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The Rural Towns Program : Groundwater Modelling : The Merredin Catchment, J Matta May 2000

The Rural Towns Program : Groundwater Modelling : The Merredin Catchment, J Matta

Resource management technical reports

Agriculture Western Australia (Agwest), as part of the Rural Towns Program, was engaged to test the application of a groundwater model for potential future management options against salinity for the Merredin townsite. This report illustrates some of the options that could be implemented to achieve the objective of salinity management.


Carpenter Ants And Control In Homes, Jay B. Karren, Alan H. Roe May 2000

Carpenter Ants And Control In Homes, Jay B. Karren, Alan H. Roe

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Carpenter ants are members of the insect order Hymenoptera, which includes bees, wasps, sawflies, and other ants. Carpenter ants can be occasional pests in the home and are noted particularly for the damage they can cause when nesting in wood. In Utah they are more of a nuisance rather than a major structural pest.


G646 Sphaeropsis Tip Blight Of Pines, Loren J. Giesler Jan 2000

G646 Sphaeropsis Tip Blight Of Pines, Loren J. Giesler

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

The symptoms and identification, disease cycle and control of Sphaeropsis tip blight.

Browning and death of tips is quite common in older, well-established pine plantings. Such damage is often due to Sphaeropsis tip blight, a fungal disease caused by Sphaeropsis sapinea (syn. Diplodia pinea). Infection kills major branches and may even kill the entire tree under severe disease pressure.

Sphaeropsis sapinea can infect young trees, but the disease becomes increasingly more common and destructive as trees approach 30 years of age. Tip blight commonly occurs in landscape, windbreak and park plantings; but is seldom found in natural pine stands. …