Environmental Science Forest Management Test

________________: involves managing forest crops, stands, goals/objectives of landowner, best management practices (BMP), wildlife habitats.

• Forest Management

• Harvest cutting

• Intermediate cutting

• Improvement cutting

_____________________: practice of establishing, treating and reproducing forest stands possessing desired characteristics.

• Stands

• Salvage cuts

• Silviculture

• Pulpwood cuts

____________________: groups of trees which exhibit uniformity in size, age, structure and arrangement.

• Pre-commercial thinning

• Prescribed burns

• Silviculture

• Stands

_____________________: allow for the intentional setting of fires with controlled boundaries under certain conditions; also known as controlled burns.

• Harvest cutting

• Prescribed burns

• Stands

• Silviculture

____________________: collecting of trees after they have matured.

• Intermediate cutting

• Harvest cutting

• Pulpwood cuts

• Salvage cuts

____________________: harvesting of trees before they have reached maturity.

• Harvest cutting

• Intermediate cutting

• Prescribed burns

• Pulpwood cuts

______________________: thinning of a forested area by removing smaller, lesser quality trees which may hamper the growth of trees used in commercial settings.

• Intermediate cutting

• Pulpwood cuts

• Pre-commercial thinning

• Salvage cuts

_____________________: form of culling in which less valuable trees of poor quality are harvested.

• Intermediate cutting

• Improvement cutting

• Pulpwood cuts

• Salvage cuts

_____________________: generally smaller, lower quality logs which will be used to make paper.

• Improvement cutting

• Salvage cuts

• Stands

• Pulpwood cuts

______________________: trees which are eliminated from an area after a catastrophic event; the removal of any bent, broken or leaning trees caused by this event.

• Salvage cuts

• Pre-commercial thinning

• Forest Management

• Intermediate cutting