Chapter 10 Vocabulary

A method of harvesting trees that involves removing all or almost all of the trees within an area.

• Clear-cutting
• Selective cutting
• prescribed burn
• tree plantations

A fire deliberately set under controlled conditions in order to reduce the accumulation of dead biomass on a forest floor.

• Clear-cutting
• Selective cutting
• prescribed burn
• tree plantations

The method of harvesting trees that involves the -removal of single trees or a relatively small number of trees from among many in a forest.

• Clear-cutting
• Selective cutting
• prescribed burn
• tree plantations

An approach to removing trees from forests in ways that do not unduly affect the viability of other trees.

• Ecologically sustainable forestry
• Selective cutting
• clear-cutting
• prescribe burn

An area set aside with the intent of -preserving a large tract of intact ecosystem or a landscape.

• National wilderness areas
• National wildlife refuges
• Rangelands
• Forests

A federal public land managed for the primary purpose of protecting wildlife.

• National wilderness areas
• National wildlife refuges
• Rangelands
• Forests

A dry open grassland.

• National wilderness areas
• National wildlife refuges
• Rangelands
• Forests

A large area typically planted with a single rapidly growing tree species.

• Tree plantations
• multiple-use lands
• Rangelands
• Forests

A U.S. classification used to -designate lands that may be used for recreation, grazing, timber harvesting, and mineral extraction.

• Tree plantations
• multiple-use lands
• Rangelands
• Forests

Land dominated by trees and other woody -vegetation and sometimes used for commercial logging.

• National wilderness areas
• National wildlife refuges
• Rangelands
• Forests