Forestry Envirothon

Match the tool with its proper use in forestry: 

• Merchantable Height

• Compass

• Volume

• Clinometer

• Fire

• Prism

• Aspect

• Biltmore Stick

• Basal Area

• Pulaski

A landowner asks you to find the volume of their stand of trees. What two measurements do you need to take? 

• Age and diameter

• Circumference and height

• Diameter and height

• Circumference and age

A timber harvest method that will result in an even-aged stand is a: 

• Select cut

• Shelterwood cut

• Clear cut

• Laceration cut

Identify -

• Mulberry

• Yellow Birch

• Witch-hazel

• Sycamore

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-5

Which invasive tree is easily mistaken for a sumac, ash, or black walnut?

• tree-of-heaven

• autumn olive

• common buckhorn

• princess tree

• Jacaranda

• Crape Myrtle

• American Sweet Gum

• Southern Magnolia

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What kind of tree is this?

• Eastern Redbud

• Magnolia

• Pine

• Honeylocust

Camouflage Bark!

• Red Maple

• Sycamore

• Sugar Maple

• White Oak

Count the needles per cluster.

• Red Pine

• Eastern Hemlock

• Eastern Red Cedar

• White Pine

Identify the tree in the above image.

• White Birch

• White Ash

• Black Cherry

• Jack Pine