Identifying Plants
Pinus Ponderosa
Ponderosa Pine
This number is popularly known as the ’Forester’s Constant’
0.005454
(Air) Carbon dioxide, Water, soil nutrients
These are the three types of crown fire behavior
Passive, Active, Independent
These are the Three textures listed on the soil triangle
Clay, silt, sand
Quercus gambelii
Tool used to measure tree height
Clinometer
There are three types of roots trees grow (list two)
Tap roots, lateral roots, fibrous roots
The term used to describe the average time between fires in a given area
Fire return interval
This collection of trees in Utah are considered a single organism based on its clonal reproduction. Because of this, it is considered in technicality, the largest tree on earth.
Pando
(Quaking aspen colony)
Populus tremuloidies
This process is considered to be a self-thinning technique for forests, which occurs when stands are at maximum density for their tree size.
Competition-related mortality
the process by which water vapor passes from the foliage or other parts of a living plant to the atmosphere
transpiration
Term used to describe live or dead vegetation that creates a vertical pathway for fire to climb into the canopy
Ladder Fuels
Name of the tallest tree in the world (species, and given name)
Hyperion, Coastal Redwood
Berberis repens
Creeping barberry
This stand type occurs when loggers high grade trees (particularly in ponderosa pine stands) and leave the smaller trees to grow at all at the same time and height, leading for a lot of the trunks of these trees to bend in on themselves.
Dog hair thickets
All five of the tree ‘trunk’ layers
Outer bark, Phloem, Cambium, Xylem, Heartwood
The measurement of the effects of fire on the environment, typically considering both the damage to vegetation and soil.
Fire Severity
There are buildings made nearly completely of wood and wood engineered products. these are called mass timber buildings. How many of these buildings are in Arizona
Pteridium aquilinum
Bracken Fern
The 4 types of silvicultural prescriptions (name 3)
thin from above, thin from below, crown thin, geometric thin
Three types of water within woody cells
Bound water, Free water, water vapor
This tool is the combination of an axe and an adze, named after an early Forest Service ranger who famously battled the great fire of 1910
Pulaski
This oldest non clonal tree species resides in north america and can live to be over 4,500 years old!
Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva)