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What are the three different types of forests?

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Use the PPT to answer the benefits of sustainable forest management. (The yellow circles help!)

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How do we mitigate deforestation?

Continue slash-and-burn agriculture

Reuse wood

Use and buy wood harvested by ecologically sustainable forestry techniques

Reforest deforested areas

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How do we protect forests from disease?

Plant exotic trees from other parts of the world

Selected removal of affected trees

Use Integrated Pest Management

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Fire is

an unnatrual process

a natural process

always caused by humans on accident

always caused by humans on purpose

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Fires help the process of nutrient cycling by

liberating nutrients tied up in dead biomass

solidifying nutrients in solid form for millennia

burying nutrients in sediment for millions of years

creating sediment that erodes into bodies of water

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Fires create regeneration of new plants by

creating new openings for early-successional species

creating sediment that erodes into bodies of water

burying plants in sediment for millions of years

gasifying nutrients in gaseous form for millennia

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What is a prescribed burn?

a fire set intentionally for purposes of forest management

a fire set unintentionally by campers that did not put out a campfire

a fire set unintentionally by someone who litters with a cigarette

a fire set intentionally for purposes of arson

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What builds up when periodic fires are suppressed?

Dead animals

Poison ivy

Dead biomass

Live plants

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What is causing California's wildfires?

El Nino and La Nina

Placement of National Parks in fire prone areas

Climate change (heat and drought) + increased development

Poor forest management

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Describe the process of reforestation.

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Describe the process of selective cutting.

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Describe the process of ecologically sustainable forestry.

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Describe the process of reusing wood.

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Describe the process of protecting forests from diseases.

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Describe the process of a prescribed burn.

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What are the three different types of forests?

Use the PPT to answer the benefits of sustainable forest management. (The yellow circles help!)

How do we mitigate deforestation?

How do we protect forests from disease?

Fire is

Fires help the process of nutrient cycling by

Fires create regeneration of new plants by

What is a prescribed burn?

What builds up when periodic fires are suppressed?

What is causing California's wildfires?

Describe the process of reforestation.

Describe the process of selective cutting.

Describe the process of ecologically sustainable forestry.

Describe the process of reusing wood.

Describe the process of protecting forests from diseases.

Describe the process of a prescribed burn.

Describe 5 ecosystem services that sustainable forests provide.

What are the three different types of forests?

Use the PPT to answer the benefits of sustainable forest management. (The yellow circles help!)

How do we mitigate deforestation?

How do we protect forests from disease?

Fire is

Fires help the process of nutrient cycling by

Fires create regeneration of new plants by

What is a prescribed burn?

What builds up when periodic fires are suppressed?

What is causing California's wildfires?

Describe the process of reforestation.

Describe the process of selective cutting.

Describe the process of ecologically sustainable forestry.

Describe the process of reusing wood.

Describe the process of protecting forests from diseases.

Describe the process of a prescribed burn.

Describe 5 ecosystem services that sustainable forests provide.