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4. SILVICULTURE

Essential Question: How do you manage a forest?
Focus: Students will understand how management techniques impact a forest for a benefit of human uses.
40-Year Learning:  Forests and their purposes, along with their proper management impact the quality of life for humans.
WI AgEd Standards:

• ​TBA

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4A: Students will be able to define silviculture and describe silviculture management practices.

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4B: Students will be able to differentiate between natural and artificial methods of regenerating forests and discuss the advantages and disadvantages.

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4C: Students will be able to explain how to produce seedlings for forest regeneration.

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4D: Students will be able to describe how to transplant tree seedlings.

4E: Students will be able to identify and describe the characteristics of the different growth stages of trees such as seedling, sapling, pole, and mature tree.

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4F: Students will be able to explain why it is necessary to control populations of rodents during the seedling and sapling stages of tree growth.

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4G: Students will be able to describe intermediate treatments that are applied to forests.

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4H: Students will be able to describe some silviculture practices that are used to improve the growth and quality of trees.

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4I: Students will be able to explain how the final use of a tree affects the harvesting method used.

VOCABULARY

silvics, stand natural regeneration, artificial regeneration, direct seeding, germination, seeding, nursery, bare-root stock, allelopathic effect, herbicide, controlled burn, prescribed burn, clear-cutting, even-aged stand, selection cutting, uneven-aged stand, sapling, pole, mature, overmature, senescent, girdling, rodenticide, cleaning operation, stand improvement, liberation, intermediate cutting, crown, thinning, crown classes, emergent, dominant, codominant, intermediate, suppressed, salvage, cutting, sanitation cutting, pruning

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