Forestry Management

Clearcutting means...

• specific trees are selected to be removed

• everything is cut down without any plan

• clumps of trees here and there are removed

• After planning, most trees are removed from a single area

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What is prescribed burning?

• When a medicine I take makes my skin burn.
• Burning down everything in a place because they are going to put brand new stuff there.
• Something the firefighters do.
• Doing a controlled burn in a certain area to clean the forest floor and help the trees to growth.

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What is deforestation?

• Clearing Earth's forests on a massive scale
• Eating too much vegetables
• Going to a forest and pulling weeds
• Clearing the five trees in my backyard

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Clearcutting is

• A timber harvesting practice where all trees larger than 20 feet tall are cut harvested.

• When logging companies plant new saplings in an area bigger than 1 hectare.

• A timber harvesting practice where all of the trees in a given area are harvested at the same time.

• When forestry services clear out the underbrush in a given area.

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What are the effects of deforestation ?

• loss of habitat
• increased green house gasses 
• soil erosion and flooding
• all of the above

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The managing of resource harvesting so that resources are not depleted is called

• resource management

• monoculture

• salvage logging

• clear cutting

This results from the regrowth of trees that were mostly all cut at the same time

• even aged

• uneven aged

• monculture

• no aged

The result from the regrowth of trees that were not all cut at the same time is called

• even aged

• uneven aged

• same aged

• different aged

The harvesting of timber where small numbers of mature and healthy seed-producing trees are left standing so that they can reseed the logged area

• seed tree approach

• uneven planting

• even planting

• classic tree approach

When only some of the tree in a forest are cut at once is called

• selection system

• selection Sunday

• shelterwood selection

• even aged selection

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