Posted January 2nd, 2009 by admin

Sustainable Forestry: Promising Foresty for Centuries

Author:	Jodi Riedel
Level:	High School
Content Area:	Agriculture, Environmental Science

Lesson 5: Forestry Management

Course: Environmental and Natural Resources I

Unit H: The Role of Forests in the Environment

Standards:

Competency: EN 29.00 Demonstrate proper forest management techniques.

Assessment:

Objective: EN 29.03 Describe cutting and reproducing techniques used in the forest industry to improve forest quality.

Goals for the Lesson:

Students will identify intermediate cuttings and harvest cuttings.
Students will compare and contrast thinning, prescription burning, liberation, sanitation cuttings, salvage cutting, and tree removal.
Students will describe shelterwood cutting and seed-tree cutting.
Students will identify coppice cutting.
Students will identify the advantages and disadvantages of clear cutting.
Students will understand reproduction of a forest through natural seeding, direct seeding, cuttings, and seedlings.
Students will reproduce a tree.

Classroom Time Required:

2, 90-minute class periods

Materials Need:

Setting: Classroom

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