Forests
  • Wildlife Law Enforcement Systems - A Book of Readings Supporting the Courses and the Security and Safety Unit of Lasting Forests (Being copied and under development)
• Courses Available Through Lasting Forests
  • Essentials of an Alternative Wildlife Management - An Introductory Course
  • Gamma Theory - A "Distance-Learning" Graduate Course in Advanced Wildlife Management
• Extra Resources for You
  • Species-Specific Management Units - Brief comments on how to manage individual species, usually to gain increased abundance
  • Antler Points - Magazine articles and notes on the deer resource
  • Appendices - Curriculum Vitae, Useful Links and Contacts, Abbreviations, and Glossary
  • Ideas for Development
  • Disclaimer
• Great Oak
  • Contents