Question: Multiple Use

Answer: A policy that states that the national forests must serve a number of uses (recreation, wildlife habitat, mining, grazing, and timber)

Question: Monoculture

Answer: A large planting of just one kind of crop

Question: Prescribed Burn (AKA Controlled Burn)

Answer: The process of setting fire to an area of Forrest under carefully controlled conditions

Question: Salvage Logging

Answer: The removal of dead trees following a natural disturbance

Question: Sustainable Forestry Certification

Answer: Formal recognition by an organization that a product has been produced using methods and materials the organization considers to be sustainable. (the internal organization for standardization, sustainable forestry initiative, and the Forrest stewardship council)

Question: What is the Role of the Forest Service?

Answer: To manage U.S National Forrest

(timber, recreation, wildlife habitat, and mining)

Question: Why is the Forest Service controversial?

Answer: Taxpayers money is used to help private corporations harvest publicly held resources for profit.

Question: Where are mono cultures in U.S located?

Answer: Northwest and South

Question: Why do most ecologists and foresters consider tree plantation to be more like cropland than Forrest land?

Answer: Plantations do not produce a wide variety of trees, and therefore have lower biodiversity than forests

Question: How can plantations be managed so that they are more similar to natural forests?

Answer: In a way that maintains uneven-aged stands.