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Environmental Studies
12th Grade
01/04/2013

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Term
Resource management
Definition
Using resources with depleting them
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Maximum sustainable
Definition
yield the amount of resource that can be harvested without reducing the amount of future harvest
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Ecosystem based management
Definition
harvesting resources in ways that minimize the impact on the ecosystems that provide them
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Adaptive management
Definition
customized approach to managing resources that has been developed through scientific testing
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Even aged
Definition
condition in timber plantations in which all the trees are the same age
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Uneven aged
Definition
condition in timber plantations in which tress are all different ages
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Clear cutting method
Definition
of harvesting trees in which all trees in area are cut at once
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Seed tree approach
Definition
method of harvesting trees in which a small number of mature and healthy seed production tress are left stranding
Term
Shelter wood approach
Definition
harvesting trees in small numbers of to provide shelter for seeding as they growth
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Selection system
Definition
in which only some of the trees in forest are cut at one time
Term
Deforestation
Definition
clearing a forest for another land use
Term
Old growth forest
Definition
forest that never been logged
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multiple
Definition
use policy that state that the national forest must serve a number of use
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monoculture
Definition
large scale planting of a single crop
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prescribed burn
Definition
members of species that live in the same area
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salvage
Definition
logging removal dead trees following a natural disturbance
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sustainable
Definition
forestry certification formal recognition by an organization
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