Forestry assistance for landowners (2015)

Missouri citizens own about 85 percent of the state's 15 million forested acres. Proper care and management of the private forest resource are important to the health of Missouri's economy and environment. Once you as a forestland owner become aware of this valuable resource, you might have questions like 'How can I manage my forest for both wood and wildlife?' or 'Where can I go for help?' Throughout Missouri, the following agencies and organizations can help you find publications, technical advice, educational programs and financial assistance to help you manage your woodlands. The following descriptions will give you an idea of some of the assistance available.New 8/85; Revised 1/15/Web

Selling timber : what the landowner needs to know (2015)

Many landowners receive only a fraction of their timber's true value because they do not know what they have or how to sell it. Selling timber can be a rewarding experience if you understand the steps involved. This guide will not make you an expert, but it will explain the basic steps involved in selling timber, so you can feel more comfortable during the process and better about the results of your sale.Reviewed 3/15/2M

Wood fuel for heating (2012)

Increasing energy costs have resulted in resurgence in the use of wood as a fuel for home heating. But heating with wood is not for everyone. Here are a few questions you should ask yourself before investing in a wood-burning unit: Does it make economic sense? ; How do you properly size and install a wood-burning unit? ; Is burning wood suited to your lifestyle? ; Where will the wood come from? ; This guide provides the basic information to help you answer those questions.Revised 3/12/Web

Chipper-shredders (2014)

Disposing of yard waste can be difficult if your municipality bans leaves, grass clippings and other forms of yard waste from landfills. Leaves and other vegetation used to make up a large portion of landfill trash, so these restrictions increase the useful life of a landfill. But they make disposal of yard waste difficult, especially in areas that also ban burning. Composting is a viable alternative for leaves and grass clippings, but it does not work well for brush and small limbs. A chipper-shredder is an alternative that works for all of these yard wastes and offers beneficial side effects as well. (For information on composting, see MU Extension publication G6956, Making and Using Compost.) Chipper-shredders reduce brush and small limbs to a size that is easier to handle and that is suitable for composting or for soil covers, which reduce moisture loss and weed growth and add beauty to a landscaped lawn. Shredding leaves and grass clippings also will reduce the time it takes for composted materials to decay.New 7/93; Reviewed 9/14/300

Basic elements of a timber sale contract

About 85 percent -- 13 million acres -- of Missouri's forestland is owned by private landowners. Each year many of these individuals receive significant income from harvesting timber. However, too many Missouri landowners make the mistake of entering into an oral logging agreement on a handshake. Memory and recollection are not good tools for helping parties resolve conflicts. A written contract reviewed by an attorney is essential. A contract ensures that both the seller and the buyer have a clear understanding of the terms of the logging project, including the timber harvesting practices to be used. A reputable logger will understand the need for a contract.New 12/14/Web

Selling timber : what the landowner needs to know (2011)

Many landowners receive only a fraction of their timber's true value because they do not know what they have or how to sell it. Selling timber can be a rewarding experience if you understand the steps involved. This guide will not make you an expert, but it will explain the basic steps involved in selling timber, so you can feel more comfortable during the process and better about the results of your sale

Managing your timber sale tax (2005)

An important part of managing your timber is managing your timber sale tax. The question is not whether the sale of your standing timber is taxable, but rather will the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) view the sale as ordinary income, or will you be able to report the income as a long-term capital gain? There are several good reasons to make sure that the sale of your timber qualifies as a capital gain. First, the income from your sale will be taxed at a lower rate. Second, there is no limit on using your capital losses to offset your capital gains. However, capital losses can only be used to offset $3,000 of ordinary income per year. Lastly, if you treat growing your timber as a business, then the capital gain from selling the timber is exempt from the 15.3 percent self-employment tax.New 10/05/5M

EDOS: Edge Assisted Offloading System for Mobile Devices

Offloading resource-intensive jobs to the cloud and nearby users is a promising approach to enhance mobile devices. This paper investigates a hybrid offloading system that takes both infrastructure-based networks and Ad-hoc networks into the scope. Specifically, we propose EDOS, an edge assisted offloading system that consists of two major components, an Edge Assistant (EA) and Offload Agent (OA). EA runs on the routers/towers to manage registered remote cloud servers and local service providers and OA operates on the users’ devices to discover the services in proximity. We present the system with a suite of protocols to collect the potential service providers and algorithms to allocate tasks according to user-specified constraints. To evaluate EDOS, we prototype it on commercial mobile devices and evaluate it with both experiments on a small-scale testbed and simulations. The results show that EDOS is effective and efficient for offloading jobs

Assessing wildlife habitats and natural resources in neighborhoods and urban environments (2013)

"Natural resources."New 9/13/Web