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| 19th Century - what plains animal was nearly pushed to extinction due to wasteful hunting practices? |
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| The profession of growing tress: |
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| The Whooping Cranes' numbers in the wild are steadily... |
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| When a tree is desirable for harvesting and is known to be early successional, what may be the best way to reintroduce it? |
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| This is an example of indirect deforestation: |
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| Pollution and climate change |
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| What is shelterwood cutting? |
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| Cutting dead and less desirable trees in ordeer to later cut mature trees. |
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| There is a world wide __________ in forests due to new technologies. |
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| This is not a reason for maintaining forests noted in the book: |
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| Correct term or phrase for how a species or its population varies in number during a period of time: |
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| Historical Range in Variation |
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| What facts do we look at before clear cutting? |
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| Ecosystem, boundaries, and species richness of trees. |
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| Difference between carnivore and herbivore? |
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| One eats vegetable matter and one eats meat |
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| This is not a valid reason for clear-cutting: |
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| It can improve aesthetics |
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| What is the estimated population of buffalo in the Great Plains of the US? |
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| Efforts of forest management are most intense in _________________ |
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| Europe and some parts of US |
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| Flooding problems in India are the result of extensive deforestion in this country: |
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| This is the result of extensive clear cutting in Michigan: |
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| The International Union for the Conservation of Nature _______________ |
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| This is also known as "thinning": |
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| Which latitudinal zone has the greatest concentration of forests? |
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| The practice of marking individual trees for cutting |
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| Foresters have managed trees at a local level in: |
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| The age and growth rate of trees can be measure in the tree's _____________ |
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| The rate of deforestation in tropical rain forests appears to be _________ |
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| Seed-tree Cutting is __________ |
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| cutting all but a few mature trees with good genetic characteristics |
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| What is attacking the spotted owl, so much that it is endangered? |
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