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As a private forest landowner, you might only consider timber-related Federal income taxes when you have a timber sale. However, each forestry activity you conduct can have tax implications. Generally, all income received is taxable unless explicitly excluded by tax law, and nothing is deductible unless a provision allows it. Understanding the forest-related provisions and integrating tax planning into your forest management can help lower your tax. This publication is intended to be an informational and educational resource for you and your tax advisor. It is not intended as financial,...

Although the ant genus Temnothorax is broadly distributed, extremely diverse, and contains multitudes of undescribed species, discovering new Temnothorax species in the eastern United States is rare due to the high concentration of taxonomic effort on this region. Here, we recognize and describe a new species that has consistently been misidentified in museum collections as Temnothorax ambiguus, a common inhabitant of acorn shells and leaf litter. Unlike T. ambiguus, T. caryaluteus sp. nov. nests primarily in arboreal microhabitats, especially within dead branches on live Carya and Quercus...

Despite the water-rich nature of the southeastern United States (US); extended and intense dry periods intermittently occur across the region leading to reduced soil moisture levels and surface water supplies. These drought periods affect the landscape at different scales; with agriculture experiencing impacts earlier than other sectors. State and national entities may use field-based reports of impacts to crops and pasture - in conjunction with onsite and remote sensing data products - to monitor; respond; and provide relief to agricultural producers during drought. Therefore; it is...

Alligator Snapping Turtles, Macrochelys temminckii, are the largest freshwater turtle in North America. This species occurs in drainages of the Gulf of Mexico from the Florida panhandle to East Texas, USA (Ernst et al., 1994). Macrochelys temminckii, one of the most aquatic turtle species in the world (Pritchard, 1967), resides in slow-moving waterbodies that feature abundant woody debris, undercut banks, and high amounts of canopy cover (Harrel et al., 1996; Howey and Dinkelacker, 2009; Rosenbaum et al., 2023a; Adams et al., 2024). Individuals are rarely seen out of water, with only adult...

Context Non-native invasive plants are a growing threat to forests. Meanwhile, the amount of forest within the wildland-urban interface (WUI) is increasing, with housing-associated disturbances enabling the spread of non-native plants. Objectives We tested whether (1) WUI or non-WUI forests are more invaded, (2) WUI intermix forests (houses mingling with forest) are more invaded than interface forests (housing abutting forest), (3) invasion in WUI forests is delayed (invasion debt) following housing development, and (4) WUI forest invasion is associated with land cover context (a proxy for...

Context Characterizing landscape ecological complexity and change requires integrated description of spatial and temporal landscape organization and dynamics, as suggested by the shifting mosaic concept. Remotely sensed land surface phenology allows the detection of even small differences among landscape patches and through time, allowing for the analysis of landscapes as shifting mosaics.Objectives We sought to quantify aspects of the complex landscape behaviors that are implied by spatiotemporal variation in land surface phenology. We adapted an information-theoretic (IT) framework from...

Atlanta, Georgia's (USA) proposed South River Forest (SRF) is a 3,500-acre area straddling southeast Atlanta and parts of neighboring DeKalb County that would include non-contiguous greenspace and developed land uses. Catalyzed by the 2017 Atlanta City Designprocess, the SRF concept recognizes the ecologically rich, urban forest patches in this predominantly African American part of the metro area. SRF advocates point to the climate and environmental equity benefits of green space conservation for underserved communities and the personal benefits of having wildland-like outdoor recreation...