Resource Management and Forestry

Question 1

Resource Management

Answer 1

is practice of harvesting renewable resources in ways that do not deplete them

Question 2

What types of resources are vital to us?

Answer 2

Timber, soil, water, wildlife, and fish

Question 3

Traditionally companies and private land owners have sought ________

Answer 3

maximum sustainable yield, or the aim to get the most amount of resource extraction without completely depleting the resource.

Question 4

Forests cover ____ percent of the earth’s land surface

Answer 4

30

Question 5

The management of forest regions is known as ______

Answer 5

forestry

Question 6

Ecologically speaking, forests are very…

Answer 6

valuable

Question 7

What is the forest structure from top to bottom?

Answer 7

Canopy, subcanopy, understory, shrub layer, forest floor and soil layer

Question 8

Primary Forest (also called Virgin Forest)

Answer 8

An area that is natural and uncut by people

Question 9

Second Growth Trees/Forests

Answer 9

Areas that have had trees that have sprouted after a primary forest has been cut. These areas are only grown to partial maturity.

Question 10

Plantation forestry

Answer 10

Where companies in an attempt to alleviate natural timber harvesting will set up plantation of trees.

Question 11

Even aged

Answer 11

All trees are the same age and cut after a certain number of years

Question 12

Uneven aged

Answer 12

Select trees are harvested leaving an unequal distribution of tree ages in a plantation

Question 13

Best wood to start a firewood with?

Answer 13

Dry wood. Cold fire is slow moving and has a low temperature

oxygen and fuel make fire hotter

Question 14

New Forestry

Answer 14

Sloppy clear cutting to mimic natural disasters

ex: avalanche, etc

Question 15

Why are Parks and Reserves a uniquely American idea?

Answer 15

Monumentalism, Recreational Value, Utilitarian Benefits, Economic salvage

Question 16

What was the first public park in the world?

Answer 16

Yellowstone National Park in 1872

Question 17

What did the Antiquities Act of 1903 allow the government to do?

Answer 17

Allowed government to charge taxes to preserve parks and reserves

Question 18

Wilderness Areas

Answer 18

Areas that are completely off limits to development and industry but are open for recreation and other activities

Question 19

What are Land Trusts?

Answer 19

Privately owned wilderness areas

Question 20

What is the world’s largest Land Trust?

Answer 20

The Nature Conservancy

Question 21

What does the SLOSS dilemma talk about?

Answer 21

that it’s easier to manage reserves if broken down by a habitat corridor or green belt

Question 22

Habitat fragmentation

Answer 22

splitting an area until multiple sections allowing a green belt in between

Question 23

What does SLOSS stand for?

Answer 23

Single Large Or Several Small