SIVICULTURE Assignment

Question/Directive Set No. 1: What is silviculture? (10 points)

Question/Directive Set No. 2: What is the silvicultural system? How is it a plan for silvicultural activities? (5 points)

Question/Directive Set No. 4: What tree species are most often favored in selection system silviculture, and why? Why do some of these tree species pose a problem for sustainability? (10 pts)

Question/Directive Set No. 7: What is the purpose of timber harvesting in silviculture? (5 pts)

Question/Directive Set No. 8: Define crown class and discuss why its use to classify trees is important for silviculture. (10 pts)

Question/Directive Set No. 9: List and describe key characteristics of trees and tree communities that reflect prolonged effects of 100% relative stand density in even-aged stands. (10 pts)

Question/Directive Set No. 10: Describe differences/similarities between release treatments and thinning as practices of tending in silviculture. (5 pts)

Question/Directive Set No. 11: Compare and contrast four methods of thinning, with specific reference to relative changes in stand density and stand structure. (10 pts)

Question/Directive Set No. 12: When (stage of stand development) and why do we prune stands of trees (in terms of both timing – see stage of stand development – and stand value)? (10 pts)

Question/Directive Set No. 13: How does “shelterwood method” differ from “shelterwood system”? (5 pts)

Question/Directive Set No. 14: What is advance regeneration and why is it important in regenerating northern hardwood stands? (10 pts)

Question/Directive Set No. 15: Compare and contrast thinning and shelterwood, both technically and ecologically. (10 pts)