Silviculture

What is silviculture?

• The study of life where the predominate vegetation is trees 
• The art and science of managing quality forests
• The selection of the highest quality trees to maximize profits
• The removal of all trees to maximize regeneration of shade intolerant trees

What is a silvicultural prescription?

• The recommended treatment for the forest
• A combination of practices meant to reduce the risk of non-source point pollution to stream and rivers
• A course of action to effect change in a forest stand
• Both A and C

What is high grading?

• Harvesting the most valuable trees and leaving UGS
• Selecting trees based on a diameter limit
• Cutting trees to leave the most valuable timber
•  A timber harvest that provides the most benefit to wildlife

A forest stand is

• all the trees that make up the forest regardless of age, species or aspect
• an area of forest where trees are uniform in age, structure and species

The time between stand establishment and harvest is called

• high grading
• a regeneration cut
• rotation age

AGS (acceptable growing stock) are trees that continue to increase value

• True
• False

Predominant height of a stand consists of 

• the average height of intermediate and suppressed trees
• the height of all intermediate trees
• the average height of dominant and codominant trees
• the average height of all trees in a stand

Dominant and co-dominant trees most often are low vigor trees that do not have crop potential

• True
• False

Suppressed trees are most often low vigor trees that do not have crop potential

• True
• False