Silviculture Vocabulary

The study of forests and forest relationships.

• Forestry
• Silviculture
• Reforestation
• Deforestation

The cutting down of selected trees in a forest so the growth of other trees is not affected.

• Selective Cutting
• Controlled Burn 
• Thinning
• Clear Cutting

The removal of some trees from a row or area to allow others more room to grow.

• Selective Cutting
• Controlled Burn 
• Thinning
• Clear Cutting

Removal of all marketable trees from an area.

• Selective Cutting
• Controlled Burn 
• Thinning
• Clear Cutting

What is the top of an individual tree?

• Canopy
• Stand
• Crown
• Conifer

Forest renewal that occurs when seeds or seedlings are planted at a harvest site.

• Pruning
• Artificial Regeneration
• Natural Regeneration
• sapling

The development of a plant from a seed or spore after a period of dormancy

• seedling
• crown
• regeneration
• germiniation

Removal of unwanted branches from a tree; shaping a tree by controlling the growth of the limbs and branches

• Thinning
• Pruning
• Seedling
• Clear cutting

Occurs on a forest site when young trees begin to grow there without having to be planted

• Artificial Regeneration
• Germination
• Natural Regeneration
• Pruning

Planting tree seeds to generate new forest growth

• Direct Seeding
• Indirect seeding
• Selective Seeding
• Artificial Regeneration