Across
- 2. A cultural treatment made to reduce stand density of trees primarily to improve growth, enhance forest health, or to recover potential mortality
- 5. A stand of trees of three or more distinct age classes, either intimately mixed or in small groups
- 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
- 9. A standing dead tree from which the leaves and most of the branches have fallen
- 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
- 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
- 16. A release treatment in stands not past the sapling stage that eliminates or suppresses undesirable vegetation regardless of crown position
- 18. The natural or artificial restocking of an area with trees
- 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
- 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
- 22. he action or process of making a copy of something
- 23. The area of the cross section of a tree stem, including the bark, generally at breast height
- 24. The planned interval between partial harvests in an uneven-aged stand
Down
- 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
- 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
- 4. A cutting method by which a new age class is created. The major methods are Clearcutting, Seed Tree, Shelterwood, Selection, and Coppice
- 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
- 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
- 10. A stand composed of two distinct age classes that are separated in age by more than 20 percent of rotation
- 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
- 13. Trees with crowns completely above the general level of the main canopy receiving full light from above and from all sides
- 15. The amount and compactness of foliage of the crowns of trees and/or shrubs
- 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
- 20. the foliar cover in a forest stand consisting of one or several layers
- 21. A tree between the size of a sapling and a mature tree