Resource Management and Forestry

Question 1

Resource Management

Answer 1

A 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

Maximum Sustainable Yield

Answer 3

The aim to get the most amount of resource extraction without completely depleting the resource

Question 4

Forests cover roughly _ of the earth’s land surface.

Answer 4

30%

Question 5

The management of forest regions is known as _.

Answer 5

Forestry

Question 6

The unprecedented use of timber has ultimately led to _ in certain areas. Tends to be worse in _.

Answer 6

Deforestation; developing nations

Question 7

Primary Forest (AKA Virgin Forest)

Answer 7

An area that is natural and uncut by people`

Question 8

Second Growth Trees/Forests

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Plantation Forestry

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Even Aged

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Uneven Aged

Answer 11

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

Question 12

There are three main types of timber harvesting, all with their pros and cons:

Answer 12

Clear cutting (most ecologically damaging)
Selection cutting (ecologically OK)
Shelterwood (in between the first two)

Question 13

Forestry Management

Answer 13

New forestry (sloppy clear cutting to mimic natural disasters)
Prescribed burns
Salvage logging

Question 14

Purposes of parks and reserves

Answer 14

Monumentalism
Recreational value
Utilitarian benefits
Economic salvage

Question 15

What was the first public park in the world? When was it established?

Answer 15

Yellowstone National Park; 1872

Question 16

Wilderness Areas

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Some wilderness areas are actually privately owned. These are called _.

Answer 17

Land trusts

Question 18

_ is the world’s largest land trust.

Answer 18

The Natural Conservancy

Question 19

SLOSS dilemma and habitat fragmentation

Answer 19

Single Large or Several Small

Question 20

What are the layers of a forest?

Answer 20

Canopy
Subcanopy
Understory
Shrub layer
Forest floor
Soil layer

Question 21

When was the Antiquities Act established?

Answer 21

1903

Question 22

Habitat corridors

Answer 22

Greenbelt