The aim of this management strategy is to achieve the largest possible amount of resource extraction without depleting the resource between harvests.
What is maximum sustainable yield?
100
In 2001, the Clinton administration created an executive order that made 1/3 of national forest land off-limits for road construction or maintenance. This order is better know by this name.
What is the roadless rule?
100
Historically, the U.S. has engaged in this forest fire management plan.
What is fire suppression?
200
This type of tree sheds its leaves seasonally.
What is deciduous?
200
This term is used to describe forests that have, at some time, been cleared or logged by humans.
What is secondary forest?
200
This type of management strategy aims to minimize the impact on the ecological processes and habitat which provide the resource.
What is ecosystem-based management?
200
These are public lands protected from development but open to nature appreciation and recreation.
What are national parks?
200
This is the ecological adaptation exhibited by some trees in which seeds are released in response to an environmental trigger, most commonly high temperatures resulting from forest fires.
What is serotiny?
300
This type of forest has never been cut by humans, also referred to as "old growth"?
What is primary forest?
300
This is when all the trees in an area are cut at once.
What is clear-cutting?
300
This management strategy involves systematically testing different management methods over time.
What is adaptive management?
300
Administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, these areas are havens for wildlife, but hunting, fishing, birding, wildlife observation, and photography are encouraged.
What are national wildlife refuges?
300
To reduce fuel load, protect property, and improve forest conditions, land management agencies sometimes burn ares of forest under controlled conditions. This is known as what technique?
What are prescribed burns?
400
Name three ecosystem services provided by forests.
What are carbon sink, soil stabilization, slows runoff, filter pollutants, purify water, moderate climate, produce oxygen, return organic materials to soil (leaves)?
400
This harvesting method involves leaving small numbers of large trees left in clear cut areas to help reseed the area or to provide shelter for seedlings.
What is seed-tree or shelterwood system?
400
Forests, companies, and products that are produced using sustainable methods can be granted this by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).
What is sustainable forest certification?
400
These protected areas are off-limits to development, but open to hiking, nature study, and low-impact recreation.
What are wilderness areas?
400
This is the removal of dead trees by timber companies following natural disturbances.
What is salvage logging?
500
How is an area defined as a forest?
What is any ecosystem with a high density of trees?
500
This harvesting method involves removing a small number of trees at any one time, leaving most trees standing.
What is a selection system?
500
In 1976, the U.S. Congress passed this piece of legislation which mandated that national forests create plans for renewable resource management.
What is the National Forest Management Act?
500
In designing reserves, debate over the number and size of reserves is summed up in the acronym "SLOSS". What does SLOSS stand for?
What is "single large or several small"?
500
Residential development in this area places homes in fire-prone situations.