NREM 120 Forests and Wilderness Exam | Questions And Answers Latest {2024- 2025}
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Before Harvesting - preform a timber cruise (estimation of timber stands volume)
Logging Plan - map (location, distribution, age, and volume), harvesting method (clear cut, strip cutting,
or selective harvest), most suitable access roads, cost of operation and probable gross income from
harvest sale
Harvesting-selective cutting - well suited to shade tolerant species, need very skillful logging, natural
reseeding, uneven age forest
Harvesting-clear cutting - even age forest, "industrial forest", well suited for intolerant species,
Harvesting-strip cutting - mature forest and cut strips throughout
Harvesting-seed tree - a silvicultural system, all timber is removed in one cut except for some scattered
mature trees, provide seed for next generation
Harvesting-shelterwood - leave seed trees in higher numbers to protect new seedlings, for seedlings
that do not germinate well in open areas
Pests - insects and diseases are biggest problem, Bark beetles, emerald ashboor
ghost acreage - 17.5% or our excess growth comes from substitution of ghost acreage wood from other
countries
Green certification - establishment of standards for sustainability of the wood, wildlife habitat, soil and
water, and other elements. Landowners and manufacturing companies that meet it put it on their
products
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