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SILVICULTURE & REFORESTATION Key

QUIZ



Name:
..................................................Date:...............................................

1. Define a silviculture system a process of tending, harvesting and replacing a stand of trees, to produce timber and other forest products

2. Match the following:

a) Selection logging (B) the removal of all trees over an area
in a single harvest
b) Clearcut Logging (C) small groups of trees are left to
provide seed for new growth
c) Seed Tree (A) a limited number of trees are
harvested
d) Shelterwood (D) some mature trees are left to
provide for a new forest



3. List at least 4 things that must be considered before any harvesting of trees can take place:

forest health, vegetation, soils, terrain, climate, tree species, economics, wildlife, biodiversity, fish, visual, water, range, recreation, other users

4. Write a short paragraph about reforestation in B.C.
(Answers may vary)









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