This plant can be found in a variety of habitats but is most important in a riparian setting. It is recognized by its circular opposite leaves and white berries.
What is Snowberry?
100
These two methods of tree removal have little ecological impact, but are slow and expensive respectfully.
What is tree removal using balloons and helicopters?
100
The most threatened salmon in Oregon due to the long time it spends in fresh water before it goes to the ocean.
What is Coho Salmon?
100
Is the name of a grass that has a seed directly on the stem opposed to one that side-stems, branches, and then seeds.
What is spike vs. panicle?
100
What are the two grazers found on the inter-mountain grasslands?
ground squirrels and grasshoppers
200
An important understory tree that has scaly leaves that fan out. Wood is harvested for making pencils.
What is Incense Cedar?
200
Flat, low, sunny, plots of Douglas Fir are the best for this type of harvesting practice
What is clear cutting
200
Blood worms, blackly larva, and snails as opposed to mayfly larva, stonefly larva, and caddisfly larva.
What are bad water indicators vs. good water indicators?
200
The months from when the inter-mountain grasslands receive 80% of their rainfall.
What is November to March?
200
Name 2 beetles that decrease the quality of timber sales?
Metalic boring beetles, Longhorn wood beetles, and bark beetles.
300
A riparian plant that has Nitrogen fixing nodules
What is White Alder?
300
This harvesting technique is used to encourage the growth of other trees.
What is commercial thinning?
300
These are three things buffers do to help increase stream health.
What is lowering temperature, removing sediments, and providing nutrients.
300
Are places where humans are considered visitors and only allow traditional uses.
What is wilderness. (Wilderness act created 50ya)
300
Name the 5 characteristics a forest needs to have in order to be deemed Old Growth.
1.200+ years
2.Multi-aged forest
3.Multi-layered canopy
4.Defect
5.Snags
400
This plant has fire-germinating seeds and has small leaves to manage the heat commonly found in a chaparral.
What is White Leaf Manzanita?
400
These two methods of tree removal are used for steep terrain. One creates a fan of grooves and the other does not drag trees.
What High Lead and Skyline.
400
An amphibian found in riparian areas.
What is a rough skin newt?
400
Idaho fescue and cheat grass opposed to hedgehog dogtail and blue bunch wheat grass.
panicle vs. spike weeds.
400
Name and give an example of 4 ways a tree can be fire resistant.
Resisters-Ponderosa Pine
Sprouters-Madrone
Seeders-Whiteleaf Manzanita
Avoiders- annual plants
500
This tree has white awns that uncurl when exposed to water.
What is Birchleaf Mahogany?
500
16, 80 and 45, are numbers that have what value in the lumber industry
What is the best diameter to harvest Douglas Fir, the time it takes for it to grow to 16in. in diameter, and the average cycle private land owners give their trees to grow.
500
This is the names of 4 anadromous stream dwellers, and where you can find them in a fresh water ecosystem.
Pacific Lamprey- filter feeding in gravel
Coho Salmon- small tributaries
Chinook Salmon- mainstream
Steelhead Salmon- higher up and even ephemeral streams.
500
Are the names of 2 decreases, 2 increasers, and 2 invaders.
What are California oat grass, Idaho fescue, blue bunch wheat grass
Sanderberg's blue grass, bottlebrush squirreltail
medusahead, hedgehog dogtail, cheat grass, bulbous blue grass
500
How were the table rocks created? And what is the name of its formation process
volcanic eruption filled rogue river, solidified into dense rock, surrounding rock eroded. Inverted topography.