Alabama Forests
This describes the direction a slope faces.
What is aspect?
Papermaking originated in this country in 105 A.D.
What is China?
The formal system using Latin names to classify plants and animals.
What is binomial nomenclature?
Early logging systems were labor intensive and had this type of production.
What is low production?
The art and science of managing forest establishment and growth.
What is silviculture?
This type of map shows detailed surface features of land.
What is a topographic map?
Softwood trees produce these types of pulp fibers that add strength.
What are long fibers?
The most common diameter measurement taken on a standing tree.
What is DBH (Diameter at Breast Height)?
These practices (BMPS) help protect water quality during harvesting.
What are Best Management Practices?
This stand structure has at least three well-defined age classes.
What is uneven-aged stand?
These are the two main components of topography that impact site quality and productivity.
What are slope and aspect?
Hardwood trees produce these types of fibers that improve paper smoothness.
What are short fibers?
DBH is measured at this height above the ground.
What is 4.5 feet?
This harvesting system is most common in the South.
What is conventional logging (ground-based logging)?
This method removes the overstory in one harvest.
What is clearcutting?
This is the crucial medium for plant growth.
What is soil?
Fuel derived from biological sources, including wood.
What is biofuel?
This tool extracts a small core sample to determine tree age.
What is an increment borer?
This organization sets safety standards for logging operations.
What is OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)?
What is prescribed burning?
This management tool reduces wildfire risk and competition.
Name one of Alabama’s five physiographic regions.
What is Coastal Plain / Piedmont / Valley & Ridge / Appalachian Plateau / Interior Low Plateau?
This type of wood product is made by peeling, slicing, or chipping wood and gluing it back together
What is engineered wood (composite wood)?
This satellite-based system records geographic coordinates.
What is GPS (Global Positioning System)?
PPE stands for this.
What is Personal Protective Equipment?
This thinning method removes trees large enough to be sold.
What is commercial thinning?