state laws |
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Agricultural lands; classification and assessment
Agricultural water conservation [BMPs]
Open burning authorized by the division
Seed trees
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florida regulations
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Florida's
Best Management Practices (BMPs)
[Prescribed Burning Regulations]
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state resources |
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Florida Division of Forestry
3125 Conner Boulevard
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-1650
Phone: 850-488-4274
Fax: 850-488-0863 |
Our mission is.... to protect and manage Florida's
forest resources through a stewardship ethic to assure these
resources will be available for future
generations. |
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Forest Management
Bureau |
The Forest Management Bureau is responsible for
coordinating and/or administering programs that provide land
management activities to small, private, non-industrial
landowners in the management of their lands. |
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Cooperative
Forestry Assistance |
The Cooperative Forestry Assistance (CFA) section of the
Forest Management Bureau provides land management assistance
through our network of foresters to small, private,
non-industrial landowners in the management of their
lands. |
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Florida's
Forest Stewardship Program
Florida Division of
Forestry
3125 Conner Boulevard
Tallahassee, Florida
32399-1650
Phone: 850-488-4274
Fax: 850-488-0863 |
A voluntary program for private forest landowners which
includes the following: Opportunities to learn about forest
management and receive technical assistance; Recognition for
their efforts; An opportunity to set an example for other
landowners and the public; And, documentation of active
management which may reduce tax liability. |
university resources |
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UF School of Forest Resources
and Conservation
University of Florida
Newins-Ziegler Hall
Gainesville, FL 32611
Phone:
352-846-0850 |
The School is engaged in instruction, research and
extension service programs related to forest resources and
conservation. The programs emphasize the understanding of
forests, the interaction among their components and
environment, their relationships with other ecosystems, and
appropriate management practices and conservation
strategies. |
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UF
Cooperative Extension Service
University of Florida
1038 McCarty Hall
Gainesville, FL 32611
Phone:
352-392-1761
Fax: 352-392-3583 |
Operating as part of the University's Institute of Food and
Agricultural Sciences, Extension serves each of the state's 67
counties by providing information and conducting educational
programs. |
organizations |
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Florida Forestry
Association
PO Box 1696
Tallahassee, FL 32302-1696
Phone: 850-222-5646
Fax: 850-222-6179 |
Our mission is to promote the responsible and economic use
of Florida’s renewable forest resource by encouraging a
healthy business climate and sound political
policies. |
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Florida Native Plant Society
PO Box 690278
Vero Beach, FL 32969-0278
Phone:
561-562-1598 |
The Florida Native Plant Society was organized in 1980 to
promote the preservation, conservation, and restoration of the
native plants and native plant communities of
Florida. |
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Florida Society of American
Foresters
926 E. Park Avenue
Tallahassee, FL
32301-2647
Phone: 850-222-5350
Fax:
850-244-8511 |
Florida chapter of the SAF, whose mission is to advance the
science, education, technology, and practice of forestry; ...
and, to use the knowledge, skills, and conservation ethic of
the profession to ensure the continued health and use of
forest ecosystems and the present and future availability of
forest resources to benefit society. |
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Southern Forest Based
Economic Development Council
Florida Department of
Agriculture & Consumer Services
Earl Peterson,
Director - Division of Forestry
3125 Conner Boulevard
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-1650
Phone: 850-488-4274
Fax: 850-488-0863 |
The council acts as an information source for landowners,
forest industry, economic developers and other forest
interests. Private landowners...can be informed about
environmentally responsible management to ensure that their
forests will provide benefits for future generations... As the
market expands, we must assure that the abundant natural
resource values, such as wildlife and clean water, are
maintained. |
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Tall Timbers Research
Station
13093 Henry Beadel Drive
Tallahassee, FL
32312-0918
Phone: 850-893-4153
Fax:
850-893-7954 |
TTRS believes that sustainable, consumptive uses of
wildlife and natural resources are compatible with maintaining
natural diversity; in developing and maintaining long-term
studies/research; in promoting natural diversity; in promoting
management actions that mimic ecosystem processes in natural,
and old field
systems... |
