Silviculture
A method of cutting trees to allow sunlight to reach the forest floor.
What is a thinning
The initial stage in a plant's life cycle where a seed begins to sprout and develop into a seedling, often influenced by environmental conditions such as temperature and moisture.
What is germination?
This pathogen, causing cankers on various hardwood trees, particularly beech, is believed to have been introduced to North America from Asia.
What is beech bark disease?
The U.S. agency responsible for managing national forests.
What is the United States Forest Service (USFS)?
A large area covered chiefly with trees and undergrowth.
What is a forest?
The practice of maintaining a forest's biodiversity.
What is sustainable forestry?
A complex biochemical process by which plants, algae, and some bacteria convert light energy, usually from the sun, into chemical energy stored in glucose, utilizing chlorophyll in the chloroplasts.
What is photosynthesis?
This non-native, sap-feeding insect has devastated eastern hemlock populations by depleting the trees' stored starches.
What is Hemlock Wooly Adelgid.
This agency works to protect and conserve wildlife habitats.
What is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)?
The layer of leaves, twigs, and organic matter on the forest floor.
What is the Duff layer.
I am a consultant. I decided to harvesting all but a few well-distributed trees of the desired species to provide seed for natural regeneration. What harvest method am I?
What is Seed Tree Method
The male reproductive part of a flower, typically located within the stamen, that produces and releases pollen grains necessary for fertilization.
What is the anther?
This invasive insect from Asia poses a significant threat to North American, particularly in the eastern United States. This Pest is know to attack the sap of the tree, and in the adult stage has red wings with black spots on them.
What is Spotted lantern fly
I am noticing that my neighbor is doing a timber sale. After a heavy rain storm the water has became very cloudy and there appears to be a lot of sediment in the water. Who do I call.
Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD)
A forest area that has never been logged or disturbed by humans.
What is a virgin forest?
I am about to do a harvest on my property. I have 189 acres of forest lands with the major tree types being Oaks, Maples, and Ash. I decide to cut all of my ash and maple trees. What type of harvest am I?
What is Selection Cut
I am the part of the flower that protects the flower pedals and the buds. I usually and green in color.
What is Sepal?
This beetle, native to Asia, threatens urban and forest hardwoods, and leaves distinctive D-shaped exit holes in tree bark.
What is Emerald Ash Borer
The U.S. agency that oversees the conservation of natural resources on public lands.
What is the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
What is it called when dealing with stagnate water?
What is Lentic water?
Cutting made to remove injured or killed trees for the primary purpose of recovering usable material before it becomes worthless
Salvage Cutting
A physiological state in which a plant undergoes a period of metabolic inactivity or reduced activity, typically in response to adverse environmental conditions, such as cold or drought.
What is dormancy?
This fungal pathogen, responsible for the near-extinction of the American chestnut, is spread by both insects and wind.
What is Chestnut Blight
This agency enforces laws related to the conservation of forests and other natural resources.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
What is the difference between GPS and GIS?
Global Positioning Systems or GPS are used to find the exact location of things. Geographic Information Systems or GIS are used to record information on to maps.