Environmental Science Chapter 11 Outline: Forestry and Resource Management VOCABULARY

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1 Name: Pd: Date: Environmental Science Chapter 11 Outline: Forestry and Resource Management VOCABULARY Please refer to the pages listed to define the following words. Vocabulary Section 1 1. Resource Management (325) 2. Maximum Sustainable Yield (328) 3. Ecosystem based management (328) 4. Adaptive management (328) Vocabulary Section 2 1. Even-Aged (333) 2. Uneven-aged (333) 3. Clear cutting (334) 4. Seed-tree approach (334) 5. Shelterwood approach (334) 6. Selection system (334) 7. Deforestation (335) 8. Old-Growth Forest (335) 1/6

2 Vocabulary Section 3 1. Multiple Use (338) 2. Monoculture (340) 3. Prescribed burn (341) 4. Salvage logging (342) 5. Sustainable forestry certification (343) 2/6

3 Name: Pd: Date: Environmental Science Chapter 11 Outline: Forestry and Resource Management QUESTIONS Please answer the following questions. Complete Sentences are NOT necessary! Questions Section 1: Resource Management 1. What are the TWO categories of resources? 2. What is the goal of sustainability? 3. What two things must be balanced in renewable resource management? 4. What is the goal of maximum sustainable yield (MSY)? 5. How is population sizes kept? 6. What TWO things can MSY affect? 7. How is the TARGET POPULATION determined? EXPLAIN!!!!! 8. What is the goal of Ecosystem- Based Forest Management? 9. How is Ecosystem-Based Forest Management carried out? 10. Being that Ecosystems are COMPLEX, what is the challenge in this type of Management? 11. What is the goal of Adaptive Forest Management? 12. What is done about Management practices? 13. What are the TWO challenges of Adaptive Forest Management? 3/6

4 Questions Section 2: Forests and their Resources 1. What are the 5 ECOLOGICAL Values of Forests; d.. e.. 2. What are the 3 ECONOMICAL Values of Forests; a. 3. What are the 2 possible results of timber harvesting methods? 4. How is even-aged regrowth different from uneven-aged regrowth? 5. What does Clear-Cutting involve and what does it result in? 6. What are the 5 Abiotic factors that show change from Clear-Cutting d.. e.. 7. What is the benefit of Clear-Cutting? 8. What are the TWO costs of Clear Cutting? 9. Why is the Seed Tree Approach? 10. What is the Shelterwood Approach? 11. What is the benefit of Seed-Tree and Shelterwood Approaches? 12. What is the Cost of Seed-Tree and Shelterwood Approach? 13. What are the TWO factors that define Selection Systems? 14. What are the TWO BENEFITS of Selection Systems? 15. What are the THREE BENEFITS of Selection Systems? 16. How is deforestation DIFFERENT from Timber Harvesting? 4/6

5 17. Why does deforestation in tropical and arid (dry) regions have the MOST negative effects? 18. What does GLOBAL deforestation add to Earth s atmosphere? 19. In the United States, what did deforestation for timber and farmland do for the country? 20. What was evident by the Early 1900s in the United States? 21. What does the timber from old growth tropical rain forest represent for developing nations? 22. Has the rate of deforestation changed over time? 23. What in the world does the deforestation of tropical rain forest has a negative effect on? Questions Section 3: Forest Management 1. When was the national forest system established? 2. What were the original PURPOSES (2) of the National Forests? 3. Today, National forests are managed by US Forest Service for; d.. 4. Describe the 3 parts of the National Forest Management Act (1976) c. 5. Where does most logging in the United States take plance 6. Describe what a tree plantation is? 7. What is the benefit of using plantations for timber? 8. When it comes to Fire Suppression, some ecosystems REQUIRE fire and if fire is NOT allowed to happen, it negatively impacts the ecosystem. What THREE things accumulate to fuel the fire? 9. What is the possible consequence when suppressing small fires? 5/6

6 10. What is a Prescribed Burn? a. Why does this sometimes scare the public? 11. Describe the FOUR Parts of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act (2003) b.. c.. d What organization has the STRICTEST standards that are most widely accepted for sustainable forestry products? And what is their abbreviation? 13. If Certified wood, what is the reason that it would be supplied by timber companies? 6/6