This website provides information for woodland owners that effected by ice damage. The website contains the following pages:
- Photo Guide for Assessing Ice Damage: The photo guide contains a number of pictures of trees of a number of species common to woodlands in Kentucky with a range of damage. Recommendations are provided for each photo regarding the loss of timber value, if timber should be salvaged and when, and a recommendation about the potential of the tree as it relates to long-term management.
- Publications: The publication page contains links to a number of publications useful to woodland owners. Four the publications were developed specifically to deal with aspects of Kentucky’s recent ice storm.
- safety in ice damaged woodlands
- how to evaluate loss of timber value
- tax information
- how to care for ice damaged trees
- salvage and improvement harvests
- Webinars:
The Webinar page provides links to webinars that were run in 2009 on the ice damage.
For more information, contact the webmaster, UK Department of Forestry Extension at forestry.extension@uky.edu |
