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- Prepare a field notebook, make a collection, and identify 15 species of
trees or wild shrubs in a local forested area. Include a written description
of:
- Identifying characteristics of leaf, twig, and fruit samples
- The habitat in which these trees or shrubs are found
- Chief ways each tree or shrub is used by human or wildlife
- The forest's successional stage, what its history has been, and what its
future is
- Do ONE of the following:
- Collect and identify wood samples of 10 species of trees. List several
ways each species of wood can be used.
- Find and examine several stumps or logs that show variations in growth
rate in their ring patterns. Prepare a field notebook describing their
location and discuss possible reasons for the variations.
- Be able to do the following:
- Describe contributions forests make to
- Our economy in the form of products
- Our social well-being
- Soil protection and increased fertility
- Clean water
- Clean air
- Wildlife
- Recreation
- Tell which watershed or other source your community relies on for its
water supply.
- Be able to describe what forest management means, including:
- Multiple-use management
- Even-aged and uneven-aged management and silvicultural systems
associated with each type
- Intermediate cuttings
- How prescribed burning and related forest management practices are used
- Do ONE of the following:
- Visit a managed public or private forest area with its manager or
someone familiar with it. Write a brief report describing:
- The type of forest
- The management objectives
- The forestry techniques used to achieve the objectives
- Take a trip to a logging operation or wood-using industrial plant and
write a brief report describing:
- The species and size of trees being harvested or used
- Where the trees are going to or coming from
- What products are made from the trees or at the plant
- How the products are made
- How the products are used
- How waste materials from the logging operation or plant are disposed
of or utilized
- Be able to do the following:
- Describe the damages to forests that result from:
- Wildfire
- Insects
- Tree disease
- Overgrazing
- Improper harvest
- Tell what can be done to reduce these damages.
- Tell what you should do if you discover a forest fire and how to control
it.
- Do ONE of the following:
- Assist in carrying out a project that meets one or more of these
objectives: timber stand improvement, watershed improvement, wildlife
habitat improvement, recreation area improvement, or range improvement.
- Take part in a forest fire prevention campaign in cooperation with your
local fire warden, forester, or counselor.
- Visit with one of more local foresters and write a brief report
including education, qualifications, career opportunities, and objectives
relating to forestry.
BSA Advancement ID#: 54
Source: Boy Scout Requirements, #33215D, revised 2001