Forest Management 1
A temporary or permanent route allowing access to a stand/stands of timber.
What is an access road?
The area where two habitat types come together.
What is the/an Edge?
A forest containing trees that are about the same age. Pine Plantations are even aged forests.
Naturally occurring (river) or man made (road) free of burnable materials to prevent the advance of a ground fire.
What is a Firebreak?
A metal, plastic or concrete pipe through water flows under roads and trails.
What is a Culvert?
A management practice of uneven-aged forest management where individual or small groups of trees are periodically selected and harvested to create openings in the stand. {EX: Western Larch on our place}
What is the Selection Method?
Effective economic practices associated with timber operations minimizing non-point source pollution. (Soil erosion and stream sedimentation)
What are Best Management Practices. (BMP's)
Type of tree named by Scottish botanist David Douglas that dominates old growth forests in the Washington Cascades.
What is the Douglas Fir?
A living or dead tree with a cavity suitable for animals to use as shelter, escape or a nursery. They may be designated and marked by signage.
What is a Den Tree?
A management practice of even aged regeneration. 4-10 trees per acre are left standing to provided seed and regenerate a harvested tract.
What is the Seed Tree Method?
Standing dead or dying trees that provide food or shelter for wildlife.
What are Snags?
A stream that flows greater than 90 percent of the time and has a well-defined channel.
What is a perennial stream?
A shallow depression constructed diagonally across a road to remove water runoff.
What is a Broad Based Dip?
Regrowing a forest on a forest tract of land using artificial (mechanical or hand planted) or natural (seeds and sprouts) regeneration methods.
What is Reforestation?
Management activity that involves an inventory to determine the value of a stand of timber prior to harvest.
What is a Timber Cruise?
Area of successional vegetation maintained to provide cover, cover and shelter.
What is/are Wildlife Opening?
The variety of life and natural processes in a given area.
What is Diversity?
Rock or other large aggregate placed on erodible sites (stream bank or bridge abutment) to protect against the erosive force or run off or wave action.
What is Rip-rap.
Logging practice of harvesting all merchantable trees from a specified area in one operation.
What is a Clear Cut?
Removing merchantable trees from a forest to obtain income from wood products.
What is a Timber Harvest?
An interest or right to limited use of land granted by the owner to another party.
What is an easement?
Any land at least 10 percent covered with trees of any size, or having had such tree cover and not currently developed or under cultivation.
What is Forest Land?
A centralized location where logs are gathered, delimbed, and cut to length if necessary and loaded on log trucks.
What is a Logging Deck?
A forest stand containing too many trees per acre; evident from slow growth rate. This reduces growth and makes a stand more susceptible to attack by disease and insects.
What is to be Overstocked or Overstocking?
A strip of land used to connect habitat types together and provide cover for wildlife to pass.
What is/are Corridors?