ND Trees
NDFS
Forestry
PLT Activities
Project Learning Tree
100

North Dakota's state tree is the _______?

What is American Elm?

100

The NDFS program that provides statewide surveys to assess threats to our trees and forest resources.

What is Forest Health?

100

Forest products are generally thought to fall into these 3 categories

What is wood, paper, and food?

100

In this early childhood activity, children compare trees and identify distinguishing features by creating a "My Tree Journal"

What is "My Tree & Me" or Activity 8 in the Trees & Me Guide?

100

A process that increases the learner’s awareness and knowledge about the environment and related issues

What is environmental education?

200

This tree is the most common tree in North Dakota

What is green ash?

200

This bear is a part of the longest-running public service announcement campaign in United States history, advocating for fire prevention since 1944 and celebrating his 80th birthday this year.

Who is Smokey Bear? (NOT Smokey THE Bear)

200

This group is the majority owner of forestland in North Dakota

What are families/individuals?

200

In this activity meant for learners aged 12-25, students grapple with decisions about how to manage a forest sustainably while serving different needs. 

What is "If You Were the Boss" or Activity 2 in the "Green Jobs" guide?

200

This organization oversees the Project Learning Tree program at the national level.

What is the Sustainable Forestry Initiative?

300

This State Forest features North Dakota's only waterfall

What is Sheyenne River State Forest?

300

This program provides assistance to private landowners to encourage and enable active, long-term forest management to meet their individual goals and for the benefit of the forest resource.

What is Forest Stewardship?

300

This is the percentage of wildfires that are caused by people

What is 90%?

300

In this elementary activity, students trace environmental and historical changes using a cross-section of a tree and learn about tree growth by looking at annual rings.

What is "Tree Cookies" in the Explore Your Environment Guide?

300

Foresters, policy advisors, wildlife biologists, and environmental educators are considered these kind of jobs.

What is green jobs?

400

This tree dominates eastern riparian areas, and its population has steadily declined due to disruption of natural disturbance regimes

What is cottonwood?

400

Towner State Nursery produces this many conservation tree seedlings annually

What is 1 million?

400

This is a cone from a spruce tree, so it is termed this.

What is a spruce cone?
400

In this middle school activity, students learn about the three elements a fire needs to burn and find out how this “fire triangle” can be used to prevent and manage wildland fires, particularly in the wildland–urban interface 

What is "Living with Fire" in the Explore Your Environment Guide?

400

This document translates the language of forests and sustainable forest management into concepts for everyone at any age, offering 100 forest concepts for grades K-12, organized into four themes

What is the Forest Literacy Framework?

500

This 5-needled conifer is found in very isolated parts of southwestern ND, from seed carried to this site by early Native Americans.

What is limber pine?

500

This program administered by the Arbor Day Foundation recognizes communities that go above and beyond for their community forest resources.

What is Tree City USA?

500

This term refers to an organism that is non-native to an ecosystem, whose introduction causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health.

What is invasive species?

500

In this elementary activity, students discover the value of protective coloration as they pretend to be birds in search of colored bugs.

What is "Birds and Bugs" in the Explore Your Environment Guide?

500

The name of PLT's newsletter

What is The Branch?