Silviculture
What is silviculture?
What is the practice of caring for, planting and harvesting trees.
What is the blade of a leaf?
What is from the tip of the leaf to the start of the stem?
What is the bark of a tree and what does it do?
The bark is the outer most layer and it helps protect the tree from weather, animals, etc.
Describe four ways we can ID trees.
Bark, Leaves, Buds, Fruit, Nuts, Silhouette
Describe the pole stage.
When trees shed their lower limbs to focus on growing up.
Describe what a tree stand is?
What is a group of trees with the same characteristics (size, shape, age)?
What is the center line of the leaf called?
What is the apex?
Describe heartwood and sapwood.
Heartwood- older, harder, hardwood, inner part of tree
Sapwood- Younger, softer, softwood, out part of tree, we find sap here
Why is tree ID important?
Know the wood, understand whats around us, knowing the uses of trees.
Describe coppicing.
The practice of cutting stumps to allow for growth.
What does thinning mean in forest management?
What is, cutting back dead, diseased or over mature trees, limbs or stands?
What are the leaf margins and give two examples of each?
What does the xylem transport?
What is water?
What words describe a leaf with a jagged margin?
Serrated or Toothed
What is prescribed burning?
Intentional, controlled burning of an area.
What is the difference between the establishment stage and the tending stage?
What is, one is planting a new stand of trees and the other is caring for the growing trees?
Describe the Apex and what it does.
The apex is the tip of the leaf and it collects water.
True or False: The phloem transports sugar.
What is True?
True or False: You can ID deciduous trees by just using their leaves in the winter.
What is false?
Clear cutting happens in which stage of forest management?
What is the harvesting stage?
What are the four stages of silviculture?
What are clear cutting, establisment, tending, and mature stand?
What is the difference between the stipule and petiole?
Stipule- Base of Stem
Petiole- Where stem meets the leaf
Explain how trees talk to one another.
Underground, fungi, mychorrizal network
What is a defining characteristic between red maples and sugar maples?
What is the red stem?
True or False: Thinning is a practice done in the mature stand stage of silviculture.
False, it is the tending stage.