Forest Management

The least expensive method of replacing trees harvested from the woodlot is:

• Hand planting of seedlings

• Natural seeding

• Using airplanes to sow seeds

• Hiring commercial reforestation companies

What is selection cutting?

• Cuttings made in a stand of trees before harvest takes place

• Harvesting in a forest of trees of different ages and mixed species

• Harvesting where all the trees in a forest are to be cut at once

• Removal of forest litter to prevent forest fires

Mr. Langdon left a brush pile when harvesting his woodlot. Why is it good management practice for improving wildlife?

• Cuts down on the number of mosquities

• Gives wildlife easy access to food

• Keeps water from becoming contaminated

• Provides cover for shelter and protection

Thinning practices are used in forests when:

• All trees are mature and ready to be harvested

• Competition among trees slows the growth of all trees

• Insects and diseases have damaged many trees

• Wind or ice storms have damaged standing trees.

Prescribed burning is used in the management of forests in order to:

• Add nutrients to the soil

• Kill all unwanted trees

• Remove excess leaves, reducing the risk of wildfires

• Destroy habitat of deer that damage young trees

The system where a farmer removes all the trees from a plot of land at one cutting is:

• Clear cutting

• Prescribed burning

• Prescribed thinning

• Selection cutting

The scientific management of trees is most likely associated with:

• Silviculture

• Arboriculture

• Pomology

• Olericulture

A forest that has never been harvested by humans is called:

• Virgin

• Hardwood

• Clearcut

• Seedling

The seed tree method of harvesting involves cutting:

• All trees over a certain diameter

• All trees under a certain diameter

• About one- third of the trees in the wood lot

• All but a few of the larger trees

The basic goal of forest management is described as:

• Profit for the wood lot owner

• Use of forest resources without depletion of forest lands

• Use of wildlife resources with deletion of wildlife

• Prevention of cutting trees.