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5. TAKING MEASUREMENTS IN THE FOREST

Essential Question: How do you measure something?
Focus: Students will understand the methods to collect data on forests and how to analyze data to make informed decisions.
40-Year Learning: Measuring, data collection and the process of analyzing data is an important skill.
WI AgEd Standards:

• ​TBA

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5A: Students will be able to identify the types of infomration needed to develop a long-term forest management plan based on sustained yields.

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5B: Students will be able to describe features of the two types of land surveys used in the United States.

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5C: Students will be able to explain the relationship of baselines and principal meridians to the initial point location from which each rectangular survey begins.

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5D: Students will be able to explain how instruments such as the stereoscope and planimeter are used in preparing a forest type map.

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5E: Students will be able to use tools that estimate the diameter and height of a standing tree, explain how they are used, and cruise timber with those tools.

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5F: Students will be able to compare and contrast a 100% cruise and a partial cruise, and explain when to use each. There are some assumptions that may influence accuracy of results.

5G: Students will be able to explain the formula for measuring forest growth, and describe each of the formula's components.

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5H: Students will be able to describe the most commonly used methods for scaling logs.

VOCABULARY

metes and bounds, rectangular survey, initial point, baseline, principal meridian, standard parallel, guide meridian, township, range, section, quarter section, forty acre, hectare, are, forest type map, stereoscope, planimter, dot-grid, photogrammetry, Biltmore stick, hypsometer, chain, increment borer, basal area, timber yield, cruise, systematic sampling, line-plot cruising, forest growth, ingrowth, mortality, cut, survivor trees, survival growth, scaling, Scribner's rule, Doyle's rule, board foot (BF), International log rule, Smalian's formula, standard cord, timber cruiser

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