Silviculture Art Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. A cultural treatment made to reduce stand density of trees primarily to improve growth, enhance forest health, or to recover potential mortality
  2. 5. A stand of trees of three or more distinct age classes, either intimately mixed or in small groups
  3. 7. The art and science of controlling the establishment, growth, composition, health, and quality of forests and woodlands to meet the diverse needs and values of landowners and society on a sustainable
  4. 9. A standing dead tree from which the leaves and most of the branches have fallen
  5. 12. A method of regenerating an even-aged stand in which a new age class develops beneath the moderated micro-environment provided by the residual trees
  6. 14. A method of regenerating an even-aged stand in which a new age class develops in a fully-exposed microclimate after removal, in a single cutting, of all trees in the previous stand
  7. 16. A release treatment in stands not past the sapling stage that eliminates or suppresses undesirable vegetation regardless of crown position
  8. 18. The natural or artificial restocking of an area with trees
  9. 19. Trees with crowns forming the general level of the main canopy in even-aged stands or, in uneven-aged stands, the main canopy of the tree's immediate neighbors, receiving full light from above and co
  10. 20. A method of regenerating a stand in which all trees in the previous stand are cut and the majority of regeneration is from sprouts or root suckers
  11. 22. he action or process of making a copy of something
  12. 23. The area of the cross section of a tree stem, including the bark, generally at breast height
  13. 24. The planned interval between partial harvests in an uneven-aged stand
Down
  1. 1. Trees, pole-sized or larger, retained in either a dispersed or aggregated manner after the regeneration period under the Clearcutting, Seed Tree, Shelterwood, or Coppice Methods
  2. 3. Trees with crowns extending into the lower portion of the main canopy of even-aged stands or, in uneven-aged stands, into the lower portion of the canopy formed by the tree's immediate neighbors, but
  3. 4. A cutting method by which a new age class is created. The major methods are Clearcutting, Seed Tree, Shelterwood, Selection, and Coppice
  4. 6. Trees with crowns extending above the general level of the main canopy of even-aged stands or, in uneven-aged stands, above the crowns of the tree's immediate neighbors, and receiving full light from
  5. 8. A stand of trees containing a single age class in which the range of tree ages in usually less than 20 percent of rotation
  6. 10. A stand composed of two distinct age classes that are separated in age by more than 20 percent of rotation
  7. 11. An indication of growing-space occupancy relative to a pre-established standard. Common indices of stocking are based on percent occupancy, basal area, relative density, and crown competition factor
  8. 13. Trees with crowns completely above the general level of the main canopy receiving full light from above and from all sides
  9. 15. The amount and compactness of foliage of the crowns of trees and/or shrubs
  10. 17. A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be distinguishable unit (see Mixed, P
  11. 20. the foliar cover in a forest stand consisting of one or several layers
  12. 21. A tree between the size of a sapling and a mature tree