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Estate Planning Options for Family Forests

More than 60 percent of current forestland owners are age 55 or older and about half of them have already retired. Without proper estate planning, forced liquidation of family forests or severe disruption of planned forest management activities is a distinct possibility.
http://www.na.fs.fed.us/stewardship/estate/estate.shtml

West Virginia State Agency Reports

 http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Reports/Agency_Reports/agencylist_all.cfm

PLANTS Identification
Automated Key Data Available For Use and Testing

Draft interactive keys and plant character data sets for selected groups of U.S. plants are available for use and testing on-line or by downloading the specific PLANTS Identification application.

Unlike a traditional plant identification key that provides you with only two choices at each step (a dichotomous key), these keys let you select multiple characters simultaneously (polyclave key). This makes more character data available in the key and minimizes the number of steps it takes to identify a plant.

http://npdc.usda.gov/technical/plantid_wetland_mono.html

2008 General Schedule (GS) Locality Pay Tables

Annual Rate, Hourly Rate, and locality pay tables
http://www.opm.gov/oca/08tables/indexGS.asp

Rural Development

Fiscal Year 2007 Annual Report
http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/WV/FY%202007%20Annual%20Report%20Calendar.pdf

January 2008 Newsletter
http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/WV/Almost%20Heaven%20WV%20Mountain%20State%20Rural%20Express%20January%202008.pdf

Conservation Tillage, Nutrient Management Planning, Top Farmers' Best Management Practices

Farmers are adopting best management practices in record numbers, according to a survey just released by the Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC) and The Fertilizer Institute (TFI). The survey was designed to gain a better understanding of environmental management measures on U.S. farms and barriers to adoption. Responses were received from nearly 2,000 farmers nationwide representing
2.5 million acres of farmed cropland.

http://www.conservationinformation.org/?action=about_news_topbmpjan08

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