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100

The oldest building on campus is named after the College's founder and first dean.

What is Bray Hall?

100

The nickname of endearment for ESF Students.

What is a Stumpy?

100

In 1930, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt allocated funds towards the construction of this building -- the college's second.

What is Marshall Hall?

100
Thousands Islands may be a hyperbole: this single island houses one of ESF's biological stations.

What is the Thousand Islands Biological Station?

100

The Environmental Biology Department has been working hard to revive this tree species.

What is the American Chestnut?

200

This building has the second largest lecture hall on campus.

What is Illick Hall?

200

Name any reason why students should not walk across the Quad.

- No desired paths!

- We like to keep the Quad pristine for our different on-campus activities

- In the past, students protested the use of chemicals on the Quad by keeping off the grass

- In the past, you could've been tackled!

200

The American lawyer that served on Syracuse University's Board of Trustees and heavily supported the establishment of the NYS College of Forestry at Syracuse University and the NYS Ranger School.

Who was Louis Marshall?

200

The total acreage of all SUNY ESF properties.

How much is 25,000 acres?

200

The Global Center for Sustainable Bioproducts, which features ESF professor Chang Geun Yoo of Chem. Eng., works towards reducing our reliance on THIS material.

What is plastic?

300

Jahn Labs has none of these, just labs and offices.

What are classrooms or lecture halls?

300

The school's unofficial "colors" and an activity students can take part in during the school year.

What is tie dye?

300

A living descendant of Major Oak that lives by Bray Hall.

What is the Robin Hood Oak?

300

The town the Ranger School is located in.

Where is Wanakena?

300

The Center of Native Peoples and the Environment is focused on promoting TEK, otherwise known as this.

What is Traditional Ecological Knowledge?

400

The three buildings that are LEED Certified.

Gateway Center (Platinum), Marshall Hall (Gold, post-renovation), Centennial Hall (Gold).

400

Prior to Oakie, this totally real graduate of ESF was the school's mascot. His origins date back to 1940 but didn't obtain his degree until 1972.

Who was (is) Eustace B. Nifkin?

400

The year ESF-exclusive athletic teams were established, and also the year Oakie the Acorn was created.

When was 2010?

400

The largest of ESF's properties that contains the Adirondack Ecological Center, Adirondack Interpretive Center, and the Northern Forest Institute.

What is the Newcomb Campus or the Huntington Forest?

400

ERE's Tim Morin has discovered that the 'Seneca Drums' of Seneca Lake are likely the lake burping, therefore the result of THIS rising to the lake's surface.

What are underwater gases, potentially methane?

500

The buildings on campus that have solar panels

Baker, Gateway, Moon, and Walters

500

A 52 year old annual event hosted by the Landscape Architecture department that features students experiences abroad.

What is the Festival of Places?

500

The program which 2 of the 3 first ever female ESF graduates received a degree in, back in 1920.

What is Paper Engineering?

500

The property that is home to the Willow Project and where the ESF Mighty Oak Soccer teams and Timbersports practice.

What is the Tully Field Station?

500

EFB's Dr. Kyle Artelle and his collaborators in Canada recorded wolves doing this human-like activity.

What is using tools?

(Wolves were using ropes to pull up crab bait traps to get food for themselves).

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