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He was the first chief of the Forest Service
Who was Gifford Pinchot?
This allows foresters to accurately measure the diameter of a tree.
What is D-tape?
This law allows for the creation of Habitat Conservation Plans.
What is the Endangered Species Act (ESA)?
These plants have naked seeds, unprotected by an ovary or nut.
What are gymnosperms?
A silviculture treatment where some of the trees are cut and left in the forest to make room for others to grow.
What is pre-commercial thinning?
He was the US presidents when the Clean Water Act was passed.
Who is Nixon?
This handheld device can be used to measure the slope of a road or stream.
What is a clinometer?
The act regulates forest practices in Washington state.
What is the Forest Practices Act?
This part of the tree carries water and nutrients to the crown.
What is the xylem?
Species that feed on a wide variety of foods.
What is a generalist?
He was a strong advocate for National Parks.
Who was John Muir?
A wooden stick used to measure the diameter of a tree when held 25 inches from your eye.
What is a Biltmore stick?
The type of management strategy where management policies are updated over time as experiments show the outcomes of various treatments.
What is Adaptive management?
The area beneath the bed of a stream or river saturated with water.
What is the hyporheic zone?
The process of change from one plant community to another over time.
What is succession?
He was responsible for introducing the concept of communal forests in the U.S.
Who was Bernhard Fernow?
A device used to determine what direction you are traveling.
What is a compass?
This law was passed in 1964 to protect roadless areas in the United States.
What is the Wilderness Act?
This type of forest company often manages large tracts of land for investors.
They own the majority of forest land in the United States.
Who are small private landowners?
She wrote Silent Spring helping to jump start the environmental movement.
Who was Rachel Carson?
A handheld device that can be used by foresters to determine the diameter of a tree at a height of 17 feet.
What is a relaskop?
This law established the need for Environmental Assessments and Environmental Impact statements.
What is NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act)?
This type of remote sensing data is collected from laser pulses.
What is LiDAR (LIght Detecting And Ranging)?
Every person in the US utilizes this many mature trees in one year.
What is one (1)?