Forest Inventory and Planning Tools
A forest inventory method that utilizes a basal area gauge.
What is a variable-radius plot?
What is the stage of structural development in Douglas-fir forests has the lowest biodiversity?
What is competitive exclusion (or biomass accumulation)?
The majority of the forest service budget goes to _______.
What is wildfire suppression?
What is a tradeoff?
Management approach that recognizes the diverse socio-ecological values and services that forests provide.
What is multiple-use management?
A method for assessing vegetation type, productivity, disturbance effects, and changes to land-cover characteristics through time?
What is remote sensing?
What is the stage of forest structural development that happens after competitive exclusion?
What is understory re-initation?
Forest Service policy that marked the beginning of the full-suppression paradigm that dominated the 20th century.
What is the 10 AM rule?
A decision support framework that helps land managers decide how to respond to climate change?
What is the RAD framework?
Managers practicing ecological forest management strive to create and maintain _______ forest structure and _______ landscapes.
What is diverse and heterogeneous?
Models used to predict tree growth and future timber volume.
What is growth and yield?
What is the first phase of structural development where "old-growth" conditions begin to emerge?
What is vertical diversification?
Management designed to increase the potential for healthy wildfire effects.
What is fuel reduction and fire risk mitigation?
The passive management branch of the RAD framework.
What is Accept?
Ecological forest management leverages our understanding of landscape ecology to design management practices that emulate ___________.
What are natural disturbance regimes?
Forest Service software tool for projecting tree growth, forest dynamics, and treatment effects.
What is the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS)?
In ponderosa pine forests, pioneering tree species to become very old and large without ever being outcompeted. The key feature of these forests that facilitates this sort of cyclical structural development is _______?
What is frequent, low-severity fire?
A wildfire management strategy where managers intentionally decide to not suppress a fire.
What is wildland fire use (or managed wildfire)?
Four key phases of adaptive management.
What is planning, implementing, monitoring, and assessing?
A reference point for the structure and pattern of a landscape prior to EuroAmerican colonization.
What is Historical Range of Variability?
Forest Service program for conducting systematic surveys of all forest lands in the US.
What is Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA)?
In fire-adapted forests, fire suppression leads to an increase in _______ and a shift towards _______ species.
What is an increase in density and a shift towards shade-tolerant species?
The socio-ecological feedback cycle where fire suppression leads to fuel accumulation, in turn increasing fire severity and area burned, and we must respond by devoting more resources to fire suppression.
What is the wildfire suppression paradox?
In the RAD framework, forest restoration would be considered as following the _____ strategy, while climate adaptation would be considered to follow the ______ strategy.
What is Resist, what is Direct?
One of the primary objectives of ecological forest management is to maintain high ________.
What is ecological functioning?