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How Tree Smart are You?

These are some things I think you should know to be forestry and tree literate. Even if you make poorly but are truly interested in trees, this site is for you. Study the references and you will have taken a crash course in trees and forests.

There are 20 questions concerning trees and it is a compilation of things biological, historical, technical, and product related. I certainly hope you foresters are up to snuff. The rest of you enjoy....

  • Foresters should get 17-20 questions correct or go back to school.
  • Forestry and tree buffs should get 15 or more.
  • Landowners with an investment in trees should get at least 11.
  • An average high school graduate should get 8 of the answers correct.

1. What cellular portion of a tree transports water and minerals to leaves for food production?
.....A reference!

2. What is the genus for oak?
.....A reference!

3. The leading federal forestry agency in the United States is what organization?
.....A reference!

4. Trees are nature's oldest living things and can be as old as 4,000 years. What is the common name of the tree that attains this ancient age?
.....A reference!

5. What US state leads the nation in total acres of commercial forest land as indicated by the latest USFS forest survey?
.....A reference!

6. What plant tissue causes height growth in trees?
.....A reference!

7. What rare bird depends on a Jack Pine forest?
.....A reference!

8. The earth's single most important chemical process that supply trees food is called what? .....A reference!

9. What tree species was destroyed in the US when an imported Chinese blight in 1906 infected and killed all mature trees?
.....A reference!

10. What system in a tree is fundamental to structural support, water and mineral uptake, and to its health and vigor?
.....A reference!

11. A place where baby trees are propagated, dug, packaged, and delivered to planters is called what?
.....A reference!

12. What kind of forest product is OSB?
.....A reference!

13. What kind of tree is responsible for the production of syrup?
.....A reference!

14. Gaseous pollutants like carbon dioxide are absorbed by trees. At the same time trees are giving off what beneficial substance? You flunk the whole test if you miss this!
 .....A kids reference!

15. What is the green substance that colors most tree leaves?
.....A reference!

16. What is the most critical environmental element, that when absent causes most tree planting failures?
.....A reference!

17. What geographical location are natural forests of Redwoods growing? ....A reference!

18. Who wrote A Sand County Almanac?
.....A reference!

19. What is a cord of wood?
.....A reference!

20. Many measurements of trees are taken at a point called DBH. What does this term mean?
.....A reference!


Be sure to insist your forester take this test. If he does well, you will have a great counselor and someone that has a basic understanding of the tree biologic. Plus he will have some additional forestry knowledge that makes him well rounded. I think you would agree that this should be part of a basic information base your forester should know?

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