Vocabulary
Atmospheric conditions over a short period of time
What is weather?
This is the acronym for the pollutant Chlorofluorocarbons.
What is CFCs?
The author of Braiding Sweetgrass.
In this practice, all of the trees are cleared.
What is clearcutting?
The first mode of transportation for timber.
What are rivers?
The emission of energy (usually heat)
What is radiation?
The ability of an ecosystem to bounce back after disturbance by pollution.
What is resiliance?
This type of tree is used to create products in this chapter that are referred to as "gifts".
What is the Cedar?
All the trees are cleared, but in sections and on a schedule.
What is clearcut rotation?
The demand for what type of product created a boom in the Adirondack logging industry.
What are paper products?
Gas layer that blocks solar radiation
What is the O Zone?
Aerosols are pollutants to this earth sphere.
What is the atmosphere?
Mutual benefit or giving back.
What is reciprocity?
A continuous group of trees.
What is a stand?
The amendment to the state constitution that protects Adirondack forests.
What is Forever Wild?
The output impacts the system in the future
Road salt entering the runoff is a pollutant to this earth sphere.
What is the hydrosphere?
This part of the tree holds soils together.
What are the roots?
This practice keeps trees of a variety of ages in the stand.
What is uneven-aged management?
What is lumber?
Particles in suspension
What are particulates?
This greenhouse gas is released into the atmosphere heavily from the dairy industry.
In the chapter, humans and old growth forests grew together in this way.
What is "symbiotically"?
The first tree harvested in Adirondack logging.
What is the white pine?
The first river that was used in logging in the Adirondacks.
What is the Raquette River?