Apes Forestry

Selective cutting differs from clear cutting in that selective cutting:

• Increases surface runoff and erosion

• Only removes a few trees

• Takes out all the trees

• Reduces the risk of forest fires

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Which of the following is true of forest fires?

• They improve nutrient cycling

• Crown fires can helps to prevent worse fires in the future

• They should be prevented at all costs

• Only you can prevent them

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Why can forest fires be beneficial?

• Minor disturbances increase biodiversity

• helps to prevent nutrient cycling

• allows conifers and other hard seeds to release & germinate

• Both A and C

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Which of the following is NOT a critical technique for sustainable forestry?

• Agroforestry

• Forest management

• Reforestation

• Clear-cutting

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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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Upper level of leaves and branches of trees

• snags

• canopy

• uneven age

• even age

Attempt to attain the most resource extract without depleting resources

• Snag

• National Forest Management ACT

• Species area Curve

• Maximum Sustainable Yield

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Law that mandated every national forest draw up plans for renewable resource management

• Land Trusts

• New Foresting

• Selection systems

• National Forest Management act

This method of forestry management involves the removal of certain trees with disease or trees of a desired height for use in industry.

• clearcutting

• selective cutting

• controlled burning

• reforestation

This method of forestry management involves the purposeful planting of trees in an area with an abandoned mine or cleared zone.

• clearcutting

• selective cutting

• controlled burning

• reforestation