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MICHIGAN FORESTS FOREVER TEACHERS GUIDE

 


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This index is an attempt to assemble as many words and concepts found in the Michigan Forests Forever website.  There is also a glossary of terms that lists many definitions.  This index is more detailed than the "Table of Contents" and is alphabetized, just like any other index you might come across.  Each listing goes to a place in the website. 

A
Abscission, leaf

Acclimation, winter trees
Acre
Activities, exercises
Aesthetics
Agonic line
All-aged forest
Annual rings
Anthocyanin
Azimuth


Balance, forest factors
Basal area, defined
Baseline, land survey
Bearing, compass
Benchmark-Website Matrix
Bergmann's Rule
Biomass Curriculum
Board foot, defined
Bowyer essay
Bucking

C
Cambium
Carbon dioxide
Careers
Carotenes
Carrying capacity
Case studies, forest management
CCC in Michigan
Cellulose
Chain, land survey
Chainsaw
Chlorophyll
Christmas trees
Classroom activities
Clearcutting
Color change, leaves
Commensalism
Community, plant
Conservation timeline
Consumers
Copyright, website
Cord, defined
County Forests
Crown size, photosynthesis
Cubic foot
Curriculum, high school units
Cycles
   annual
   irruptive
   nutrient
   population growth curve
   water
   wildlife

D
dbh, defined
Declination, compass
DNR, Michigan
Diameter distribution, trees
Disturbance, forest
Diversity
   tree species, Michigan

Dormancy

E
Economics, forestry
Edge effect
Energy allocation, trees
Essays, background
   Jim Bowyer on wood use
   W.C. Lowdermilk on soils
   Patrick Moore on tree solutions
   Don Smith on Forestry Future
Estivation
Even-aged forest
Exotic species

F
FAQs
Factors in management
Facultative species
Fecundity
Feller-buncher
Fire, forest regeneration
   jack pine
   prescribed
Food chain

Forest, defined  
   area, Michigan
   composition
   density
   diseases
   disturbance
   history
   insects
   fragmentation
   layers
   management guidelines
   management systems
   ownership, Michigan
   productivity, defined
   regeneration
   structure
   trends
   types, Michigan
   volume, Michigan
Forest Service, USDA
Forestry, defined
Forty, land survey
Forwarder
Fragmentation
Fun facts

G
GDP-forest industry
GDP-Michigan

Generalist, wildlife
Genetic improvement
Glaciers
Glucose
Great Lakes
Growth, tree
Growth vs. harvest
Guitars for stars

H
Habitat, wildlife
Hardpan
Harvest vs. growth
Harvest system, logging
Harvest volume, Lake States
Heartwood
Hibernation
History, forest
Home range
Hydrologic cycle

I
Indicator species
Industry forests
Initial point
Internet links
Invasive species
Iron Mule

K
Killing temperature

L
Land survey
Language Arts Benchmarks
Layering, reproductive
Legal descriptions
Link, land survey
Logging
Logging era
Logs
Longevity, trees
Lowdermilk essay (pdf)

M
Management systems
   clearcutting
   pruning
   release cutting
   salvage cutting
   selection
   shelterwood
   thinning
Map and compass
Map, U.S. forestlands
Maple syrup

Math Benchmarks

Meristem
Metes & Bounds

Michigan forest in the USA
Micro-environments
Migration
Mills, forest industry
Minerals
Moore essay
Multiple use
Mutualism
Mycorrhizae

N
National Forests
National Parks
National Wildlife Refuges
Necessities of life for trees
Non-timber forest products
North, true vs. magnetic
Number of trees, Michigan
Nutrients, soil
   cycles

O
Obligate species
Organic matter
Orienteering
Oxygen

P
Pacing
Paper mills
Parasitism
Parcelization
Parent material
PDF documents
Phloem

Photosynthesis
Plantations
Planting, trees

Population dynamics, wildlife
   Age Structure
   Lifespan
   Sex Ratio
   Natality & Mortality
   Interspecific Dynamics
   Intraspecific Dynamics
   Territoriality & Home Range
   Migrations
   Carrying Capacity

Predator-prey
Pre-settlement forests
Prescribed burning
Prime meridian
Private, non-industrial forests
Processor, logging
Producer, ecology
Producers, loggers
Pruning
Pulpsticks

Q
Quiz, forest fun

R
Range, land survey
Recreation
Reduce, reuse, recycle
References
Regeneration strategies, trees
Renewable resource
Respiration, trees
Root suckers

S
S-curve
Sapwood
Sawlogs
Sawmills
Section, land survey
Seeds, tree
Selection system
Sere, seral stage
Shelterwood system
Silviculture, defined

Skidder
Slasher
Snags
Social Studies Benchmarks
Soils
Snow roosting
Specialist, wildlife
Species abundance, trees
Springwood
Sprouts, tree
Stand, forest
Standard corners
Standard parallels
State Forests
State Parks
Stomate
Stump sprouts
Succession
   aspen
Stumpage
Suckers, root
Summerwood

T
Taxes, federal income
Ten percent rule, energy
Territoriality
Thinning
Timber harvest
Timber sales contract
Timber volume, Michigan
Timberland, defined

Tissues, trees
Trends, U.S. Forests
Tolerance, shade
Torpidity
Torus
Township
Tree, defined
   growth
   identification
   parts
   rings
   species list
Tree identification
   characteristics
   dichotomous keys
   Michigan species list
Trophic levels

U
Uneven-aged forest
Understory

V
Veneer
Video tapes

W
Weathering
Wildfire
Wildlife, defined
   wildlife
   game / non-game
   habitat
   population dynamics
   species lists
   threatened & endangered
   winter adaptations
Winter adaptations, trees
Winter adaptations, animals
Wood Energy
Wood products

Wood products, types
Wood products, Michigan
Wood use

X
Xylem

 

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