FORESTRY
FOREST MANAGEMENT
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Question
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Which of the following forest practices directly manipulates stand density?
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prescribed burning
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reforestation
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thinning
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harvesting
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -It’s called mechanical thinning. Along with prescribed burns and hand removal of forest debris, mechanical thinning is one of the Forest Service’s most important tools to reduce fire risk in our national forests.
Detailed explanation-2: -traditional technique for determining wood density is volumetric method by extracting increment cores from trees and measuring the volume and mass of dry wood in laboratory.
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