Week 3 Textbook Readings: Forests

Question 1

Clear-cutting

Answer 1

A method of harvesting trees that involves removing all or almost all of the trees within an area

Question 2

Selective cutting

Answer 2

The method of harvesting trees that involves the removal of single trees or a relatively small number of trees from the larger forest

Question 3

Ecologically sustainable forestry

Answer 3

An approach to removing trees from forests in ways that do not unduly affect the viability of other noncommercial tree species

Question 4

Tree plantation

Answer 4

A large area typically planted with a single rapidly growing tree species

Question 5

Prescribed burn

Answer 5

A fire deliberately set under controlled conditions in order to reduce the accumulation of dead biomass on a forest floor