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FORESTRY

FORESTRYHow do you measure up?

Looking Back Who am I? Tree Terror I can do that.

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FINAL JEOPARDY

How do you measure up?:

200• Question:• The point where should you measure the

diameter of a tree to estimate it’s volume.• Answer• What is Breast Height? 4 ½ feet on the uphill

side

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How do you measure up?: 400

• Question:• This device is used to estimate diameter,

height, and tree volume.• Answer• What is a Biltmore Stick?

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How do you measure up?: 600

• Question:• The term for a stack of wood that is 4 feet high

by 8 feet long with pieces that are 4 feet long.• Answer• What is a cord?

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How do you measure up?: 800

• Question:• This is a way for to determine how much

marketable wood is contained in a forest (without cutting the forest).

• Answer• What is a timber cruise?

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How do you measure up?: 1000

• Question:• This small device can be used to determine

the stocking rate of a stand of trees, the amount of timber to remove when thinning a stand, and the volume of standing timber.

• Answer• What is a wedge prism?

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Looking Back200

• Question:• Forestry, as a discipline in the United States

began here.• Answer• What is the Biltmore Estate?

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Looking Back: 400

• Question:• I was hired by George Vanderbilt in 1895 and

founded the first American school of forestry in 1898

• Answer• Who is Carl Schenck?

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Looking Back: 600

• Question:• In 1885 this state established the first forest

agency in the United States.• Answer• What is California?

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Looking Back: 800

• Question:• When the Bureau of Forestry became the

Forest Service in 1905 I became its first Chief.• Answer• Who is Gifford Pinchot?

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Looking Back: 1000

• Question:• The first federally appropriated funds to buy

timberland were used to buy land in South Carolina and Georgia to supply this species of tree for use in sailing ships.

• Answer• What is live oak?

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Who am I: 200• Question:• I was officially designated as the State Tree of

North Carolina in 1963.• Answer• What is the pine tree?

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Who am I : 400• Question:• My needles are bright green, 8 to 15 inches

long, my cones are 6 to 10 inches long and tipped with spines (the largest of my Genus in NC), and my bark is orange brown furrowed into scaly plates.

• Answer• What is the Longleaf Pine?

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Who am I : 600• Question:• You can identify me by my star shaped

alternate leaves and my twigs that often have corky wings. But my round bur like fruit is a dead give-away.

• Answer• What is Sweetgum?

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Who am I : 800• Question:• My leaves are opposite usually with 3 to 5

lobes and serrated margins. My fruit is a reddish pair of v-shaped samaras.

• Answer• What is Red Maple?

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Who am I : 1000• Question:• My wood has been used for ship building,

flooring, furniture, barrels, and kegs. My leaves have rounded tips that lack spines and my acorns mature in 1 year.

• Answer• What is White Oak?

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Tree Terror: 200• Question:• I may only be the size of a single grain of rice,

but I am the most destructive insect of southern pine trees.

• Answer• What is the Southern Pine Beetle?

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Tree Terror: 400• Question:• The Longleaf Pine fears me but the Red

Cockaded Woodpecker seeks me out.• Answer• What is Red Heart or Red Ring Rot?

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Tree Terror: 600• Question:• I am an exotic species that was introduced to

the US by a French scientist in 1869. Once I got here I became the most destructive defoliator of broadleaf trees in the US.

• Answer• What is the Gypsy Moth?

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Tree Terror: 800• Question:• Here in the forest a low burning fire is usually

welcome unless these kinds of fuels are present.

• Answer• What are ladder-fuels?

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Tree Terror: 1000• Question:• This fungus causes galls on tree trunks and

branches. In the spring when producing spores the gall will turn a bright orange.

• Answer• What is Fusiform Rust?

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I can do that: 200

• Question:• Gifford Pinchot and Carl Schenck believed that

properly manage forests could provide a sustainable supply of products because they are this type of resource.

• Answer• What is renewable?

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I can do that: 400

• Question:• On a global scale more that one-half of the

timber cut each year is used for this.• Answer• What is a heating and cooking?

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I can do that: 600

• Question:• Trees significantly reduce the energy

consumed in buildings by these two means.• Answer• What are transpiration and blocking the sun?

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I can do that: 800

• Question:• Forests take up approximately 90% of this gas

that is removed from the atmosphere.• Answer• What is Carbon Dioxide?

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I can do that: 1000

• Question:• Trees provided this, one of NC most valuable

economic products for over 200 years.• Answer• What are naval stores?

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Final Jeopardy• Question:• The National Forest Management Act of 1976

required this kind of management in the National Forests.

• Answer• What is multiple-use management?

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