Graduate Take-Home Exam
Type your answers and conform to word limits. Return the completed exam by Friday, 22 February at 1:00 p.m. Please use an alias to identify your exam. The exam is open-book and open-notes.
Identify the most appropriate harvest-regeneration method (coppice without standards, clearcut, seed-tree, shelterwood, single-tree selection). [2 points each]
_______________ Very difficult to estimate growth and volume
_______________ Uneven-aged
_______________ Even-aged; can regenerate tolerant species
_______________ Controversial because of aesthetics, biological diversity
_______________ Generates relatively continuous cash flow from a stand
_______________ Rarely used with conifers; frequently used with angiosperms
"Less than 5% of the meat produced in the United States is raised on public lands."