Tree Identification
This pine has long needles in bundles of three and thick, plated bark.
What is Loblolly Pine?
The standard height at which tree diameter is measured (4.5 feet from the ground).
What is Breast Height?
This tool measures tree diameter at breast height without calculations.
What is a Biltmore Stick?
A board is 2 inches thick, 6 inches wide, and 8 feet long.
What is 8 board feet?
This tree can be identified by star-shaped leaves and spiky seed balls.
What is Sweetgum?
This tree has very long needles in bundles of three and large cones.
What is Longleaf Pine?
A tree that loses its leaves seasonally.
What is Deciduous?
This tool measures tree height and slope angles.
What is a Clinometer?
A board is 1 inches thick, 10 inches wide, and 12 feet long.
What is 10 board feet?
This evergreen tree has thick, glossy leaves and large white fragrant blooms.
What is Southern Magnolia?
This hardwood has rounded leaf lobes and light gray, flaky bark.
What is White Oak?
A tree that keeps its leaves year-round.
What is Evergreen?
This tool wraps around a tree and converts circumference to diameter.
What is a Diameter Tape?
A log measuring 4 inches thick, 12 inches wide, and 20 feet long equals this many board feet.
What is 80 board feet?
This wetland tree is known for glossy leaves and swollen trunk bases in flooded areas.
What is Tupelo?
This tree has pointed leaf lobes with bristles and darker bark.
What is Red Oak?
A unit of volume equal to 1 inch thick × 12 inches wide × 12 inches long.
What is a Board Foot?
This tool helps foresters establish transect lines and orient maps.
What is a Compass?
Five boards each equal 21.33 board feet. Total board feet?
What is 106.67 board feet?
Both Loblolly Pine and Longleaf Pine share this identifying needle characteristic.
What are needles in bundles of three?
This wetland tree has feathery needles and woody “knees” around its base.
What is Bald Cypress?
This forestry tool allows a forester to quickly measure a tree’s diameter at breast height (DBH) without wrapping anything around the tree, by holding it at arm’s length and aligning it with the trunk.
What is a Biltmore Stick?
This tool becomes the official record of a timber cruise.
What is a Field Notebook?
A tree produces 12 boards. Each board measures 3 inches thick, 10 inches wide, and 14 feet long.
What is 420 board feet?
A tree growing in swampy conditions has feathery needles and produces woody “knees” around its base. Based on these features and habitat, identify the species and explain its adaptation.
What is Bald Cypress?