Policies & Management
Managing resources so they don't get depleted.
Resource Management
Promotes wildfires.
Salvage Logging
Name the four renewable resources.
Soil, water, animals, and timber.
Any part of an ecosystem that is living or used to be living.
Biotic
Is the management of timber, wildlife habitat, & recreation.
Multiple Use Policy
The greatest impact on diversity in tropical areas and arid regions.
Deforestation
Manages a resource that minimizes the effect on the ecosystem.
Ecosystem-Based Management
Part of the ecosystem that is not living is called ______ factor.
Abiotic
Requires renewable resource management be written for every national forest.
National Forest Management Act
The regrowth of trees that were cut at different times and provides more biodiversity.
Uneven-Aged Stands
Combines both scientists and resource managers to test under controlled conditions.
Adaptive Management
Occurs when the last species dies.
Extinction
Encourages salvage logging and prescribed burning on national forest land.
Healthy Forest Restoration Act
Regrowth of trees that were mostly cut at the same time.
Even-Aged Stands
Forest resources have ________ and _________ value.
Ecological and economic
A species that is at risk for extinction.
Endangered
Manges a resource that minimizes the effect of the ecosytem.
Ecosystem Based Management
All the trees in an area are cut down.
Clear Cutting
The maximum amount of a resource without reducing the amount for future harvests.
Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY)
The variety of life across all levels of ecological organization.
Biodiversity