ND Trees
NDFS
Forestry
PLT Activities
Project Learning Tree
100
North Dakota's state tree is the _______?
What is American Elm?
100
The NDFS program that provides statewide surveys to assess threats to our trees and forest resources.
What is Forest Health?
100
Forest products are generally thought to fall into these 3 categories
What is wood, paper, and food?
100
In this early childhood activity, children compare trees and identify distinguishing features by creating a "My Tree Journal"
What is "My Tree & Me" or Activity 8 in the Trees & Me Guide?
100
A process that increases the learner’s awareness and knowledge about the environment and related issues
What is environmental education?
200
This tree is the most common tree in North Dakota
What is green ash?
200
This bear is a part of the longest-running public service announcement campaign in United States history, advocating for fire prevention since 1944 and celebrating his 80th birthday this year.
Who is Smokey Bear? (NOT Smokey THE Bear)
200
This group is the majority owner of forestland in North Dakota
What are families/individuals?
200
In this activity meant for learners aged 12-25, students grapple with decisions about how to manage a forest sustainably while serving different needs.
What is "If You Were the Boss" or Activity 2 in the "Green Jobs" guide?
200
This organization oversees the Project Learning Tree program at the national level.
What is the Sustainable Forestry Initiative?
300
This State Forest features North Dakota's only waterfall
What is Sheyenne River State Forest?
300
This program provides assistance to private landowners to encourage and enable active, long-term forest management to meet their individual goals and for the benefit of the forest resource.
What is Forest Stewardship?
300
This is the percentage of wildfires that are caused by people
What is 90%?
300
In this elementary activity, students trace environmental and historical changes using a cross-section of a tree and learn about tree growth by looking at annual rings.
What is "Tree Cookies" in the Explore Your Environment Guide?
300
Foresters, policy advisors, wildlife biologists, and environmental educators are considered these kind of jobs.
What is green jobs?
400
This tree dominates eastern riparian areas, and its population has steadily declined due to disruption of natural disturbance regimes
What is cottonwood?
400
Towner State Nursery produces this many conservation tree seedlings annually
What is 1 million?
400
This is a cone from a spruce tree, so it is termed this.
What is a spruce cone?
400
In this middle school activity, students learn about the three elements a fire needs to burn and find out how this “fire triangle” can be used to prevent and manage wildland fires, particularly in the wildland–urban interface
What is "Living with Fire" in the Explore Your Environment Guide?
400
This document translates the language of forests and sustainable forest management into concepts for everyone at any age, offering 100 forest concepts for grades K-12, organized into four themes
What is the Forest Literacy Framework?
500
This 5-needled conifer is found in very isolated parts of southwestern ND, from seed carried to this site by early Native Americans.
What is limber pine?
500
This program administered by the Arbor Day Foundation recognizes communities that go above and beyond for their community forest resources.
What is Tree City USA?
500
This term refers to an organism that is non-native to an ecosystem, whose introduction causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health.
What is invasive species?
500
In this elementary activity, students discover the value of protective coloration as they pretend to be birds in search of colored bugs.
What is "Birds and Bugs" in the Explore Your Environment Guide?
500
The name of PLT's newsletter
What is The Branch?