Resources for Home Owners

• A Gardeners Guide to Protecting Water Quality (PDF file)
• Caring for your Lawn and the Environment
• Fertilizer Recommendations and Techniques to Maintain Landscapes and Protect Water Quality
• Managing Lawns and Gardens to Protect Water Quality (PDF version)
• Septic System Owner's Guide (PDF file)
• Urban Waterways: Choosing a Pump for Rainwater Harvesting (PDF file)
Urban Waterways: Rainwater Harvesting: Guidance for Homeowners (PDF file)
• Water Quality and Home Lawn Care (PDF file)
• Water Quality of Rooftop Runoff (PDF file)
• Why do Septic Systems Fail? (PDF file)

Publications for Lawn Care Professionals

• Pesticide Selection for Water Quality Protection
• Water Quality and Commercial Lawn Care (PDF file)
• Water Quality for Golf Course Superintendents and Professional Turf Managers (PDF file)
• Water Quality and Pesticide Selection for Professional Turfgrass Managers (PDF file)
• Water Quality and Turfgrass Area Development (PDF file)

Water Testing and Treatment Systems

• Health Effects of Drinking Water Contaminants
• Home Drinking Water Treatment Systems
• Questions to Ask When Purchasing Water Treatment Equipment
• Should You Have Your Water Tested?
• Water Quality and Laundry Problems

Wells and Water Supply Systems

• Protecting Water Supply Springs
• Your Water Supply: Well Construction and Protection

Irrigation Systems

• Calibrating Soil-Water Measuring Devices
• Controlled Drainage Management Guidelines For Improving Drainage Water Quality
• Economics of Irrigation and Subirrigation Systems
• Field Calibration Procedures For Animal Wastewater Application Equipment
• Center Pivot And Linear Move - Irrigation System
• Hard Hose And Cable Tow Traveler - Irrigation System
• Load Area Method - Spreader System
• Stationary Sprinkler - Irrigation System
• Weight-Area Method - Spreader System
• Hydraulic Ram Pumps
• Irrigation Management Strategies To Improve Water & Energy Use Efficiencies
• Irrigation Scheduling To Improve Water And Energy Use Efficiencies
• Measuring Soil Water For Irrigation Scheduling: Monitoring Methods and Devices
• Operating Controlled Drainage And Subirrigation Systems e
• Pumping Plant Performance Evaluation
• Soil, Water, and Crop Characteristics Important to Irrigation Scheduling
• Water Supplies for Subirrigation (PDF file)
• Weather Forecasts And Climate Information For Landscape Operations
• Wettable Acreage Determination for
• Hard Hose Traveler - Irrigation System
• Stationary Sprinkler - Irrigation System

Protecting Water Resources

Water Supply Protection

• Agriculture and Coastal Water Quality (PDF version)
• Best Management Practices for Agricultural Nutrients (PDF version)
• Conservation Easements (PDF version)
• Economics of BMPs to Control Nitrogen in the Neuse River Basin:
• Costs and Benefits of Best Management Practices to Control Nitrogen in the Lower Coastal Plain (PDF file)
• Costs and Benefits of Best Management Practices to Control Nitrogen in the Piedmont (PDF file)
• Costs and Benefits of Best Management Practices to Control Nitrogen in the Upper and Middle Coastal Plain (PDF file)
• Engineered Stormwater Controls
• Good Soil Management Helps Protect Groundwater (PDF version)
• Nitrogen Management and Water Quality (PDF version)
• NCSU Water Quality Group Publications List and Order Form
• Protecting Water Supply Springs
• Review of Farmers Attitudes and Experiences in the Process of Adoption of Best Management Practices (BMPs) as Currently Proposed for Critical NC Watersheds
• Section 319 Nonpoint Source National Monitoring Program: Successes and Recommendations
• Soils and Water Quality
• Stream Restoration Guidebook (PDF Version)
• Watershed Management: Planning and Managing a Successful Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Project

Other Surface and Ground Water

• Ground Water in the Coastal Plain of North Carolina
• Pollutants in Groundwater: Health Effects
• Pollutants in Groundwater: Risk Assessment (PDF version)
• Protecting Groundwater in North Carolina - A Pesticide and Soil Ranking System (PDF version)
• Pond Management Guide (PDF version)

Riparian Buffers

• Agricultural Riparian Buffers (PDF file)
• Riparian Buffers
• Riparian Buffers and Controlled Drainage to Reduce Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution (PDF file)

RiverCourse Factsheets (NC Stream Restoration Institute)

• Natural Stream Processes (PDF file)
• Application of the Rosgen Stream Classification System to North Carolina (PDF file)
• Finding Bankful Stage in North Carolina Streams (PDF file)
• Using Root Wads and Rock Vanes for Streambank Stabilization (PDF file)

Wetlands

• Protecting Your Wetlands
• Stormwater Wetland Installation
• Wetland Issues (PDF version)
• Wetlands and Water Quality

Wildlife

Management, Damage Prevention and Control

• Birds

  • Bird Dispersal Techniques (PDF file)
  • Blackbirds (PDF file)
  • American Crows (PDF file)
  • Mourning Dove (PDF file)
  • Gulls (PDF file)
  • Hawks and Owls (PDF file)
  • Pigeons (PDF file)
  • Bobwhite Quail (PDF file)
  • House Sparrows (PDF file)
  • Owls (PDF file)
  • Ruffed Grouse (PDF file)
  • Songbirds (PDF file)
  • Starlings (PDF file)
  • Swallows (PDF file)
  • Waterfowl (PDF file)
  • Wild Turkey (PDF file)
  • Wild Turkeys Management
  • Wood Duck (PDF file)
  • Woodland Wildlife Nest Boxes (PDF file)
  • Woodpeckers (PDF file)

• Carnivores

  • Black Bears (PDF file)
  • Black Bear (PDF file)
  • Bobcats (PDF file)
  • Feral House Cats (PDF file)
  • Coyotes (PDF file)
  • Feral Dogs (PDF file)
  • Foxes (PDF file)
  • Raccoons (PDF file)
  • Working with Wildlife: Raccoon (PDF file)
  • Skunks (PDF file)
  • Weasels (PDF file)
  • Wolves (PDF file)

• Damage Identification

  • Identification and Assessment of Wildlife Damage: an Overview (PDF file)
  • Obtaining Assistance to Control Wildlife Damage (PDF file)
  • Wildlife Diseases and Humans (PDF file)

• General Management

  • Agriculture and Natural Resource Protection
  • Low Cost Habitat Improvements (PDF file)
  • Managing Edges for Wildlife (PDF file)
  • Snags and Downed Logs (PDF file)
  • Wildlife on Your Farm
  • Wildlife Terms (PDF file)

• Other Mammals

  • Bats (PDF file)
  • Working with Wildlife: Bats (PDF file)
  • Deer (PDF file)
  • Deer Management
  • White-Tailed Deer (PDF file)
  • Moles (PDF file)
  • Opossums (PDF file)
  • Wild Pigs (PDF file)
  • Cottontail Rabbits (PDF file)
  • Working with Wildlife: Cottontail Rabbit (PDF file)
  • Shrews (PDF file)

• Reptiles and Amphibians

  • Alligators (PDF file)
  • Frogs and Toads (PDF file)
  • NC Snakes
  • Pools for Amphibians (PDF file)
  • Wildlife Damage Management: Snakes
  • Nonpoisonous Snakes (PDF file)
  • Rattlesnakes (PDF file)
  • Turtles (PDF file)

• Rodents

  • Beavers (PDF file)
  • Beavers -- Wildlife Damage Management
  • Chipmunks (PDF file)
  • Grey Squirrel (PDF file)
  • House Mice (PDF file)
  • Muskrats (PDF file)
  • Nutria (PDF file)
  • Cotton Rats (PDF file)
  • Norway Rats (PDF file)
  • Rodent-proof Construction and Exclusion Methods (PDF file)
  • Tree Squirrels (PDF file)
  • Voles in Horticultural Plantings
  • Voles (PDF file)
  • Woodchucks (PDF file)

Pesticides and Wildlife

• Pesticides and Wildlife - Christmas Trees
• Pesticides and Wildlife - Corn
• Pesticides and Wildlife - Cotton
• Pesticides and Wildlife - Fruit Trees
• Pesticides and Wildlife - Peanuts
• Pesticides and Wildlife - Small Grains
• Pesticides and Wildlife - Soybeans
• Pesticides and Wildlife - Tobacco

Urban Wildlife

• Building Songbird Boxes (PDF file)
• Butterflies in Your Backyard (PDF file)
• Herbaceous Plants for Wildlife (PDF file)
• Hummingbirds and Butterflies (PDF file)
• Landscaping for Wildlife with Native Plants (PDF file)
• Managing Backyards and Other Urban Habitats for Birds (PDF file)
• Managing Edges for Wildlife (PDF file)