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Welcome! The Topic For Today Is… FORESTRY

FORESTRY How do you measure up? Looking Back Who am I? Tree Terror I can do that. 200 200 200 400 400 400 600 600 600 800 800 800 1000 1000 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 Back

How do you measure up? : 400 • Question: • This device is used to estimate diameter, height, and tree volume. • Answer • What is a Biltmore Stick? Back

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? Back

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? Back

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? Back

Looking Back 200 • Question: • Forestry, as a discipline in the United States began here. • Answer • What is the Biltmore Estate? Back

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? Back

Looking Back : 600 • Question: • In 1885 this state established the first forest agency in the United States. • Answer • What is California? Back

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? Back

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? Back

Who am I: 200 • Question: • I was officially designated as the State Tree of North Carolina in 1963. • Answer • What is the pine tree? Back

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? Back

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? Back

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? Back

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? Back

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? Back

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? Back

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? Back

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? Back

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? Back

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? Back

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? Back

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? Back

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? Back

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? Back

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? Back

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