Forestry

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Across
  1. 2. Inner bark, just outward of the cambium, that translocates food made in the leaves down to the branches, twigs and roots.
  2. 6. The study of the interrelationships between living organisms and the environment.
  3. 7. Direction the slope faces.
  4. 9. A species-specific measure of actual or potential forest productivity expressed in terms of the average height of trees at a specified index or base age.
  5. 11. 66 ft. measurement unit, or four (4) rods long.
  6. 13. A woody plant which has a bole or trunk of at least 8 ft. which is well defined.
  7. 15. Trees which usually drop all of their leaves more or less at one time, usually in the fall.
  8. 16. Three hundred sixty (360) degrees on compass.
  9. 17. Cone bearing trees, usually evergreen.
  10. 18. Wood in a state of decay.
  11. 19. The principal water-conducting tissue and the chief supporting system of higher plants, composed of tracheids, fibers, and parenchyma.
  12. 20. A compass set up with four (4) 90 degree quadrants.
Down
  1. 1. A unit of land measure within the metric system. About 2.471 acres.
  2. 3. A point on a tree 4.5 ft. above the ground on the uphill side of a tree.
  3. 4. Fire set along a control line which burns back into the fire.
  4. 5. To cut and deliver logs aka logging.
  5. 8. Process by which plants manufacture food and oxygen.
  6. 10. The volume equivalent to a board one inch thick x twelve inches wide x twelve inches long.
  7. 12. To cut logs into specific lengths.
  8. 14. To completely encircle the bole of a tree with cuts that completely sever the cambium layer eventually killing the tree.
  9. 16. Ten square chains, or 208.7 ft. by 208.7 ft. square, or 43,560 square ft.